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France has launched an investigation into the reappearance of the website that enabled Dominique Pelicot.

A report from France’s health watchdog has raised concerns about a decision by the country’s development agency to provide a €350 million loan to an overseas phosphate fertiliser company.

On April 20, the French Jewish organization Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP) filed a complaint against “persons unknown” with France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office, the Parquet national antiterroriste (PNAT), alleging complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

The investigation in France marks a significant step toward holding financial institutions accountable for the illicit transfer of wealth that worsened Lebanon’s historic economic collapse.

A man who sold over 44,000 fake doctor’s notes to help others get out of work and still get paid has been busted.

The factory that produces the most pollution in France is using more coal than ever. In August 2025, ArcelorMittal Dunkirk took delivery of several thousand tonnes of coal from an extremely toxic mine in Mozambique.

A Paris court on Monday convicted French cement giant Lafarge and eight former executives of financing terrorism, ruling they paid jihadist groups millions to keep a Syrian plant running during the country’s civil war.

Number of tickets to win Tête de Femme will be capped at 120,000 and proceeds will go to Alzheimer’s research.

Marine Le Pen dined with LVMH chief Bernard Arnault and other influential French corporate leaders on Tuesday, a meeting that offers another indication that her far-right party, the National Rally, has become a mainstream movement that is no longer ostracized by the business community.

The Russian military intelligence-linked cyber group APT28 (Fancy Bear) is hacking routers made by popular manufacturers in order to steal passwords to mailboxes and other online services.

The TGV was carrying 243 passengers when it collided with a truck at a road crossing on Tuesday morning.

More than 70 children from various conflict zones whose ages were disputed by the Home Office have been held in detention centres in the UK in preparation for forced removal.

A Paris appeals court has blocked the extradition of the late dictator’s 33-year-old daughter, who was arrested last fall on charges of laundering her father’s illicit wealth.

Nearly 200 children, including pupils from a British private school, have fallen ill in a major sickness outbreak at a French ski resort.

Negotiations to secure a new £650 million agreement with France to help prevent small-boat crossings in the Channel have hit a standstill.

Twenty-two people went on trial in France on Monday on charges of murder and other serious crimes centered on members of a Masonic lodge accused of running hit squads.

French prosecutors are set to unveil money laundering charges against Dimitry Klyuev, an alleged mastermind of the Magnitsky Affair, the Russian tax fraud that triggered a global anticorruption movement, according to court documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

In August 2024, two white men escaped the sweltering heat of Chad’s capital, N’Djamena, in the lobby of the Hôtel de l’Amitie, a stone’s throw from the National Museum.

In the Mediterranean port city of Marseille three youths aged 15 to 17 were killed in 2025 in cases linked to drug trafficking.

British warship HMS Dragon has reached the eastern Mediterranean and is set to commence its operations to support Cyprus tonight, confirmed the Defence Secretary.

Jospin, who served as head of government from 1997 to 2002 before being defeated by the far right in the presidential elections, has died at the age of 88, his family announced on Monday.

As former French President Nicolas Sarkozy appeals his historic conviction in the 2007 Libyan campaign financing scandal, anti-corruption advocates are highlighting the devastating human cost behind the crime.

A thorough investigation into a pro-Russia outlet managed by a German far-right figure took reporters to a remote village in Bulgaria and the offices of the state security service in Moscow.