With a year to go to the Olympics, Paris is in the final phase of a historic clean-up which will soon see swimmers and divers back in the River Seine.
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France, in Western Europe, encompasses medieval cities, alpine villages and Mediterranean beaches. Paris, its capital, is famed for its fashion houses, classical art museums including the Louvre and monuments like the Eiffel Tower.
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Calm has returned to La Grande Borne. Local mafia again exercise lazy control from the doorways of this vast housing estate south of Paris; their guns on show, their faces hidden.
Emmanuel Macron has accused protesters of exploiting the death of a teenager shot by police at point-blank range.
Prosecutors have begun piecing together what happened before the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M by a police officer.
The blast, in the Fifth Arrondissement of the French capital, started a blaze that firefighters quickly brought under control. The origin of the explosion, which critically injured four people, was unclear.
Ohio officers, who conducted a botched raid of rapper’s home, are suing for invasion of privacy and emotional distress
Largely peaceful protests are marred by outbreaks of violence as unions claim 3.5 million turned out, while authorities put number at just over 1 million
Police clashed with over a million demonstrators opposed to President Macron’s pension reform
One of the world’s most influential countries, France, has been brought to its knees by days of violent protests.
French president fends off efforts to halt his pension revamp and topple his administration
Trade unions have led strikes against proposed rise in pension age, which is now likely to become law
President Emmanuel Macron saw his decision to push through a change in the retirement age as necessary, but the price may be high.
After President Emmanuel Macron pushed his unpopular pension bill through Parliament without a vote, demonstrations about the changes broke out again.
At least six people have been injured in a mass stabbing at a major train station in Paris.
Two people are dead and several others are injured after a gunman opened fire in Paris.
Air France and Airbus are being tried on charges of involuntary manslaughter after 228 people died in the 2009 crash
France has repatriated 35 children and 16 mothers from camps in Syria where family members of suspected Islamic State group jihadists have been held, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Less than two months after he was re-elected president, Emmanuel Macron has lost control of the French National Assembly following a strong performance by a left alliance and the far right.
President’s party and allies are projected to remain the largest coalition after Sunday’s vote but without the seats to form a majority, a rebuke of his pro-business agenda
Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally, or RN) made historic gains in Sunday’s French parliamentary election second round, on track to win 90 seats according to projections by Ipsos – a score way beyond the record gains polls predicted. Emmanuel Macron’s centrist bloc, meanwhile, underperformed polling expectations and fell well short of a majority – leaving a deal with conservative Les Républicains (LR) as his best hope for governing unencumbered.