France

France's former interior minister and aide to ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to one year in prison by a Paris court.Claude Guéant was jailed on Friday for his role in the so-called "Elysée polls" scandal.The 77-year-old was found...

Two people from Lyon have been charged on suspicion of selling more than 1,000 fake COVID-19 health passes.The couple are accused of hacking into a French nurse's account in Gironde last summer to create the forged certificates.They were arrested...

France's government has ordered farmers to cull a total of 2.5 million animals after a number of outbreaks of bird flu.More than one million additional birds will now need to be slaughtered in the southwest of the country, the...

France has joined other western countries in formally condemning China's crackdown on Uyghur Muslims as "genocide".The French Assembly adopted a resolution on Thursday that officially recognized the treatment of the Uyghur minority in China as a crime against humanity.The...

French teachers' unions have called for a second major strike today to protest the government's coronavirus testing and isolation protocols, which they say are severely disrupting classes.The move follows a one-day walkout last week that, according to unions, saw...

France's education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer is facing calls to resign after holidaying in Ibiza while the latest health rules for French schools were announced.Blanquer was revealed to have been staying on the Spanish island when the latest strict protocols...

Professional athletes will have to be vaccinated or recently recovered from COVID to participate in competitions in France, the health minister stressed, a month ahead of the Six Nations rugby tournament.French lawmakers approved on Sunday evening a law transforming...

From today, older people in Greece that are not vaccinated face monthly fines. Those over the age of 60 and without the jab will have to pay a €50 penalty in January, rising to €100 in February. The decision...

The Paris criminal court will on Monday rule on whether far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour is guilty of inciting hatred and racial abuse.Zemmour, 63, described unaccompanied migrant children as "thieves", "murderers" and "rapists" during a September 2020 program on...

Far-left French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon sought Sunday to reinvigorate his flagging campaign for April's election with an “immersive and olfactory” rally, using 360-degree videos, sounds, and smells diffused through an exhibition hall.The unusual event in the western city...