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French former president Nicolas Sarkozy lost his appeal against a 2021 conviction for corruption and influence peddling at the Paris Court of Appeals on Wednesday. The court upheld a three-year prison sentence. It said two of those years…

France’s President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that his country had “opened the door” to training Ukrainian fighter pilots, even if he excluded sending any war planes to Kyiv. Macron spoke a day after Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky…

France charges 3 top advisors to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity, in connection to the deaths of two French Syrian men. The trial, the first in France related to the…

France’s ministry of energy transition has cut power from its offices for four days and asked employees to work from home, Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher has revealed. The move, which was also implemented by the country’s ministry of…

Paris has witnessed a second day of violent unrest after Friday's deadly attack on the city's Kurdish community. Protesters who gathered on Saturday overturned cars, setting some on fire, and hurled objects at police. Officers responded…

His Majesty, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and French President, Emmanuel Macron, held talks on Wednesday, in Jordanian capital Amman. The meeting discussed bilateral relations between the two nations, ways to enhance them, and improve the…

Paris reopened its most iconic airport terminal as France prepares to welcome millions of visitors for the 2024 summer Olympics while the travel industry struggles to recover from the fallout of the pandemic. Aeroports de Paris, which…

U.S. President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Thursday agreed to continue to support Ukraine's defense against Russia's aggression, while affirming the importance of maintaining peace over Taiwan, a self-ruled…

French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted Tuesday that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for respecting Ukrainian territorial integrity and sovereignty and stopping escalation of the war in Ukraine as they met in Indonesia's Bali. In…

It started several weeks ago at refineries. Then it spread to nuclear plants. And finally, on Tuesday, railway and postal workers, nurses, some teachers and even high school students across France, at least for the day, joined a snowballing…