The Latest Breaking News from France

Brewers are struggling to swallow proposals to increase taxes on alcoholic and sweetened drinks under France's latest budget, currently being debated by parliament. While supporters say the measures would raise much-needed funds for the French health system, beer makers warn they could end up penalising independent breweries already finding it…

Our mountaineering expert takes a look at the Piolets d’Or awards, detailing their history, controversies and the legendary winners of the ‘Golden Ice Axe’

The French government wants to deploy new-generation surveillance cameras on roads that could pick up on more than just speeding, according to its 2025 spending plans.

Filippo Agostinacchio leads team to the win on final leg ahead of France and Spain

The news from Ukraine is grave – to echo Churchill’s speech on the fall of France in 1940. Today the talk among advisers and analysts is less of possible victory for Ukrainians, but how they can avoid defeat.

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune pardons 4,000 detainees to mark 70th anniversary of the independence war with France.

French interior minister Bruno Retailleau says the attack shows that drug-related violence in France has reached a ‘tipping point’

For weeks, the French Caribbean island of Martinique has been the site of at-times violent protests over high living costs and worsening economic conditions. And Martinique isn’t alone; in the neighboring French island of Guadeloupe, striking workers stormed the control room of a power station on Oct. 26, 2024, causing…

The United States, Germany and France have called for the release of a Chinese human rights lawyer and his wife who were sentenced to prison this week