France's relations with US President Donald Trump are "transactional", the French government's spokesperson said Wednesday, adding that neither side wants to enter a trade war. Trump threatened a

German and French leaders Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron are holding bilateral talks. Topics include the new Trump administration, war in Ukraine and the conflict in the Middle East.

France's newspaper of record joins The Guardian in exiting the site formerly known as Twitter over Musk's increasingly extreme politics.

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou warned on Monday that France and Europe as a whole would have to stand up to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and his policies, or face being "crushed".

Trump signed an executive order that begins the process of withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, which he also did during his first term.

Weak, distracted and unprepared? How prepared France, Germany and the rest of the continent really are for his return to power

French cognac makers increased shipments to the United States in December, trade data showed, as distributors fill up their stocks to prepare for possible new tariffs while demand in the country shows signs of improvement.

President Trump’s relatives return to Washington with more political and cultural support — and a far better understanding of how to wield their soft power.

As United States President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term on Monday, he repeated his wishes to acquire the Panama Canal and rename the Gulf of Mexico in his inaugural speech. Trump has spoken about the canal and the Gulf of Mexico previously. On Monday, he signalled he was serious about moving ahead with both those ideas – and soon.

Almost 90,000 expats and thousands of Australian companies could see their tax rates doubled unless Labor junks the so-called “news bargaining incentive”.

I t has been centuries since Poland was last a great armed power, but the winged hussars are back. When Russia seized Crimea in 2014, Poland’s armed forces were the ninth-biggest in NATO. Today they are third after America and Turkey,