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A transgender porn performer and prostitute filmed themselves selling sex in the toilet of Paris City Hall after being invited by the Mayor.

A Tunisian migrant attacked French police with a knife in southern France this week, yelling the phrase “Allahu akbar!”

An Africa-born French customs official alleged to have recently bought a huge home in his native Senegal is one of a dozen arrested as part of a cocaine trafficking bust by police.

PARIS (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron insisted on the need for raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 in order to make the French pension system financially sustainable in the coming years, in a letter to workers’ unions released Friday.

The British government has agreed to pay Emmanuel Macron’s France nearly half a billion pounds over the next three years to tackle the boat migrant crisis, despite the fact all previous payments have failed to reduce numbers and no deal being struck on turning the boats back.

France is to demand Britain give it even more money to deal with boat migrants crossing the English Channel.

The city of Bordeaux has awarded a local teenager an award after he prevented a young teen from being raped by an Algerian migrant. 

An 18-year-old young man was kidnapped, beaten and thrown in the Seine river after being lured to an area by the brother of his girlfriend.

Demonstrators marched across France on Tuesday in a new round of protests against the government’s plan to raise the retirement age to 64.

French state-backed media says American conservatives, not LGBT activists, are to blame for the “culture war” over drag queen events aimed at small children.

PARIS (AP) – Roads blocked, oil refineries disrupted, planes grounded and trains halted – unions are threatening to shut down France’s economy this week in what they hope is their toughest riposte yet to President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age.

Police in Paris are searching for an “African type” man accused of vandalising and desecrating a Roman Catholic church in central Paris, who they say has a prior history of church attacks.

Populist French Senator Stéphane Ravier faces a criminal trial after publishing a tweet in January of last year in which he stated that “immigration kills the youth of France.”

Police in the French city of Bordeaux have had to launch a specialised brigade to tackle minor migrant criminals, with around a third of burglaries and nearly half of pickpocketing now committed by migrant minors, for example.

A 25-year-old illegal migrant from Senegal was arrested in Marseilles after allegedly raping a 64-year-old woman who had allowed him to come into her home from the street.

Macron has vowed to go ahead with the bill, which aims to raise the country’s minimum retirement age, despite nationwide demonstrations and strikes and opinion polls consistently showing a majority of French people oppose the change.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that he will be reducing the number of French troops stationed in Africa while turning military bases into “academies”.

Muhammad was the most popular baby name in the Irish city of Galway last year, the country’s government has claimed.

A man was killed at a railway station in a Paris suburb this week after being crushed by a train while he and an accomplice were trying to rob a resisting victim.

France’s César Awards — the country’s equivalent of the Oscars — was disrupted Friday evening by a climate change protestor who crashed the stage in the middle of the live national broadcast.

Emmanuel Macron was under fire on Friday for handing billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos the country’s highest order of merit.

Baroness Nadine de Rothschild, the widow of deceased banker Edmond de Rothschild, has denounced the MeToo movement, attacking it as making men “soft” and women “charmless”.

A woman in France defended herself against a would-be rapist last weekend in the early morning by biting a piece of the migrant’s tongue. 

A high school student was arrested for allegedly stabbing a female teacher in front of other students in a classroom in southwestern France.

A British couple was handed prison sentences for joining a migrant smuggling ring and bringing illegals to the UK hidden in couches.

The number of alleged anti-“LGBTQ+” attacks in Europe spiked in 2022, a year that saw the highest number of asylum seekers arrive on the continent since the 2016 migrant crisis.

French President Emmanuel Macron said that he does not support the policy of trying to force regime change in Russia against Vladimir Putin. 

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – A week before the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin’s U.N. ambassador claimed that the West is driven by its determination to destroy Russia and declared: “We had no choice other than to defend our country – defend it from you, to defend our identity and our future.”

The United States showed off its F-35 fighter, B-1B bomber, and other advanced warplanes at an air show in Bengaluru this week to tempt India away from its long-standing, and increasingly awkward, reliance on Russian military hardware.

The depiction of French soldiers as trying to steal ‘vibranium’ has prompted fury from the country’s real-life armed forces minister.

Four young teenagers were arrested in Lyon this week after allegedly sexually abusing and robbing two women in a local park as the women were out jogging at the time.

Some demonstrators walked as families through the French capital’s Place de la Republique and carried emotional banners. “I don’t want my parents to die at work,” read one, held by a teenage boy.

Two Brazilian tourists were subjected to sexual assault and rape near Paris’ iconic Eiffel Tower as police are searching for suspects. 

Court sentenced six members of a people smuggling network operating in the English Channel to between two and five years in prison.

Migrant with a series of convictions arrested after allegedly trying to rape a 13-year-old girl, being stopped in his tracks by another teen. 

A woman living in Paris who allegedly set a fire to “annoy” her neighbour is on trial this week after the fire spread, killing ten people.