Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin arrives to attend the funeral for late French President Jacques Chirac at ...

PARIS (AP) — Laurent Vinatier, a French political scholar serving a three-year sentence in Russia and facing new charges of espionage, has been freed in a prisoner swap with France, officials said ...

French politics is starting to give off a “whiff of near civil war”, said Renaud Dély on France Info (Paris). On 12 February in Lyon, a far-right activist and devout Catholic called Quentin Deranque ...

(Bloomberg) -- In the decade that followed the euro zone debt crisis, France stood out as an island of stability amid Europe’s turbulent politics. Spain was burdened by weak governments and serial ...

It was the scandal that turned the 2017 French presidential election on its head, sweeping away the favourite and allowing relative newcomer Emmanuel Macron to romp home. On Monday, former prime ...

French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds, in a politically explosive ...