The killing of 23-year-old student activist Quentin Deranque has shaken France at a moment of heightened political tension.

By Antony Paone LES PONTS-DE-CÉ, France, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A man trying to navigate the swollen river Loire has been swept away, officials said on Wednesday, as much of western France was placed under high alert for floods,

Crinon and Canadian Tom Wilson dropped the gloves and fought during Canada's 10-2 win in Sunday's men's hockey game. Wilson, who plays for the NHL's Washington Capitals, was given a five-minute major and game misconduct, but France decided to punish Crinon far more severely than just the ejection.

Yet if France has had a point all along about greater European strategic independence, why did it not happen? The answers might loosely be grouped into three: France was right, but too soon; it was right,

France plans to replace all US video-conferencing services, marking the EU's latest push for digital sovereignty - with more moves on the way.

High medical bills, safer systems, and better quality of life are driving a growing wave of health-motivated expats.

Leila Shahid, the first female Palestinian diplomat, who held prominent posts in Europe during some of the most tumultuous years of the Mideast conflict, has died in France at the age of 76.

PARIS (AP) — For the Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, it is “statistically inevitable” that fraud would come up at some point, the museum’s No. 2 said in the wake of a decade-long, $11.8 million suspected ticket-fraud scheme revealed last week.