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Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, has claimed that the head of France’s foreign intelligence agency asked him to ban Romanian conservatives ahead of the country’s elections, a request he says he refused.

An art installation for “equality month” at Grenoble Alpes University in Southern France has come under fire for messages denouncing “white males” and claiming that white people are the only demographic guilty of racism.

The time has come: After a typically turbulent month of gimmicks, weird social media videos, and more fondue than anyone’s doctor would recommend, the Eurovision Song Contest will hold its Grand Final on Saturday.

A claimed “gender gap” in carbon emissions was revealed Wednesday in a French study that found women emit 26 percent less carbon than men due to their diet and transport choices.

French President Emmanuel Macron has accepted an invitation from King Charles III to pay a state visit to the U.K. Buckingham Palace said.

National Rally leaders Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella lead the field of prospective candidates to replace French President Emmanuel Macron when he is termed out in 2027.

Emmanuel Macron and his globalist allies are essentially cosplaying as warriors and risk “fomenting war” rather than achieving peace in Ukraine, French opposition leader Marine Le Pen warned over the weekend.

Ukraine and its allies are ready for a “full, unconditional ceasefire” with Russia for at least 30 days starting on Monday, Ukrainian FM Andrii Sybiha said Saturday.

Jihadist president of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in Paris on Wednesday for meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron.

Merz and Macron signal defiance to President Trump in saying they will never accept an “imposed” peace on the Ukraine War. 

Syria´s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa is visiting Paris on Wednesday for talks with President Emmanuel Macron.

French police rescued the father of a wealthy cryptocurrency entrepreneur in a nighttime raid after he was taken hostage for ransom, the latest alleged criminal effort in France to extort people involved in the management of digital assets.

French authorities investigating a wave of prison attacks are looking at the possible involvement of a notorious drug cartel.

The French government told parliamentarians this week that it will take steps to ban one of the leading far-left Antifa groups in the country amid allegations of using violence against political opponents.

A Syrian Islamist rebel ex-spokesman went on trial in France on Tuesday under the principle of universal jurisdiction.

The French far-left has attempted to condemn the entire society following the brutal killing of a Muslim worshipper in a mosque in Southern France, allegedly committed by a Bosnian-heritage man.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) sided Thursday with three women who said they were raped when they were aged 13, 14 and 16,

A record number of adults in France are expected to have received baptism across the country on Easter, primarily driven by young people joining the Catholic Church.

French writer Renaud Camus has been informed that his presence in the United Kingdom “is not considered to be conducive to the public good,” and thus he has been banned from entering the country.

The U.S. will do whatever it takes to get peace in Ukraine as long as “either side or both” actually engage in the process, said Rubio.

The left-wing Labour Party government in Britain has entered into negotiations with France for a potential migrant exchange scheme in which illegals who cross the English Channel would be sent back in return for the UK taking in an equal number of alleged asylum seekers living in France.

Paris is hosting a series of talks Thursday about Ukraine and its security, including U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The U.S. was wrong to neuter European power and create vassal states in the 1950s, Vice President JD Vance has said.

Radical left involvement is being considered by counter-terrorism police after prisons, and prison officers at home were targeted nationwide.

Greece signed a deal Monday to purchase anti-ship missiles from France as it seeks to bolster its defenses.

UK defense minister urged military leaders to press ahead with plans to deploy troops to Ukraine to police a peace agreement with Russia.

A group of pro-Palestinian radicals have claimed credit for a fire that consumed a McDonald’s restaurant building in France this week.

The World Uyghur Congress announced a pioneering legal action on Monday against three French subdivisions of the Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei, Hikvision, and Dahua to hold them accountable for providing Beijing with surveillance technology to facilitate the ongoing Uyghur genocide.

France has reportedly overtaken Germany for the first time in years as the top destination in the European Union for alleged asylum seekers, a survey from the governing Commission has found.

France’s trade minister said the European Union’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs could be “extremely aggressive” amid increasingly heated rhetoric from Paris.

Thousands of people gathered in Paris on Sunday to protest against the court decision effectively banning National Rally leader Marine Le Pen from running in the 2027 presidential election, in which she stands as the undisputed frontrunner.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met the leaders of the British and French armed forces in Kyiv Saturday to discuss the potential deployment of a multinational peacekeeping force to Ukraine, despite the reluctance of U.S. President Donald Trump to provide security guarantees.

President Emmanuel Macron’s call for French businesses to stop investing in the United States has been ridiculed and rejected by business leaders in the country.

On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Greg Kelly Reports,” U.S. Presidential Envoy for Special Missions Ric Grenell reacted to French President Emmanuel Macron calling for the E.U. to suspend investments in the United States over new tariffs by stating that the

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio asked allied foreign ministers gathered in Brussels on Thursday to increase their defense spending to five percent of their gross domestic products (GDP) – a very substantial increase for most members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and considerably more than the even the United States spends as a percentage of GDP.

Éric Zemmour has been sentenced to pay a 10,000 euro fine after being convicted over comments he made concerning the Holocaust.