Paris extends curfew as Louvre closes before weekend protest
Demonstrations not called by trade unions are to be banned wherever possible, with five national museums shut before a new day of action.
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Paris bans protests across the city centre before weekend mobilisation
The capital's police prefecture has placed the Élysée, the Louvre and most main railway stations off limits to demonstrators for 12 hours.
Soros foundations fund groups at the centre of French unrest
Spanish reporting has linked seven organisations active in France's October unrest to George Soros's foundations, as activists prepare a Europe-wide youth strike…
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France moves to cut welfare benefits for convicted looters and rioters
The circular reflects the government’s broader effort to target the financial incentives surrounding street unrest and the informal economy.
France extends city curfews after first calm night since riots
Police reported no major incidents overnight as the government prepared a second round of local restrictions, with prosecutors casting doubt on official claims about…
Austria blames migration for riots in France and Italy
The Austrian Government says years of migration have brought conflicts into Europe that are not Europe's own, and warns it will act against extremism at home.
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Trump says Paris will soon be a ‘Muslim city’ as France counts the cost of riots
The US President blamed immigration for the worst disorder France has seen in decades and said he had warned his French counterpart years ago to close the borders.
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Bardella calls Macron’s riot address ‘cowardly’ as France counts the cost
The National Rally president said the French Government had nothing left to offer voters after the worst disorder in years.
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Looters return to Paris after riots leave 1,000 police injured
Officers made 108 fresh arrests in the capital on a second night of disorder, as the French Government held crisis talks and resisted calls for a state of emergency.
Communist network and unions latch on to France’s school revolt
Only 15 of the 50 organisations identified in the French protest movement are student or youth groups, an investigation has found.
Pope Leo XIV tells Macron right to life is foundation of all other rights
In his first speech on French soil, the Pontiff condemned surrogacy and assisted death in the palace where France's end-of-life law was signed in August.
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Pope Leo XIV’s four-day visit tests France’s secular consensus
The pontiff arrives in Paris for a journey that takes in the Élysée Palace, Lourdes and Metz, the first official papal trip to France in 18 years.
Foreign nationals make up vast majority of theft suspects on Paris region transport
Official data for 2025 show nationals of Maghreb countries topped the nationality breakdown, even as recorded crime on French public transport fell to its lowest…
Zucman invites Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez to Paris ‘anti-oligarchy’ summit
The French economist behind the rejected billionaire levy wants to put wealth taxes at the heart of France's 2027 presidential race.
Bardella presses France to shut ‘radical’ mosques as Brussels holds back
The National Rally leader wants the Muslim Brotherhood banned outright, while the European Commission has left any EU terrorist listing to member states.
Eiffel Tower shuts as staff protest at removal of women during Hindu visit
The company said the visit had formed part of a cultural festival tied to the temple opening and to the 2026 France-India year of innovation.
French financial prosecutors investigate LFI mayor of Saint-Denis over RATP job
The inquiry covers years in which Bally Bagayoko held a management post at the state-owned Paris transport operator while serving as a local elected official.
Paris makes gender assessments mandatory for all public space projects
The motion argues that a growing "masculinist" movement, which it links to a reactionary right-wing politics, is increasingly challenging feminist policies.
Paris knife attacker invokes Allah after stabbing three women, footage shows
Anti-terror prosecutors are examining the assault at Porte de Clichy, where a witness said the man went for women alone and one of those wounded was pregnant.
Unrest hits Paris and Lyon after France’s World Cup exit
French interior minister Laurent Nuñez had announced the deployment of 70,000 police and gendarmes across the country.
France showcases European unity with Ukraine at Macron’s final Bastille Day parade
Some 500 soldiers from the Coalition of the Willing, the grouping of nations backing Kyiv against Moscow, opened the march down the Champs-Élysées.
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Paris under siege: Why a G7 capital paralyses because of a ball game in Boston
Last night's World Cup match prompted Paris to adopt extreme security measures, revealing deeper societal issues and the failure of integration, leaving the capital…
Video shows Paris sanitation worker pushing garbage into canal open for public swimming
The footage shows a municipal cleaning employee using a high-pressure hose to clear debris from a roadway bordering the canal.
Massive immigrant riots in Paris after Champions League win
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The hijab appears as haute couture in Paris fashion week show
Paris has hosted its first Modest Fashion Week, bringing together more than 30 designers from Indonesia, Turkey, Nigeria and beyond.
Paris garden memorial to terrorist victims vandalised again
The memorial garden in Paris, known as the Jardin du 13 Novembre 2015, located in the 4th arrondissement just in front of the Hôtel de Ville, was vandalised again…
Sports clubs in fashionable arrondissement fight back as Paris turns public gym into migrant shelter
A gym in Paris’s chic and affluent 15th arrondissement is now closed to the public after the Socialist-led city of Paris requisitioned it as an emergency shelter…
Water leak at Paris Louvre Museum soaks valuable books on ancient Egypt
A water leak at the Louvre Museum damaged several hundred books held in the library of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities.
French police hunt Louvre jewel thieves
The hunt was on Monday for the band of thieves who stole eight priceless royal pieces of jewellery from the Louvre Museum in the heart of Paris in broad daylight.
At least 145 women attacked with syringes amid violence during French music festival
At least 145 woman were attacked with syringes during an eruption of violence apparently instigated by people from migrant backgrounds during the nationwide French…