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  • Patrick Bruel

    French star Patrick Bruel held by police investigating new sexual assault allegations

    Two new rape complaints have been filed against the 67-year-old singer and actor, who denies the claims
  • Two scale models of a fighter jet in front of the German, French and EU flags

    France and Germany abandon joint project to build European fighter jet

    Paris and Berlin conclude firms involved unable to agree on way forward in blow to Europe’s common defence push
  • Marie-Annick Gournet

    double quotation markFrance is starting to own its role in the slave trade. Now it needs to repair its Caribbean legacy

    Marie-Annick Gournet
    The notorious Code Noir is gone. But people in Guadeloupe and Martinique continue to live with the consequences, says academic Marie-Annick Gournet
  • Zelenskyy, Merz, Starmer and Macron stand talking in front of a black door

    Zelenskyy discusses ‘urgent need to scale up’ air defences with key allies in London

    Keir Starmer hosts Ukrainian, French and German leaders in Downing Street after Russia fires hypersonic weapons at Ukraine
  • Emmanuel Macron in a dark suit and tie smiles at the camera with a blurred backdrop behind him

    The Guardian view on the French presidential election campaign: only the far right will profit from division

    Editorial: Mainstream politicians should remember that in the battle to defeat Jordan Bardella or Marine Le Pen, unity is strength

    • Thousands march for French schoolgirl murdered after police failed to question suspect

    • Pete Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’

    • Paris frozen in time in May 1970 – in pictures

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  • Bernadette Chirac in a grey jacket with black collar and brown turtleneck sits in an elegant interior

    Bernadette Chirac, formidable former first lady of France, dies aged 93

    Widow of French ex-president Jacques Chirac was a steely behind-the-scenes operator known for her charity work
  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks with Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron outside No 10 Downing Street in December 2025

    Starmer to host Zelenskyy and EU leaders for Ukraine talks

    Ukrainian leader will attend UK meeting along with French president and German chancellor
  • A man in red patterned robes holds a megaphone and raises a staff during a street demonstration

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    The Africa exception: the slavery reparations debate was once ‘unthinkable’. Now it is unavoidable

    The architect of the African Union’s reparations framework for the historic UN resolution explains why demands for historical justice are inseparable from the struggle for Black sovereignty
  • Marjane Satrapi stands next to a red wall with vertical stripes

    double quotation markMarjane Satrapi captured profound human emotions – and paved the way for a generation

    Mana Neyestani
  • Green algae on Saint-Michel-en-Grève Beach in Brittany. Photograph: François Lepage/Hans Lucas for The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed – podcast

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  • Three policemen in security vests walk down a countryside road

    Uproar in France as it emerges suspect in case of missing girl had rape allegations dismissed

    Interior minister announces review into handling of the cases after body reportedly found in search for 11-year-old
  • People in a crowd in Southampton hold England and Union Jack flags, some standing in a tree

    Europe’s far right exploit Henry Nowak murder in UK with populist rhetoric on race

    Polish, Spanish and French populists focus on clips of teenager’s dying moments and accuse UK of descending ‘into depths of the earth’
  • Visitors wearing Mickey and Minnie Mouse ears take selfies in front of castle

    Disney racks up $4.2bn deficit on Paris parks

    Exclusive: Analysis shows resort has yet to recoup Disney’s investment despite record revenue and 16m annual visitors
  • Bayeux tapestry.

    ‘Of course we will give it back’: Bayeux tapestry set for secret journey across Channel

    Operation will use specially built container to protect fragile 11th-century embroidery
  • A reproduction of the great deer of Altamira cave.

    The long read
    ‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings

    The long read: For tens of thousands of years, these Palaeolithic artworks were unseen. When they were rediscovered, onlookers marvelled at their vivid beauty. One of the world’s leading experts took me up close
  • France's president, Emmanuel Macron, said the tanker was subject to international sanctions and was sailing from Russia

    French navy boards Russia-linked oil tanker in Atlantic – video

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  • The oil tanker, with a navy personnel's head in the foreground

    French navy seizes Russia-linked oil tanker in Atlantic

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