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Aix-Marseille-Provence region, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Nice, Paris, Reims, Strasbourg and Toulouse all have clean air zones

Holidaymakers can now fly directly to a new destination this winter

The new routes will begin this winter

Although they never fail to take us aback, French riots have followed the same distinct pattern ever since protests broke out in the Eastern suburbs of Lyon in 1981, an episode known as the “summer of Minguettes”: a young person is killed or seriously injured by the police, triggering an…

French President Emmanuel Macron is to meet on Tuesday with some 220 mayors of towns that have witnessed riots that broke out since the death of the 17-year-old Nahel M. at the hands of a police officer. Seeking to suppress the violent unrest that has swept across major cities the…

France has seen five consecutive nights of rioting across the country following the death of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop

Fourth night of demonstrations sees 45,000 police deployed as authorities claim the situation is calmer

France’s interior minister says that “significant reinforcements” have been sent to Marseille where more than 80 people have been arrested

British fashion designer admired for her use of quality materials such as graphic chiffons, figured velvet and silk woven in Lyon

France on Saturday deployed 2,000 gendarmes and police to the Maurienne valley in the Alps where 2,000 activists defied a protest ban at the construction site of a high speed train linking the Lyon with Turin, in Italy.

France deployed more than 2,000 members of the security forces to the Maurienne Alpine valley in the country’s east on Saturday as hundreds of activists prepared to defy a ban to protest against plans for a high-speed train linking the French city of Lyon with Turin, Italy. The activists aim…