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🔴Live: France’s hung parliament votes on new National Assembly president France’s new National Assembly meets for the first time Thursday following snap legislative elections that failed to create a majority. Parliamentarians will elect the chamber's new president, a role that has taken on...

‘Fanatical colonialist’: The uneasy legacy of the French founder of modern Olympics Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the controversial French founder of the modern Olympics, is proving to be a divisive figure for organisers of the Paris Games. Yet while some deplore his sexist and colonialist remarks...

Abbé Pierre, France's best-known humanitarian priest, accused of sexual assault The late French humanitarian priest Henri Grouès, better known as Abbé Pierre, has been accused of having sexually assaulted a number of women throughout his life, according to the charities that he himself founded...

French troops out in force to secure Paris Olympics ceremonies An 800-strong deployment of French troops made a show of strength around Paris's river Seine on Wednesday as France prepares for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games next week.

Pros and cons of a ‘technocratic government’ that could end France's political stalemate The snap legislative elections called by French President Emmanuel Macron left the country with a hung parliament and no dominant political bloc in power in the lower-house National Assembly for the first...

French security services arrest far-right extremist over suspected Paris Olympics plot French security services have arrested an 18-year-old far-right extremist suspected to be plotting attacks during the upcoming Paris Olympics. The young man, who was the administrator of a Telegram group...

'Joy turned to shame': French Greens leader Tondelier urges end to left-wing infighting over PM pick As the French National Assembly prepares for its first session after snap elections, Greens party leader Marine Tondelier on Wednesday urged the left bloc to rally together to reach a consensus...

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo set to swim in Seine ahead of Olympics The Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo will swim in the Seine to show it's clean for the Paris Olympics' outdoor swimming events. Despite a €1.4 billion investment to prevent sewage leaks, the Seine's water quality remains questionable...

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo swims in the Seine nine days before Olympic Games kickoff Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a long-awaited dip in the River Seine on Wednesday morning in a bid to prove the water is clean enough to host the outdoor swimming events at the Olympics later this month.

Paris airport staff call off pre-Olympics strike after reaching deal Paris airport workers have called off a strike that would have disrupted travel just ahead of the Olympic Games after reaching a deal on bonuses, labour and management said Tuesday.

French PM Attal poised to assume caretaker role amid parliamentary deadlock French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal was on Tuesday poised to resign but lead a caretaker government with restricted powers until after the Paris Olympics amid parliamentary deadlock in France. The leftist alliance New...

Will the Seine River be clean in time for Olympic athletes to swim in? The 2024 Paris Olympics are less than a fortnight away and questions still abound over the state of the Seine River – whether it will be safe for athletes to compete in the triathlon and marathon swimming events. However...

Tens of thousands to welcome Mbappé as he officially joins Real Madrid Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu stadium will be packed to the rafters on Tuesday as tens of thousands cheer on French superstar striker Kylian Mbappé, formerly of Paris Saint-Germain, as he officially joins Real Madrid. Describing...

France enters high-stakes week in politics as leftist bloc sets sights on speaker’s chair France is preparing for another week of political maneuvering as the newly elected National Assembly meets for the first time this Thursday. With the leftist New Popular Front alliance still divided over a...

Artists, chefs, garbage collector among hundreds carrying the Olympic torch through Paris Hundreds of people from from a wide variety of backgrounds have carried the Olympic torch through the French capital for two days of celebrations before the Summer Games kick off on July 26.

France's left-wing parties struggling to form govt, says leader of Socialists France's hastily assembled left-wing alliance the New Popular Front are struggling to form a government in the wake of legislative elections earlier this month that left them well short of a majority, the head of the...

Macron deplores the ‘disastrous spectacle’ given by his camp this week French President Emmanuel Macron lashed out at his allies on Friday in a meeting at the presidential palace, saying that they had made a "disastrous spectacle" of themselves since the snap parliamentary election. Participants...

French left propose Huguette Bello as compromise PM pick, but Socialists are on the fence As France's left-wing alliance scrambles to agree on a candidate for prime minister after taking the most parliamentary seats in the July 7 snap election, the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party has...

French sports minister swims in Seine in splashy boost for Paris Olympics organisers With the water quality of the River Seine meeting required standards over the past few days, French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera on Saturday swam in the river in a boost for Olympics organisers ahead of...

Two French rugby players formally charged with aggravated rape in Argentina Two French international rugby players were charged with aggravated rape after a 39-year-old woman accused them of assaulting her in a Mendoza hotel room following a match. The men deny the accusation, but according to...