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A French policeman shot three people dead on a street near Paris in an apparent domestic dispute, before killing himself, media reports say.

Ten people suspected of using encrypted social networks to prepare a possible attack were arrested Tuesday in counterterrorism operations in France and Switzerland, according to French officials.

One of the five suspects was under government surveillance for radicalism, Interior Minister Gerrard Collomb said.

French judicial investigators have opened a full-scale inquiry into allegations of complicity in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, an official at the public prosecutor's office said on Monday.

French President Emmanuel Macron's fledgling La République en marche (LREM) party suffered a setback in Senate elections on Sunday as the conservative Les Républicains party strengthened its hold on the upper house of parliament.

FRENCH police widened their search on Wednesday for a 9-year-old girl who disappeared during a wedding in the Alps, combing wooded slopes and streams and questioning more potential witnesses.

Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, is getting an official role but without the title "first lady".

French police say a young girl was killed and several people were injured when a driver slammed his car into the sidewalk cafe of a pizza restaurant in a small town east of Paris.

According to French media, the vehicle hit several soldiers from Operation Sentinelle, a French military operation deployed in the aftermath of the 2015 terrorist attacks.

Macron's relationship with his wife is unusual.

Mr Macron has been accused by critics of hypocrisy after vowing to stamp out political nepotism

General François Lecointre was appointed France’s new military chief Wednesday. The 55-year-old career military officer will replace General Pierre de Villiers, who resigned after a row over budget cuts with President Emmanuel Macron.

Bauke Mollema won the 15th stage of the Tour de France on Sunday in a solo breakaway to Le Puy en Velay as Chris Froome retained the leader’s yellow jersey.

WITH major differences between them, President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron have met in Paris to focus on issues where they think they can take US-French relations forward.

PRESIDENT Trump’s visit to Paris got off to a chaotic start after the leader was separated from his motorcade arriving from Paris airport on Thursday morning.

Despite Macron’s desire to stand near Trump at the G20 family photo in Hamburg last week, as he pushed his way through the world leaders to take the place beside the US president, he has repeatedly criticized Trump’s recent decision to pull out of the Paris agreement on climate change.

French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed a radical overhaul of the country's government.

Will the UN Security Council succeed in passing a resolution to create a joint counter-terrorism force by five countries in Africa’s Sahel region? The project, in large part conceived and supported by France, faces steep resistance from Washington.

The centrist party of French President Emmanuel Macron looks on course to win a landslide victory following the first round of parliamentary elections.

Police have shot and injured a man who attacked officers with a hammer near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, injuring one of them. The attacker was also armed with two knives, according to French media.