The Latest Breaking News from France

An expanding Hurricane Milton closed in on Florida's west coast on Wednesday, spawning tornados and lashing the region with rain and wind hours ahead of its expected landfall near Tampa Bay, where it could deliver a life-threatening surge of seawater to waterfront communities already battered by Hurricane Helene. FRANCE 24's…

Here in France, the flood waters are rising as the remnants of Storm Kirk dump biblical amounts of rain. But that's just a drop in the bucket compared with what the southeastern United States faces. Hurricane Milton is forcing the evacuation of 5.5 million Florida residents, with President Joe Biden…

The trial of a man accused of drugging and inviting men to allegedly rape his wife, Gisèle Pelicot, has horrified citizens – and revealed how laws on consent and rape need to change

The Vespa TAP was built in France for a handful of years in the 1950s, by a licensed Piaggio distributor. They rarely come up for sale, but this one is!

McKinsey & Company and other consulting firms have long faced criticisms for their involvement with governments. Investigative journalists and academics alike have flagged their growing influence, citing cases like the staggering expenses of up to £1 million per day on private consultants for the UK’s Covid-19 Test-and-Trace service, or the…

Chris excitedly posts family pictures from his trip to France. Brimming with joy, he starts gushing about his wife: “A bonus picture of my cutie … I’m so happy to see mother and children together. Ruby dressed them so cute too.” He continues: “Ruby and I visited the pumpkin patch…

It's an environmental tragedy with ongoing consequences in Ivory Coast. Back in 2006, the company Trafigura wanted to get rid of 500 cubic metres of toxic waste from the refining of petroleum products stored on its cargo ship Probo Koala. After three countries refused the ship, it finally unloaded its…

French President Emmanuel Macron is to meet for the first time with some of the nearly 15,000 Ukrainian troops that France has trained for the country’s fight against the Russian invasion

China says it is imposing anti-dumping measures on brandy imports from the European Union, marking the latest development in the growing trade dispute between Beijing and Brussels.