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Breaking: Emmanuel Macron picks Attal, 34, as France’s youngest PM France’s next prime minister is set to be Gabriel Attal,…

French President Emmanuel Macron vowed on Sunday that 2024 will be a year of French pride and hope, marked by the Paris Olympic Games and the re-opening of Notre-Dame Cathedral, in his traditional New Year’s Eve address from the Élysée Palace in the French capital.

The two victims killed in the avalanche were officially named.

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The iconic landmark normally sees about 20,000 visitors per day this time of year.

France’s Health Minister Aurelien Rousseau resigned as the government of President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday sought to quell a party revolt over the passing of tough new immigration legislation backed by the far right. Following 18 months of wrangling over one of the flagship reforms of Macron’s second term, the French parliament passed the controversial legislation endorsed by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) Tuesday. Expected to address the reform in a television interview on Wednesday evening, Macron “will need to explain why he thinks this law was so important to pass,” FRANCE 24’s Clovis Casali said.

A group of French lawmakers struck a tentative deal on Tuesday on a contested bill that will toughen immigration laws and has highlighted the difficulties for President Emmanuel Macron of running the country with no majority in parliament. 

French lawmakers and senators prepared to hammer out a compromise over a beleaguered immigration bill on Monday as President Emmanual Macron’s government hoped to salvage what is seen as a flagship reform of his second term. French authorities have been seeking to push through legislation to harden France’s immigration law, but members of the right-wing and left-wing opposition last week joined forces to vote down the draft law without even debating the measures. A mixed parliamentary commission consisting of seven upper house senators and seven lower house lawmakers was expected to meet from 5:00 pm (1600 GMT) Monday in a bid to thrash out a compromise text. FRANCE 24’s Catherine Norris Trent reports.

British teen Alex Batty expected back in UK in next few days Alex Batty is due back in the UK…

The kidnapped teenager’s grandmother and her husband say they have spent the last six years gripped by fear for his safety.

Six years after his kidnapping during a holiday in Spain, Alex Batty, aged 11, was found in Revel on Wednesday.

Teachers say they are ‘dealing with vindictive parents who prefer to believe their children than us’.

French artificial intelligence start-up Mistral AI announced Sunday it had raised 385 million euros ($414 million), becoming one of Europe’s two AI leaders.

Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne on Friday visited the French overseas island of Mayotte, the poorest place in the European Union, amid a growing water crisis. Due to a drawn-out drought compounded by years of underinvestment and water mismanagement, the island’s inhabitants have access to water only one every three days.

Police believe 48 people – including a number of women over 90 – were offered phoney bedbug control services

France trade deficit lifted in October by easing energy costs In October 2023, France’s trade deficit, which is the difference…

The suspect converted to Islam in 2015 after being radicalised online by an ISIS supporter.

An assailant targeted ‘passers-by’ in the Quai de Grenelle area of France’s capital, according to interior minister Gérald Darmanin.

Some 200 far-right demonstrators gathered in Paris on Friday night to protest the death of a French teenager who died last month after being stabbed during what appeared to be a brawl that broke out at a village dance. Although the circumstances of the incident remain unclear, the far right has framed it as a symbol of France’s increasingly insecure society amid immigration.

It all started with the tragic death of a teenage boy attending a village dance in southern France. Although the circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear, members of France’s ultra-right immediately blamed it on “anti-French” sentiment, descending on the region en masse to avenge his death.

New documents surfaced in September indicating that Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel may have played a double role during World War II, serving not only as an informant for the Nazis but also as a member of the French Resistance. But a historian who has analysed the new evidence says he has “serious doubts” about her alleged membership in La Résistance, suggesting the French fashion icon may have used the documents to restore her reputation after the war.

Samuel Paty: Six French teenagers on trial over teacher’s murder The trial of a murdered school teacher starts today, with…

Several thousand people marched in France on Saturday to condemn violence against women on the international day to combat the scourge.

Two migrants die crossing Channel in small boat Two migrants died after their small boat got into difficulty as they…

Holding olive branches and white banners, French performers from different religious and ethnic backgrounds led thousands of people on a silent march through central Paris on Sunday to call for peace between Israelis and Palestinians and unity in France.