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Just two days before the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony kicks off, France was granted conditional approval to host the 2030 Winter Olympics. Set to take place in the French Alps, the green light was given by the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday under the condition that the next prime…

Mr Macron’s outgoing government will remain in place until mid-August

Plus: one club represented by all four semi-finalists; more comebacks kings and queens; and on-field player arrests

Against a backdrop dominated by a snap election which has left France technically ungoverned, hope remains that the 2024 Games unite a fractured nation

After the World Cup, continental competitions offer the biggest prizes in international football. Here, a look at some of the most notable winners...

Man indicted for sharing intelligence for ‘provoking hostilities in France’

At the end of a narrow suburban street north of Paris, a giant structure shrouded in a skin of mesh and steel looks like a football stadium, but is in fact a vast data centre.

France is yet to greenlight an edict from Pacific leaders to visit its territory of New Caledonia after riots, saying it remained the president's prerogative.

The speed, skill and flair on display in rugby sevens makes it an ideal Olympic sport. The Paris games should be no exception, especially given France’s own great rugby tradition.

French President Macron extends caretaker government until Olympics end, appoints Lucie Castets as prime minister. Political landscape in France remains di...

France's President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said he would maintain the current centrist caretaker government through the end of the Paris Olympics to avoid “disorder”. His remarks came just after the leftist New Popular Front bloc, which won the most seats in parliament during the snap elections this month, finally…