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Two-far activists go on trial in Paris on Monday over the shooting of Argentine rugby star Federico Martin Aramburu. Loik Le Priol and Romain Bouvier have been charged with murder and attempted murder respectively, and risk up to life in jail if they are found guilty.
Niger's government has widened its blame to unnamed neighbours a week after the assault on a military base.
Once so deeply unpopular he had to give up running for a second term in office, former French president François Hollande has slipped back into the conversation ahead of next year’s Élysée Palace race, hoping voters put off by squabbling candidates will come to see him as a safe – if unexciting – pair of hands after a decade of Emmanuel Macron’s ‘disruptive’ presidency.
On April 18th and May 2nd next year - France will be voting to elect a new president to replace Emmanuel Macron. The country's latest opinion polls predict a victory for Marine le Pen of the Far-right National Rally. Although the election is still over seven months away, many potential candidates have already thrown their hats into the ring. But do any of them stand a chance of beating the far right? Our guest Eleanor Beardsley from National Public Radio answers that question.
Weeks before President Javier Milei visits France, scrutiny has grown around an Argentina-run university residence in Paris supposed to promote peaceful coexistence but which activists say instead restricts lodger freedoms and hosts European far-right figures. Paris city officials have demanded the foreign ministry investigate Argentina House, one of dozens of homes run by foreign nations or French institutions on an international campus in the French capital. The Cite Universitaire campus, or...
France is facing pressure to consent to the International Court of Justice taking up a decades-old territorial feud with Vanuatu, after Paris firmly reasserted its sovereignty over two strategically vital Pacific islands. Vanuatu filed an application with the UN’s top court earlier this week seeking recognition of its claim over the uninhabited Matthew and Hunter islands. However, the case cannot proceed without French consent, prompting Vanuatu to warn it would seek a UN General Assembly...
French President Emmanuel Macron met Britain’s new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, for official talks at 10 Downing Street. The meeting came a day after the pair were joined by King Charles and Queen Camilla at the British Museum for a preview of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition in London. Macron is the first EU leader to meet Burnham. Talks are expected to cover relations between Britain and the European Union, support for Ukraine, and migrant crossings in the English Channel.
The Bayeux Tapestry may have brought them together — but migrant crossings and Ukraine are likely to dominate the agenda as UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Emmanuel Macron hold their first formal talks on Thursday. The two leaders met for the first time on Wednesday evening at a preview of the tapestry’s exhibition at the British Museum, alongside King Charles III. The occasion was hailed by both sides as a symbol of improving relations between Britain and France. For more, FRANCE 24’s Stuart Norval is joined by our London correspondent Bénédicte Paviot and FRANCE 24’s International Affairs Editor Philip Turle.