French Minister resigns amid probe into parliamentary jobs for daughters

French interior minister Bruno Le Roux has resigned a few hours after prosecutors opened an investigation into a report that he hired his two daughters for a series of temporary parliamentary jobs, starting when they were 15 and 16 years old.

President Francois Hollande said he had accepted Mr Le Roux's resignation after a meeting with Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve at the Elysee Palace.