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After ramming the government’s budget proposal through the National Assembly without a vote, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne avoided parliamentary censure in a vote that took place early on Saturday morning. The left-wing Nupes alliance filed...

At Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s request, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived here today for a formal visit. At Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina greeted the French President with a bouquet of flowers. At...

Marie-Laure de Decker, a French model who turned to photography to become a renowned war photographer, passed away on Saturday at the age of 75, her family announced. She had a protracted illness before passing away...

Arrests during a fifth night of rioting in France over the police shooting of a teenager have grown to 719, according to the interior ministry on Sunday. The ministry had earlier offered a preliminary total of...

Bangladesh and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), or the French Development Agency, have signed credit facility agreements (CFA) totaling EUR 277 million (roughly USD 303 million) for three critical development projects. Sharifa Khan, secretary to...

On Wednesday, France’s highest appeals court denied a request to revive a rape accusation against film director Luc Besson, putting an end to one of the most high-profile cases to come from the country’s MeToo campaign...

N’Golo Kante, a World Cup-winning midfielder for France, has joined Saudi Arabian champions Al Ittihad, the club said on Wednesday. He will team up with fellow countryman Karim Benzema at Al Ittihad. “Kante is an Ittihad...

On Tuesday, the Cannes feature Festival was set to get off to a rocky start, with Johnny Depp making a comeback in the opening feature, showing off his French abilities as King Louis XV. Despite his...

President Emmanuel Macron defended his hugely unpopular pension reform on Monday, saying he understood the French people’s “anger” after three months of protests. In his first address to France since signing the reform into law, Macron...

Despite surviving two no-confidence votes in the French parliament on Monday, President Emmanuel Macron’s administration is still under a lot of criticism for how it handled a contentious pensions reform. Elisabeth Borne, the prime minister, sparked...