France

A court found French former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence-peddling and sentenced him to one year in prison.

The verdict is expected in a landmark corruption trial that has put former President Nicolas Sarkozy at risk of a prison sentence.

Three people were arrested in the French commune of Sarcelles after a mob of around 30 individuals laid siege to a local police station.  

A poll has revealed 69 per cent of French, nearly 7 in 10, say that there is a problem with an ideology of “Islamo-Leftism” in the country.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage reported on Saturday that an entire boat of illegal migrants tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus after being escorted into British territorial waters by the French Navy. Mr Farage claimed that he received a tip-off from

Greenpeace activists have dropped several large boulders into the English channel in an effort to stop fishing in a protected area. 

Far-left anarchists have taken credit for arson attacks on internet equipment in the latest act of infrastructure sabotage by extremists. 

Clashes and brawls between rivals gangs increased by 24 per cent in France in 2020, the Interior Ministry has revealed. 

Attacks on officers have more than doubled, with an average of 85 incidents against public authority officials recorded every day.

A group of ISIS-affiliated women have gone on a hunger strike in Syria after demanding the French government let them back into France.

Five more France rugby players have tested positive for the coronavirus and will miss the Six Nations match against Scotland.

A 46-year-old official at a French asylum seeker reception facility has died after being stabbed several times, allegedly by a Sudanese migrant who had his asylum claim rejected.

A Paris court handed out jail terms of between 22 and 30 years to three jihadists after they were found guilty of plotting a terror attack in the French capital in December 2016.

Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault said on Thursday that his country intends to make social media giant Facebook compensate Canadian news organizations for using their content, much as pending legislation in Australia would do.

The Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), a group the French government wanted dissolving in the aftermath of the murder of Samuel Paty, is expected to relocate to Brussels under a new name.

Activists and members of the populist French National Rally (RN) faced down pro-migrant protestors near the Spanish border as they launched their regional election campaign.

A 36-year-old French woman claims that her abusive migrant husband used her in an attempt to obtain French citizenship so he could abandon her and her children and bring his African wife and family to France.

Between 2014 and 2020, the number of children reported being exploited and sold by sex traffickers in France increased by 600 per cent, according to the country’s human trafficking agency.

The Japanese embassy in Paris has warned its nationals to be on alert after a Japanese citizen was attacked with acid earlier this month.

France´s lower house is voting on a bill that would strengthen government oversight of mosquesand crack down on polygamy and forced marriage.

A public prosecutor has turned over an investigation into an anti-mass migration protest in the French Pyrenees to the office tasked with fighting genocide and war crimes.

A 32-year-old pro-migrant activist has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of attacking police at a Paris protest.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Many Europeans are desperate for a coronavirus vaccine. But not just any vaccine.

A 22-year-old man in the Paris no-go suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis was sentenced to four years in prison after blackmailing underage girls for sex on social media.

National Rally leader Marine Le Pen and MEP Gilbert Collard were in court this week as prosecutors demand a 5,000 euro fine against the two for posting pictures of Islamic State atrocities on Twitter in 2015.

A 69-year-old Algerian man in the suburbs of Paris faces trial after he allegedly stabbed his 15-year-old son to death in 2015 and kept the boy’s corpse in his apartment for 18 months.

PARIS (AP) – France’s government wants to set the age of sexual consent at 15 and make it easier to punish long-ago child sexual abuse, amid growing public pressure and a wave of online testimonies about rape and other sexual

The UK has overtaken the EU in the total number of people given a vaccination against coronavirus, despite having a sixth of the population. 

French police have arrested five people aged 18 to 29 regarding death threats sent to a French teen who criticised Islam on social media last November.

Investigators found an arsenal of weapons including explosives in a Paris suburb after raiding a local drug trafficking network.