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An African migrant, who allegedly wanted to return to his native country, entered a police station and attacked several police officers.

During the planned three and a half months of court proceedings in Paris, survivors and those mourning loved ones will recount the horrors inflicted along the beachfront of Nice on the night of July 14, 2016.

Bastille Day, 2016. Shortly after the end of a fireworks display, a 19-tonne (21 U.S.-ton) truck careered through the crowds for 2 kilometres (1¼ miles) like a snow plough, hitting person after person. The final death toll was 86, including 15 children and adolescents, while 450 others were injured…

On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) stated that America’s “so-called allies” in Europe — specifically France and Germany — need to step up and do “more to put pressure on Russia” and argued that

There is an elevated threat of terror attacks on French soil by Islamic extremists, France’s national anti-terrorism prosecutor warned Friday.

Jewish organisations in France suspect a possible antisemitic motive in the killing of a 44-year-old Jewish man near Paris.

Tax officials in France have turned to AI to scan for undeclared swimming pools in order to siphon off more tax revenue from the people.

A homeless Moroccan living in France illegally was arrested this week in the city of Limoges after allegedly robbing a blind woman near a railway station.

The French prime minister has announced that the government is dedicating an extra €1.5 billion to the state’s green agenda despite the country’s ongoing cost of living crisis.

The economic powerhouses of the European Union, France and Germany, both set records on Friday for electricity prices, as the West’s sanctions war with Russia continues to bite.

Two North African migrants, one already subject to a deportation order, were arrested this week after ramming a French police vehicle and injuring four officers.

President Emmanuel Macron has warned that the French public may react poorly to what he calls the “end of abundance” in France and Europe, as multiple crises brought about largely by political management wreak havoc on the continent.

A 13-year-old has been indicted by a French court for attempted murder after he allegedly pulled a knife on an educator driving him to an airport to avoid a flight to Senegal.

A senior minister in France has demanded that the country create 3,000 ‘green police’ posts in the face of global warming.

A man wielding a shotgun in the centre of the French city of Saint-Quentin was shot and injured this week after firing toward police while yelling “Allahu akbar!” Investigators have not ruled out a possible terror motive.

A man, said to suffer from some form of mental illness, was arrested by French police this week after bursting into a mosque while armed with a samurai-style katana sword.

A 28-year-old man from Mali has been indicted for raping prostitutes in the no-go Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis last month and robbing them afterwards.

An illegal migrant from Algeria who had only been in France for seven months was sentenced to four months in prison after robbing and chasing tourists on the Paris metro armed with a box cutter.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) – Mali’s foreign minister is accusing France of having colluded with the same Islamic extremists that it spent nearly a decade fighting until its troops departed earlier this week, an allegation sharply denied by the French government.

A French Catholic priest was held at gunpoint and robbed over the weekend while another priest was performing a baptism ceremony. 

A French mayor backed a proposal to allow non-EU foreigners to vote in local elections and stand for office, citing “social justice.”

A Moroccan man was arrested by French police while carrying the head of his father, who he is believed to have decapitated with a knife. 

Footballer Benjamin Mendy, a defender for top English club Manchester City, is on trial accused of raping women as young as 17 in “panic rooms” at his countryside mansion.  

Europe has been suffering through a drought of historic proportions, climate activists are taking aim at golf courses.

A 25-year-old woman claims to have been dragged off the street in Paris and raped earlier this week by a man she described as having an “African-type” appearance in what is just the latest public rape attack within a week.

French President Emmanuel Macron has come under fire for using a gas-guzzling jet ski while demanding citizens curtail their energy use.

French female warrior Joan of Arc has been cast as a gender-neutral character with “they/them” pronouns at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

A knifeman who threatened officers with his weapon was shot dead at Charles de Gaulle airport Wednesday morning.

Germany can’t close its nuclear plants quick enough, but France is working to keep theirs online, temporarily setting aside green rules.

The Administrative Court of Paris halted the deportation of Imam Hassan Iquioussen on Friday after he had been set to leave the country for hate preaching on the order of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.

France will be creating an “Ambassador for LGBT+ rights” by the end of the year, as well as funding for ten new “LGBT+ centres”, French prime minister Elisabeth Borne announced on Thursday.

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin slammed members of the far-left party France Insoumise, who he accused of defending a radical Islamist imam set for deportation from France.

An overwhelming majority of French are behind deporting radical imams who give sermons contrary to the republican values of France. 

China’s ambassador to France said the people of Taiwan need to be “re-educated” after the island nation is “reunified” with the mainland.

A police station was attacked this week with Molotov cocktails and mortar fireworks, with officers assaulted while trying to pursue suspects.

Police and firefighters in the French city of Limoges were subjected to attacks by Molotov cocktails and mortar fireworks.