CLEAR-UP operations have started after violent rainstorms in the Bouches-du-Rhône, Var and Alpes-Maritimes saw mudslides, rivers bursting their banks and cars swept away.
Hundreds of firefighters an…
0 Read MoreFORMER PM Dominique de Villepin goes on trial today, charged with defaming President Sarkozy.
Villepin is the most high-profile figure among five defendants and is accused of involvement in a smear, …
0 Read MoreFORMER president Valéry Giscard d?Estaing has dropped a playful hint that he had a romantic liaison with Princess Diana.
The 83-year-old has written a novel called The Princess and the President wh…
0 Read MoreDAIRY farmers across France are continuing to throw away hundreds of thousands of litres of milk in protest at a lack of support from the government and the EU.
The strike actions, which are now in t…
0 Read MoreAN ELDERLY woman who was threatened by gas supplier GDF over a disputed ?7,000 bill has successfully sued the group for ?1,500.
The ruling by a court in Paris could make it easier for other energy …
0 Read MoreFRANCE?S monuments, famous buildings and heritage sites open their doors this weekend for the 26th Journées du Patrimoine.
Last year the Palais de la République, the Elysée, Matignon, Sénat and …
0 Read MoreFORMER Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin is appearing at the Paris Criminal Court in connection with the Clearstream affair.
He is suspected of involvement in a leak in 2004 of what turned out to…
0 Read MoreA HEALTH union has criticised what they see as over-the-top arrangements for a planned presidential visit to a hospital in a Paris suburb.
Sud-santé says the numerous security checks being planned a…
0 Read MoreDAYS after critics lambasted the ‘cheap’ new look on Ségolène Royal’s website its appearance has changed again.
Replacing the ‘sunrise over the prairie’ landscape and silver font is a purple ‘potat…
0 Read MoreTHE number of cases of swine flu has doubled over the last week ? to 103,000 cases ? and health minister Roselyne Bachelot says the epidemic has arrived.
Health watchdog InVS said the week of Septe…
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