COP21: French minister to preside over climate conferenceTension between developed and developing worlds an obstacle in global warming fightFri Oct 30 2015 - 01:00
France pays homage to victims of crash between coach and truck‘No one knows better than you the void they will leave in the villages’Tue Oct 27 2015 - 17:36
France faces ‘social and ethnic apartheid’ a decade after riotsPrime minister Manuel Valls warns of risk of ‘an explosion of our society’Tue Oct 27 2015 - 07:23
The power plays behind the Medici portraitsA Paris exhibition of Medici portraits is a subtle guide to the turbulence that would shape Europe for centuriesMon Oct 26 2015 - 06:00
France’s martyred village tries to come to terms with tragedyPetit-Palais was home to 28 of the 43 people killed in collision between coach and lorryMon Oct 26 2015 - 01:00
France in mourning after 43 die in crash, including boy (3)Most of the passengers on the coach, who were on a day trip, were over 70Fri Oct 23 2015 - 22:41
France crash: ‘Here, where everyone knows each other, we are annihilated’The pensioners killed organised a lottery to earn money for their outingsFri Oct 23 2015 - 21:35
Paris under pressure to improve Calais ‘jungle’Migrant numbers rocket amid shoddy services, hazards and racist sentimentThu Oct 22 2015 - 18:21
Marine Le Pen tried for incitement to religious hatredNational Front leader insists she was not comparing street prayers with NazisTue Oct 20 2015 - 18:22
French military targets most wanted jihadi ‘executioner’Salim Benghalem had long established ties to the Charlie Hebdo killersTue Oct 20 2015 - 01:00
Dominique Strauss-Kahn investigated for fraud at LSK companyParis prosecutor opened inquiry after businessman who lost €500,000 filed a lawsuitSat Oct 17 2015 - 01:00
Revisiting the lessons of the Suez crisis nearly six decades onThe October 1956 war was ‘an act of imperial madness’ that the West has ignoredFri Oct 16 2015 - 01:01
French jihadis' deaths in Syria could be turning pointQuestions over whether apparent killings in bombing of IS training camp were justifiedWed Oct 14 2015 - 01:00
Is Paris treaty all that stands between us and mass extinction?Author Elizabeth Kolbert says fear, not morality, could impel people to actSat Oct 10 2015 - 02:00
Tunisian civil society group wins Nobel Peace PrizeHonour intended to encourage Tunisians and make them example for Arab worldFri Oct 09 2015 - 21:15
Former French minister causes storm with ‘white race’ remarkNicolas Sarkozy furious after Nadine Morano refuses to apologise for commentsThu Oct 08 2015 - 01:00
Near lynching of Air France chiefs leads to national outragePolitical class and trade union movement unanimously condemn ugly assaultTue Oct 06 2015 - 23:54
Torrential rain floods Cote d’Azur and kills at least 17 peopleHollande links catastrophe around Cannes and Nice to climate changeSun Oct 04 2015 - 21:19
Syrian crisis overshadows summit on Ukraine conflictTimetable for Minsk accords delayed as local elections put on long fingerFri Oct 02 2015 - 21:48
Brutal Assad sells the illusion of stabilityVladimir Putin’s support has ensured the Syrian dictator’s survival, at least for nowFri Oct 02 2015 - 01:01
Sex, addiction and shattering tradition in Moroccan literatureMoroccan author Leila Slimani has taken a bold step in writing about a bored woman addicted to sex at a time when publishers in the region expect her to ‘describe sand dunes and camels’, and women's sexuality is an explosive topic in her country and the wider Muslim worldSat Sept 26 2015 - 09:15
Outrage spreads over Saudi public beheading sentenceAli al-Nimr (20) participated in protests against the Saudi governmentFri Sept 25 2015 - 13:11
Mainstream French politicians keep level head on migrationDivided public opinion explains why French politicians emphasise rules and the repression of traffickers as much as humanityThu Sept 17 2015 - 01:00
French parliament debates Syrian interventionFrench air operations shift from reconnaissance missions to bombing raids on ISWed Sept 16 2015 - 01:00
France turns up heat on climate change ahead of Paris conferenceThe French are pulling out all the stops to ensure the COP21 is not a mere talking shopSat Sept 12 2015 - 02:00
Palestine takes another small step towards statehoodHamdallah met by French prime minister as UN votes to raise Palestinian flag outside HQSat Sept 12 2015 - 01:00
Ségolène Royal: Pushing a broad battle against climate changeFrench environment minister optimistic for agreement at COP 21, writes Lara MarloweThu Sept 10 2015 - 01:00
France prepares to bomb Islamic State bases in northern SyriaFrançois Hollande changes tactics in light of the ongoing IS crisis and Russian actionsMon Sept 07 2015 - 19:47
Coalition confirms State may take thousands more refugeesTánaiste calls for ‘global solution’ to bring peace to migrants’ troubled homelandsFri Sept 04 2015 - 21:19
Enda Kenny promotes Irish business in LyonsTaoiseach admits Ireland may take 1,800 migrants during French economic visitFri Sept 04 2015 - 18:35
Ireland may take thousands of migrants - KennyTaoiseach says numbers to increase under EU dealFri Sept 04 2015 - 14:33
Fennelly report: Labour Ministers express full confidence in Attorney GeneralNation would be ‘deeply wounded’ if Máire Whelan was lost, says Brendan HowlinFri Sept 04 2015 - 01:00
Taoiseach says ‘not realistic’ to set figure for refugeesKenny says he instucted Minister Fitzgerald to attend crisis meeting with ‘flexible mind’Thu Sept 03 2015 - 20:37
Kenny: Coalition prepared to respond to no confidence motionsTaoiseach reacts to criticism, alleging possible individual agendas with eye to publicityThu Sept 03 2015 - 18:34
Migrant crisis: Tunnel traffic again disrupted at CalaisHelicopters search for migrants on train roofs, writes Lara MarloweWed Sept 02 2015 - 20:03
Man arrested after eight people die in Paris firePolice hold man with criminal record after worst fire in city for decadeWed Sept 02 2015 - 20:03
Skirting the ‘jungle’ of Europe’s migration crisisFranco-German entente provides new hope of a united EU policyTue Sept 01 2015 - 01:00
France may play more assertive role in migrant crisisPrime minister Valls and EU officials to visit Calais, including Jules Ferry campMon Aug 31 2015 - 01:00
French public and political class afraid to address migrant crisisCode of silence prompted perhaps by a collective guilty conscience, and fear of strengthening the extreme right-wing National FrontSat Aug 29 2015 - 08:56
Climate negotiations a ‘race against the clock’ after 23 years of talk and no actionCOP 21 officials urge world leaders to ‘look beyond national interests’Thu Aug 27 2015 - 10:07
François Hollande warns of threats facing FranceFrench president’s overview of state of world long on observation, short on remediesWed Aug 26 2015 - 01:00
President of France honours men who overpowered gunman on trainMoroccan denies jihadist motives despite being listed as radical IslamistMon Aug 24 2015 - 19:56
An opera about forbidden love and bodies floating down the SeineLe Pré aux Clercs, a public garden in Paris where countless duels were fought in the 16th century, gives its name to one of the most popular operas in French history. A revival is bound for WexfordThu Aug 20 2015 - 06:00
Islamic State’s evil genius and why it is thrivingGroup combines medieval executions and slavery with Hollywood-worthy propagandaSat Aug 08 2015 - 01:00
Climate talks: Is the planet to be saved or doomed?With just four months until COP 21, negotiations plod on but the public are mobilisingMon Jul 27 2015 - 01:00
‘There’s a rush of power when you hold a Kalashnikov. I know what it feels like’Former Guantánamo inmate Mourad Benchellali now spends his spare time trying to dissuade wannabe jihadis in France from repeating his mistakesSat Jul 25 2015 - 01:00
President calls for new thinking on climate changeMichael D Higgins concentrates on ethical issues in first major address in ParisWed Jul 22 2015 - 01:00
Michael D Higgins calls for support of ‘climate refugees’President ‘appalled’ by reluctance of some EU members to resettle refugeesTue Jul 21 2015 - 16:30
President Higgins in Paris for Climate ConferenceWill call for new thinking on global warming and decry selfishness of state-led policiesMon Jul 20 2015 - 18:52
Who rests in Yeats’s grave? French suggested sending fake WB Yeats skeletonRecently discovered diplomatic archives allude to secret procedureSat Jul 18 2015 - 01:01
