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The 2025 Tour de France will start in the northern city of Lille, the organisers announced on Tuesday.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday promised two emergency funding packages to support towns in the northern regions of France devastated by flooding. He also declared in a state of natural disaster for 214 municipalities in Pas-de-Calais and around thirty in the Nord department.

112th edition could include cobbles and testing coast roads in first week

A Rwandan doctor who has been living in France for decades goes on trial in Paris over his alleged role in the 1994 genocide in his home country

It will be the first "home" Grand Départ since 2021, in the Nord Department

The Paris Olympic Games could be dubbed the “Seine-Saint-Denis Olympics”. Next summer, one of France’s most notorious neighbourhoods will host around 70 Olympic competitions. All eyes will be on the impoverished area. The event raises a lot of hope, but also a lot of anger, as 16 million tourists are…

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At least three innocent civilians have died in the crossfire this year, which has seen a record 45 drug-related murders.

A Rwandan doctor known as the “butcher of Tumba”, accused of facilitating the 1994 Rwandan genocide, goes on trial in Paris starting Tuesday. He will become the seventh Rwandan to be tried in France for crimes related to the genocide.