Crowds jeered the French prime minister as he joined other officials in Nice to remember victims killed during the lorry rampage on the city’s promenade.

Thousands of dock workers poured into a public square in the French port city of Le Havre, setting off smoke bombs as part of escalating nationwide protests against a labour bill that undermines worker protection.

Springtime in Paris is not quite as vibrant as usual this year.

Bernard-Henri Lévy warns that we are all in a state of intellectual emergency, left and right, and that we should unite to face up to Islamic extremism.

One of the suicide bombers behind Tuesday’s terror attack left a note on a computer claiming he was being “hunted everywhere”.

One of France’s charismatic ministers has unexpectedly resigned after objecting to President Francois Hollande’s push to revoke citizenship from convicted terrorists with dual nationality.

With France still reeling from the attacks that killed 129 and wounded hundreds, France’s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, has voted to extend a state of emergency for three months. The measure now goes to the Senate, where it is likely to be approved.

Angry French farmers have blocked the famed Mont Saint-Michel causeway and roads leading to the Alps to denounce low milk and meat prices.

Masked French police have taken the man who admitted beheading a businessman to the suspect’s home to search it.

A decapitated body daubed with Arabic writing was left at a US-owned factory in south-east France after an assailant rammed a delivery van into gas containers at the site, triggering an explosion.

A former mayor of Tours has been found dead in a suspected suicide just as he was to go on trial over suspected kickbacks involving Chinese group weddings in the picturesque Loire Valley city.

The far-right National Front has strengthened its presence in France’s grassroots politics in a second round of local elections that exit polls showed was won by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservatives.

A man and a boy featured in a chilling IS propaganda video showing the killing of a Palestinian have been identified as French citizens.

French police sealed off a housing estate in Marseille after hooded gunmen opened fire on a police car with Kalashnikov rifles in what a senior local official suggested was an incident related to drug crime.

France is to recruit thousands of extra police, spies and investigators to boost national security and intelligence, Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced, two weeks after 17 people were killed by Islamist militants.

French anti-terror prosecutors are seeking to charge four men in connection with the attacks in Paris that left 20 people dead.

Four men have appeared in a French court, the first to face charges in the Paris terror attacks that left 20 people dead, including three gunmen.

France’s prime minister has said that the country needs to use the attacks carried out by three French Islamic extremists as a reason to look inward at “a territorial, social, and ethnic apartheid”.

The tone, as well as the content of much of what passes for discussion on Israel, is too often a feral legitimisation of anti-Semitism, writes Gerard Howlin

Up to 10,000 troops are to be deployed to protect sensitive sites.

France has ordered 10,000 troops on to the streets to protect sensitive sites - half of them to guard Jewish schools – as it hunts for accomplices to the Islamic militants who left 17 people dead as they terrorised the nation.

Nearly 5,000 police officers have been deployed to protect Jewish schools across France as the country remains on the highest state of alert after last week's terror attacks.

The common-law wife of one of the perpetrators of last week’s terrorist rampage in France crossed into Syria from Turkey on January 8, Turkey’s foreign minister said today.

A huge security operation is being prepared ahead of unity marches in France, as the hunt for a fugitive linked to the Paris massacres took a new twist.

French anti-terrorism police converged on an area northeast of Paris after two brothers suspected of being behind an attack on a satirical newspaper were spotted at a gasoline station in the region.

France’s prime minister has dismissed the view that his country is “sick” and insisted that it is both willing and able to carry out economic reforms.

French president Francois Hollande dissolved the government yesterday after open feuding among his cabinet over the country’s stagnant economy. 

French president Francois Hollande is dissolving the government after an open feud in Cabinet over the country’s economy.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s car wheeled out of the court parking lot in the dead of night after he was charged in a corruption probe.

Former president Nicolas Sarkozy has accused France’s justice system of trying to “humiliate” and “destroy” him, after he was charged in a corruption probe that could spell trouble for his future political ambitions.

France’s Socialist government will not resign and will press forward with tax cuts and other reforms despite a record victory for the French far right in European parliament elections, the prime minister said today.

French police have identified the man arrested for shooting a newspaper assistant photographer and carrying out three other attacks.

French interior minister Manuel Valls insisted he stood by a controversial call for tens of thousands of ethnic Roma to be kicked out of the country.

Syria hailed an “historic American retreat” yesterday, mockingly accusing President Barack Obama of hesitation and confusion after he delayed a military strike to consult Congress.

France is ready to prevent new terror attacks after its military operation to push back al-Qaida-linked insurgents grabbing territory in Mali, the country’s top security official said today.

Youths fired buckshot at police in clashes in the French city of Amiens overnight yesterday, setting cars and a nursery school alight in a resurgence of urban unrest that president François Hollande said he would do everything to confront.