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Talk about sending peacekeepers to Ukraine’s front lines welcome but won’t work without American boots on the ground, Zelensky says at Davos.

The military juntas ruling Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali announced on Tuesday they will deploy a joint task force of 5,000 troops to fight terrorism and organized crime in the Sahel region.

French President Emmanuel Macron called on Europe to “wake up” and spend more on defence in a speech that echoed previous warnings from President Donald Trump that NATO reliance on U.S. taxpayer dollars will no longer be tolerated.

Morning-of-inauguration coverage loaded with dire predictions, accusations, and even unfavourable comparisons to dictators. 

The birth rate in France fell to its lowest level last year since the end of the First World War, according to official figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE).

In an apparent attempt to fend off a re-run of the quick collapse of his predecessor, French Prime Minister François Bayrou attempted to throw out some red meat to the right in his maiden speech to the National Assembly, backing proportional representation, increased deportations, and avoiding heavy tax hikes on businesses. However, it remains to be seen how long Bayrou can keep the knives at bay in Paris.

Ukrainian President says he again discussed deploying Western troops to face down future Russian aggression in a call with Macron

A 31-year-old woman was raped by a man on her way home from a concert in central Paris in the early hours of Saturday morning.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s popularity has fallen since the Yellow Vest protests, while Marine Le Pen leads the pack of potential successors.

PARIS (AP) – Two trams collided in Strasbourg in eastern France on Saturday, causing dozens of injuries, though none critical, authorities said. The accident took place during the afternoon in a tunnel leading to the station near the city’s central train station.

France on Saturday handed over its second army base in Chad as part of an agreement with the country’s authorities to withdraw its military forces.

The government of Chad said on Thursday that a bizarre attack on the presidential palace had been repelled, with 18 of the attackers and one Chadian soldier killed in the process. 

France’s top diplomat fires warning shot, warning Europe considers Greenland part of its “sovereign borders” and should be left alone. 

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the controversial former leader of the French National Front party, member of the European Parliament, and patriarch of the Le Pen political family dynasty, has died at the age of 96.

France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial Monday over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of then-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

French authorities on Sunday held three Algerians suspected of inciting violence in TikTok videos, with at least two of them facing terror-related charges.

Nearly nine in ten French voters believe the recently installed government will collapse this year, while a majority said they want President Emmanuel Macron to resign.

French police detained an influencer from Algeria who is accused of calling on his followers to carry out attacks in France.

Multicultural Europe with history of extreme New Year’s Eve violence including the harrowing Cologne mass sex attacks prepares for violence.

President accused of vanity project as he pushes to replace historic stained glass that survived fire intact for ‘contemporary gesture’.

As Brexit foreshadowed Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, the defeat of Kamala Harris and the Democrats this year was preceded by the fall of globalists in Europe, leaving limited options for any real challenge to Trump’s authority from across the Atlantic.

The fourth government of the year was unveiled by recently-installed French Prime François Bayrou on Monday evening, in what appears to be a doubling down on neo-liberal Macronism, with previously discarded allies of the president returning to power.

French authorities seized hundreds of devices and arrested 95 people in connection to an immense international child pornography ring.

France began withdrawing soldiers from Chad on Friday, Chad’s defence ministry said, after N’Djamena last month abruptly ended military cooperation with the former colonial power.

A group of U.S. diplomatic officials met on Friday with the rebels who toppled Bashar Assad, awkwardly seeking to open channels with an insurgency whose leaders are designated terrorists. 

Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) goalie Gianluigi Donnarumma suffered a vicious facial wound after getting kicked directly in the face during PSG’s clash against Monaco.

A court in France on Thursday sentenced the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot to 20 years of imprisonment for drugging and raping her and allowing other men to rape her while she was unconscious, in abuse that lasted nearly a decade.

French President Emmanuel Macron is reportedly leading efforts to deploy a European force of up to 100,000 troops to Ukraine as peacekeepers in the event of ceasefire deal brokered by incoming President Donald Trump.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday filed criminal complaints against subsidiaries of electronics giant Apple in France and Belgium, accusing them of using “blood minerals” sourced to mines controlled by armed gangs in the eastern DRC.

France’s highest court has upheld an appeal court decision which had found former president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling.

Marine Le Pen said that she is preparing for the possibility of an early presidential election in France as Emmanuel Macron looks to be running out of options to effectively govern the nation.

At least 11 people have died after Cyclone Chido caused devastating damage in the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean.

Five people were killed at and around a migrant camp near Dunkirk, northern France, by “precise shots to the head”.

French political veteran François Bayrou, long time Macron ally, named as next Prime Minister after the last collapsed in record time.

Marine Le Pen pulled the plug on French President Emmanuel Macron’s govt last week and appear to have enjoyed a polling bump since.

The outgoing government unveiled a special bill to enable the state to levy taxes from Jan. 1 to avoid a shutdown.