French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has accused Algeria of “trying to humiliate France” after the North African country refused to admit one of its nationals who was being deported.

The website enabled Dominique Pelicot to recruit dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife for years, authorities say.

Dutch paint and coatings maker AkzoNobel plans to lay off of up to 211 staff in France, about 16% of its workforce in the country, under a reorganisation plan, it said on Friday.

A defiant Nicolas Sarkozy told a Paris court on Thursday that allegations of illegal Libyan financing of his successful 2007 presidential bid were a "conspiracy" and that not a single cent of Libyan cash would ever be found in his campaign.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right party, has died at 96. Anti-immigration and nationalist ideas that propelled his decades of popularity remain ascendant in the country, across Europe and beyond.

For years, the far-right National Rally tried to distance itself from Mr. Le Pen’s racist and antisemitic remarks. But after his death Tuesday, it hailed him as a visionary.

Authorities in northern France said Thursday two people have died and 20 others were injured from a cold snap bringing snow and ice across northern Europe. One of those killed slipped on a pavement and violently banged their head,

Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau said the government must be as ambitious as possible with budget cuts to tackle the “chronic sickness” of the country’s public finances and restore economic confidence after months of political upheaval.

Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front party who tapped into blue-collar anger over immigration and globalisation and revelled in minimising the Holocaust, died on Tuesday aged 96.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot says the European Union (EU) will stand firm in its alliance in the face of repeated comments from President-elect Trump about the U.S. acquiring Greenland

A leader of one of the French Alps regions hosting the 2030 Winter Games is in Utah to tour the state's Olympic venues. Here's what he hopes to learn