Scuffles broke out in the Jungle camp in Calais less than an hour after French authorities began a fresh round of processing refugees and migrants to be driven away.

French shopkeepers, police, unionists and farmers will today join hauliers in calling for the northern section of the migrant camp at Calais to be demolished.

France's top administrative court has overturned a ban on burkinis in a Mediterranean beach resort, effectively meaning that towns can no longer issue bans on the swimsuits that have divided the country and brought world attention to its fraught relationship with Muslims.

At least 13 people have been killed and six others were injured after a fire swept through the basement of a bar in the French city of Rouen.

France’s interior minister is protesting accusations the government tried to cover up security failings the night of the Bastille Day attack in Nice that killed 84.

France's interior minister is protesting accusations the government tried to cover up security failings the night of the Bastille Day attack in Nice that killed 84 people.

The have-a-go hero French motorcyclist who tried to stop the truck massacre in Nice last week has revealed he was “ready to die” as he punched the driver while clinging to the door of the speeding vehicle.

France has held a minute's silence as they remember the victims of last week's attack in Nice.

Investigators have found no evidence so far that the truck driver who killed 84 people in Nice had links to "terrorist networks", France's interior minister has said.

France's intelligence chief believes Islamist extremists like those who carried out two waves of attacks in Paris last year will look to use booby-trapped cars in the future.

A man who stabbed a police commander and police administrator to death at their home in a Paris suburb pledged loyalty to the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group and had a list of other targets, including rappers, journalists, police officers, and public officials, the Paris prosecutor said.

A man with a past terrorist conviction shot video footage during a fatal knife attack on two police officers outside Paris, according to French officials.

The European Parliament has given final approval to an exchange of airline passenger data between security forces in the EU, ending a standoff between privacy advocates and those who consider the move crucial to fighting terrorism.

Belgian police have arrested seven people and German authorities arrested two in separate investigations into IS suicide bombings in Brussels, while authorities in France said they thwarted a militant plot there “that was at an advanced stage”.

A Frenchman has been arrested in the “advanced stages” of a plot to attack the country.

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Four people have been arrested in the Paris region and France's interior minister says there were fears that they were planning an attack.

Belgian police killed a gunman after several officers were wounded yesterday in a raid on a Brussels apartment linked to investigating November’s Islamist attacks in Paris, public broadcaster RTBF said.

A draft European Union plan to send back some migrants to Turkey has legal and moral flaws and could put vulnerable people at risk, the head of Amnesty International said, calling on Europe to take in more people seeking refuge instead.

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French state representatives went from tent to tent trying to convince residents in a sprawling migrant camp in the port city of Calais to leave, a day after a court ruled that a mass eviction could go ahead.

French police have prevented two men from carrying out an attack on police and army personnel in the central city of Orleans.

France says it will not wait for a change in EU rules to subject every European citizen to deep checks when they enter the Schengen travel-free zone.

France’s Senate has voted to extend a state of emergency for three months after last week’s deadly attacks.

The European Union has agreed to "considerably strengthen" means for the 28 nations to co-operate to combat violent extremism, officials said.

France wants to unite with the US and Russia in a grand coalition dedicated to fighting Islamic State (IS), French president Francois Hollande has said.

French officials have identified one of the Paris terror attackers as seven people were detained in Belgium linked to the atrocities.

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins has said three teams seem to have co-ordinated the attacks, and those that targeted the Bataclan concert hall, where 89 people died, mentioned Syria and Iraq.

An avalanche in the French Alps has swept seven climbers to their deaths on one of the region’s most popular routes. The avalanche struck three groups of roped climbers, said Pierre Besnard, the prefect of the Hautes-Alpes region.

The top security officials of Germany, France and Britain are pressing for better processing of migrants arriving in southern Europe and for a European Union-wide list of countries considered safe.

European countries will increase ID and baggage checks on trains after passengers thwarted an attack on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris, France’s interior minister said.