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All Saturday races rescheduled on Sunday in Pont-Château with impending return of high winds

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday received Nechirvan Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in the north of Iraq – where France still has troops as part of its fight against the Islamic State. Paris has supported Kurdistan since the early 1990s.

Local authority in western France stops Saturday's planned races from happening; races rescheduled to Sunday

France has urged Israel and the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah to avoid destabilising the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon – warning that broadening the Israel-Hamas war would plunge Lebanon "into an abyss". However Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday said an escalation of hostilities was "a realistic possibility".

Extreme weather event caused fatalities in Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, France and Italy

Amid a surge in anti-Semitism in France, prosecutors have opened an investigation into a video that appeared on social media showing a group of young people chanting anti-Jewish slurs in the Paris metro.

Event takes key players of Tour de France to three kilometre circuit on outskirts of Tokyo

Natalie Zemon Davis, who died on October 21 just short of her 95th birthday, was probably the best-known and most well-regarded of North American historians since the 1970s. She published her first book, Society and Culture in Early Modern France, in 1975 and was writing the final pages of her…

Torrential rain and 200km/h winds force schools to close and airlines and train companies to halt services

Storm Ciarán made landfall in south-west England and northern France overnight on November 1, with heavy rain and winds blowing up to 180 kilometers per hour (108 mph).