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Team GB athlete Tom Kennedy was flying to France to compete in an ironman triathlon last weekend but his hope of qualifying were left up in the air without his specialist equipment

Wave of unrest after teenager’s death leaves French president weighing pleas to tackle inequality against calls for tougher policing

SCOTLAND’S trade minister Richard Lochhead is set to meet business leaders in France in the hope of opening up new investment and trade…

Inquiry comes after President Emmanuel Macron met mayors to explore ‘deeper reasons’ for violence

A French far-right figure behind a divisive, and hugely successful, crowdfunding campaign for the family of a police officer jailed in the killing of a 17-year-old that triggered riots around France announced on Tuesday that he’s closing the account which topped more than 1.5 million euros

On Saturday, the fifth day of violent protests all over France against the police killing of an unarmed teenager, Nahel Merzouk, the daily arrests dropped below 1,000 for the first time, but the violence became even more extreme.

Investigation opened into the death of a 27-year-old caused by a ‘flash-ball’ projectile.

When a police officer last week shot and killed a resident of Paris’s suburb of Nanterre, 17-year-old Nahel M., it unleashed a wave of unrest across France – an echo of similar protests launched by youth living in housing projects two decades earlier. Billions of euros of investment in the…

Emmanuel Macron pledged swift government support to help mayors rebuild schools, libraries and town halls destroyed during a week of violence that swept across France after the police shooting of a teenager.

Dutchman fined for bumping Girmay in sprint, Philipsen denies causing Jakobsen crash

Cavendish took a gamble on the wheel of former world champion Mads Pedersen at the finish of stage four of the Tour de France, but it did not pay off