In a first, France has appointed an envoy for the Indo-Pacific, a move that shows how Paris is giving priority to the new concept which is increasingly gaining currency.

France appoints envoy for Indo-Pacific

Four people were killed and one was missing after a tourist plane and a microlight aircraft collided in western France on Saturday. The small microlight carrying two people collided with a DA40 tourist plane with three people onboard around 4:30pm (1430 GMT) in Loches in the Indre-et-Loire department.

Four dead, one missing in French air collision

A police station in suburban Paris came under attack by about 40 unidentified people on Saturday night (local time). The mob was armed with metal bars and it was using fireworks as mortars.

Mob of 40 attacks police station in Paris suburb

A France startup puts recycled hair to good use, Chateau of Versailles turns into a salon. Watch this report to get more on this!

Chateau of Versailles turn into a salon: Startup puts recycled hair to good use

Macron has announced that France will provide 100 million euros as emergency aid to the flood-hit region.

France to provide 100 MN euros to flood-hit region

French fashion label Chanel brought a touch of tinseltown to the runway in Paris on Tuesday (October 6), with glamorous feathered gowns - and a nod to the Hollywood sign, recreated to spell out the brand's name.

Chanel marks Paris Fashion Week with a dose of Hollywood glamour

The roaring seas are no threat to French skipper Clarisse Cremer, one of the six women slated to participate in this year's Vendee Globe sailing race.

‘Small arms, big boat’: French female skipper to embark on Vendee Globe run

Home to 6 million Muslims, France is looking to create its own brand of Islam. The irony? France officially separates the state from religion.

Gravitas: Is France creating its own brand of Islam?

France has one of the largest number of Muslims in the Western World. But still, the country has an uneasy relationship with the community.

Gravitas: Why France has an uneasy relationship with Islam

Callais is one of Paris's 227 "bouquinistes" who sell secondhand books and engravings along a three-kilometre stretch of embankment -- a tradition going back centuries, now under threat from coronavirus. While the job was never lucrative, Callais said the flight of visitors from the city has left the booksellers, who ply their trade on the main tourist drag from Notre Dame to the Louvre, with a fraction of the customers. Many of his contemporaries have decided not to re-open at all.

Coronavirus deals blow to Paris's historic riverside booksellers

Massive floods in France and Italy have not just killed people along with causing other destruction, but their sheer intensity has also swept out corpses from cemeteries.

Floods in Italy, France cause dead bodies unearth from cemeteries

Diyabanza, a Congolese activist who has lived in France for 20 years, belongs to a pan-African movement that demands France return colonial artifacts it expropriated from its subjugates and recompense for acts of slavery.

Meet the Congolese “seizing” African art from Western museums

French fashion label AMI pushed the boat out for its latest fashion show in Paris on Saturday - hosting its catwalk display on the banks of the Seine river at dusk.

Parisian label AMI parades models by the Seine for fashion week

Flooding from record rains in a mountainous region of France and Italy has killed two people and left at least nine missing. Storm Alex ravaged villages around the city of Nice on the French Riviera, sweeping away roads and damaging homes.

Floods, landslides, devastation of houses; Storm Alex batters France & Italy

People in the southern Pacific French territory of New Caledonia have once more voted to stay with France, narrowly rejecting independence in a tightly-fought referendum.

The 'no' camp emerges victorious: New Caledonia remains with France

A Congolese who has lived in France for 20 years, Diyabanza belongs to a pan-African movement that is pressing France to return those artifacts and make reparations for acts of slavery. He appeared in court on Wednesday charged with attempted theft. Prosecutors demanded a fine.

'Seizing' African art: Diyabanza led the operation at Quai Branly museum

Paris is to be placed on maximum COVID-19 alert, meaning bars will be forced to close for two weeks from Tuesday

Bars in Paris to close for two weeks as city placed on maximum COVID alert

Flooding from record rains in the mountainous region that spans France and Italy killed an Italian firefighter and left at least 25 people missing.

At least two killed and 25 missing in Italy and France floods

Watch this week's West Asia Post as we talk about Lebanon's growing economic crisis with an exclusive ground report from Beirut. For more such stories, keep watching the West Asia post with Ghadi Francis every Friday at 8:30 PM, only on WION.

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Voters in New Caledonia in the French South Pacific territory are all set to cast their ballots on whether to break away from France & form an independence state after almost 170 years.

New Caledonia set for 2nd referendum on Independence

Protesters gathered near Eiffel Tower in Paris to demonstrate their opposition to human rights violations in China. More than 300 protesters took to Trocadero square and expressed their anger against Chinese Communist Party on Thursday.

Anti-China protest near Eiffel Tower decries human rights violations

Region near French-Italian border is battling floods as storm Alex hit the area on Saturday. The storm has caused heavy flooding. The floods have damaged homes and swept away roads.

France battles floods, Paris stares at COVID-19 lockdown

At least eight people were missing in France after a storm passed through the southeastern part of the country, causing strong floods around the city of Nice. Meteo France said that 450mm (17.

Storm Alex batters southeastern France, several go missing

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