World Dec 12

Police union officials identified the suspected assailant as Frenchman Cherif Chekatt, a 29-year-old with a thick police record for crimes including armed robbery and monitored as a suspected religious radical by the French intelligence services.

World Dec 11

French prosecutors said a terrorism investigation was opened, though authorities did not announce a motive for the bloodshed.

World Dec 10

Even as French President Emmanuel Macron broke his silence on the protests in a brief televised address, yellow-vested demonstrators vowed to keep up the pressure on a man they see as arrogant, out-of-touch and "president of the rich."…

World Dec 05

Protesters celebrated the victory, but some said Macron's surrender came too late and is no longer enough to quell the mounting anger at their president, whom they consider out-of-touch with the problems of ordinary people.

World Dec 02

French President Emmanuel Macron visited the graffiti-damaged Arc de Triomphe monument and held an emergency meeting on security Sunday, a day after central Paris was hit by France’s worst riot in a generation.

World Dec 01

Paris police says at least 80 people have been injured, including 16 police officers, in violent protests in the center of the French capital.

World Oct 11

France's president is turning a government reshuffle into a soapbox against the time-pressures of modern politics and wall-to-wall news coverage.

World May 28

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday lauded as a hero a migrant from Mali who scaled an apartment building to save a child dangling from a balcony, and rewarded the young man's bravery with an offer of French…