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15 July 2024

  • Emmanuel Macron at a Bastille Day parade in Paris, 14 July 2024: he is seen in the centre of the picture in a street with lines of soldiers in ceremonial uniform and plumed hats facing him. He wears a dark blue suit with shirt and tie and is positioned so he appears to be looking down the ranks from a height.

    France: failure to agree on new PM puts leftwing coalition in ‘stalemate’

  • Recycle and reuse … the Georges Vallerey pool, to be used for swimming training, has been fitted with a new retractable timber roof.

    Plastic-bottle seats and wooden pools: can Paris deliver the leanest, greenest Olympics yet?

14 July 2024

  • Emma Beddington

    Raging, radical and ready for change: France’s angry green women are an inspiration to us all

    Emma Beddington
    From Marine Tondelier to Mélanie Vogel, they are whip-smart, articulate and unafraid to show emotion. It’s astonishing to feel so inspired by politicians, writes Emma Beddington

13 July 2024

  • The National Assembly with Venus de Milo in the colours of the Olympic Games, which open in Paris in two weeks.

    France contemplates chaos after the general election with no clear winner and the Olympics just weeks away

  • A family photo of a young girl and a man wearing a sombrero in a garden, on a red background

    The story of a heat death: David went to work in his new job on a French building site. By the end of the day he was dead

12 July 2024

  • police escort two men

    Two French rugby players charged with aggravated rape in Argentina

    Prosecutors in Mendoza say players met the victim at a nightclub and violently assaulted her in a hotel room
  • an orange rescue vessel in the sea

    Four people drown trying to cross Channel near Boulogne-sur-Mer

    At least 56 people survive after early morning rescue involving French coastguard, navy boat and helicopter

    • ‘It might actually be cool’: wary Parisians seduced by prospect of Olympics

    • Disinformation networks ‘flooded’ X before EU elections, report says

    • Risk of far right gaining power has not gone away, warns French Green leader

11 July 2024

  • Television images on BFM channel showed a dark plume of smoke rising from the spire.

    Rouen Cathedral fire brought under control in Normandy

  • The spire of the gothic cathedral of the French city of Rouen in Normandy has caught fire during renovation works

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    Rouen’s cathedral spire on fire during renovation work – video

  • Alexander Hurst

    Political rifts have left the US haunted by fear of civil war. Here’s how France can do better

    Alexander Hurst
  • Demonstrators pass the French Assemblée National on a march against antisemitism

    Europeans are experiencing a ‘wave of antisemitism’, survey finds

10 July 2024

  • Rhys Webb earned 40 caps for Wales and also made two British & Irish Lions appearances

    Former Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb given four-year ban for doping positive

  • Emmanuel Macron

    Macron calls on parties to ‘rise to the occasion’ and form coalition

  • Philippe Auclair

    Citizen Mbappé taking on far right lends pride to France’s Euros exit

    Philippe Auclair
  • FRANCE-OVERSEAS-NCALEDONIA-POLITICS-INDEPENDENTIST<br>Independantist and nationalist candidate Emmanuel Tjibaou, the son of Kanak independentist leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou, speaks during a campaign meeting ahead of France's crunch legislative elections in Mont-Dore, on the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, on June 26, 2024. France's political forces are to make a final bid for votes in crunch legislative elections that could see the far right take control of the government in a historic first. (Photo by Theo Rouby / AFP) (Photo by THEO ROUBY/AFP via Getty Images)

    ‘Left by the wayside’: New Caledonia MP vows to take Indigenous frustrations to Paris

9 July 2024

  • Marine Le Pen

    French investigators open inquiry into finances of 2022 Le Pen campaign

  • Manuel Bompard and Jean-Luc Melenchon are surrounded by journalists as they arrive at the National Assembly in Paris, 9 July 2024. Bompard has one hand raised and appears to be addressing someone. He is in his late 30s and has receding dark hair; he wears an open-necked white shirt and black jacket; Mélenchon is in his early 70s and has short grey hair and glasses; he wears a royal blue suit, white shirt and red tie.

    France’s aversion to coalitions means any new government risks early collapse

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