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Under pressure from the UK, France’s govt is preparing to give a freer hand to police patrols that were filmed slashing boats already.

French MEP Marion Maréchal has claimed that she is facing “judicial jihad” after being sued for defamation by an organisation which runs an Islamic school over her claims that it is tied to the radical Muslim Brotherhood network.

President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele said on Sunday that his country is willing to send deported illegal migrants detained at the CECOT mega-prison to France after Mexican-American fashion designer Willy Chavarria held a performance “inspired” by the detainees at the Paris Fashion Week show.

French court sentenced seven Afghans and two Iraqis to jail over the fatal capsizing of a boat carrying would-be asylum seekers.

Two people were killed and 17 injured during torrential storms in France that toppled trees and caused parliament’s roof to spring a leak.

Prime Minister François Bayrou’s government is facing the prospect of being toppled like its predecessor, with the Socialist Party vowing to launch a motion of no confidence after negotiations broke down over President Macron’s controversial pension reforms.

The increasingly multicultural ‘Fête de la Musique’ festival in France was marred by wanton violence, clashes with police, looting, and hundreds of people believed to have been victims of the growing trend of non-consensual injections otherwise known as “evening bites”.

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged the Islamist regime in Tehran to demonstrate “restraint” from retaliating in response to the American bombings of three nuclear sites in Iran over the weekend.

Iranian officials vowed to get revenge for this weekend’s U.S. airstrikes against their illegal nuclear program by launching terrorist attacks, and pledged to resume enriching uranium as quickly as possible.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer appeared the most willing of America’s allies in Europe to align himself with President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Iranian nuclear sites, while fellow European leaders stressed for calm and a return to talks.

A 55-year-old Frenchman suspected of commissioning online pedophile crimes in Colombia has been arrested and charged in France, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Saturday.

The UK, France, and Germany met with Iran on Friday and said they’d urged Tehran to open dialogue with the United States for peace.

Iran’s foreign minister arrived Friday for talks with top European diplomats in Geneva after war erupted between Israel and Iran.

Foreign ministers planning to meet Iranian counterpart on Friday in a bid to persuade the country to give up its nuclear ambitions for peace. 

A top global arms fair erected black walls around Israeli exhibitors overnight before the event opened.

French President Emmanuel Macron warned that regime change in Iran could lead to “chaos”, as officials in France and Germany expressed concerns over potential Tehran-linked terror attacks in Europe amid the Middle East conflict.

Trump said France’s Macron was “publicity seeking” for speculating on the purpose of his early departure from the G7 conference in Canada. 

Trump dropped the deal on the floor when attempting to present it to the press, sending Starmer scrabbling. 

French President Emmanuel Macron’s first trip to Greenland, the strategic Arctic island coveted by U.S. President Donald Trump, is aimed at shoring up Europe’s political backing for Denmark and its semiautonomous territory.

An academic has appealed to leaders to take action to minimise the impact of civil war, which he warns has become likely in Western states.

Several European leaders urged Israel and Iran to de-escalate after Jerusalem launched a “pre-emptive” strike.

French society is devolving into a “barbarian factory”, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau warned after the fatal stabbing of a female education assistant outside of a school in Nogent on Tuesday.

A 14-year-old boy was arrested on Tuesday following the fatal stabbing of a female education assistant at a middle school in northeastern France.

A record number of people joined the famed pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres this weekend, bolstered by growing support among young people and interest in the Traditional Latin Mass.

French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Greenland next weekend, the Danish prime minister’s office said Saturday – a visit by a high-profile European Union leader in the wake of U.S. expressions of interest in taking over the mineral-rich Arctic island.

“June the sixth is the price of freedom”,  Pete Hegseth said at the American War Cemetery in Normandy, France on Friday morning. 

The first cohort of young men charged in the violent riots in Paris over the weekend were all let off without any prison time, despite all having admitted to attacking police officers and President Macron’s vow to bring those involved to justice.

Nearly sixty per cent of people in France believe that the general state of freedom has eroded under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, a survey has found.

Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub and other popular porn sites, is withdrawing its services from France in protest of the country’s new age verification requirements for accessing pornographic content online. The company is fiercely opposed to any laws designed to keep kids away from porn, like those passed by individual U.S. states.

Islamists have infiltrated child care homes in France to recruit minors into prostitution, drug trafficking, and terrorism, a report found.

French police officer will face trial on charges of voluntary homicide over killing of a 17-year-old, a death that triggered nationwide riots.

French authorities have charged 25 suspects, including six minors, in connection with a string of brazen kidnappings and attempted abductions targeting prominent figures in France’s cryptocurrency industry.

France saw a record number of arrests following a major sporting event after deadly scenes broke out following Paris Saint-Germain’s victory over Inter Milan in the Champions League final on Saturday.

European governments are “surrendering to the Muslim Brotherhood” thanks to the “useful idiots” leading them, according to Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, who urged Jews to flee countries like England and Belgium amid growing safety concerns, rising hostility toward Israel, and an intensifying Islamist threat.

Putin will not attend Monday’s proposed ceasefire talks in Turkey, Kremlin says, as Ukraine keeps whether it will attend an open question. 

French President Emmanuel Macron has attempted to downplay the significance of the explosive report from his own government detailing the infiltration of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood in France and throughout Europe, warning against the spread of so-called conspiracy theories.