Twenty years on, the deaths of French teenagers Zyed Benna, 17, and Bouna Traoré, 15, still weigh heavily in Clichy-sous-Bois, the Paris suburb where they were electrocuted while fleeing a police

Mass protests against austerity measures drew hundreds of thousands of participants in France on Thursday. The CGT union said more than 1 million people took part in demonstrations, although the figure provided by the Interior Ministry stood at 500,000.

French President Emmanuel Macron struggles to govern as France faces protests, political deadlock, and a rising far right.

France’s human rights record is under fire, with a new report warning that freedoms once taken for granted are being steadily chipped away.

A student holds a red flare as French school students block the entrance of the Lycee Turgot High School in Paris as part of a day of nationwide strikes and protests against the government and possible austerity cuts, France, October 2, 2025. REUTERS/Sarah ...

Strikes and protests roil France, pitting the streets against Macron and his new prime minister Protesters have hit France with transport strikes, demonstrations and blockades that are targeting the Paris Metro and other sectors

Lola’s mother, Delphine Daviet, said that after years of sobriety, her husband began drinking the day their daughter’s body was found and never stopped.

The French government is concerned about the violent repression against post-election protests in Cameroon and called the authorities to guarantee the safety and physical integrity of the country's citizens,

The father of a 12-year-old girl “died of grief” after his daughter was kidnapped, raped, tortured and then beheaded in France by a sadistic Algerian migrant, the girl’s mother told a court.