However, tensions soon erupted and violence began, with cars set on fire and riot police deployed. This is now continuing days later and has spread out of Paris to many major cities in France.

Local mafia again exercise lazy control from the doorways of this vast housing estate south of Paris; their guns on show, their faces hidden. After days of riots, there is no sign of the police.

The interior ministry says it will send a CRS unit of some 60 police who are specialised in dealing with urban riots in response, BFMTV reports. 'This was a kid': Paris suburb rocked by killing ...

Authorities in the French Caribbean island of Martinique said Monday that the remaining nighttime curfews in the capital and surrounding areas would be lifted as tensions eased after weeks of ...

PARIS—Before riots swept New Caledonia last week, President Emmanuel Macron aimed to put the remote territory—and its massive reserves of nickel—at the center of France’s push to secure ...

More than a quarter of a century later, Paris plans to open voting rights to people who have been in the country for more than 10 years uninterrupted. Of the island's roughly 270,000 inhabitants ...

The multisectoral and repeated protests in different parts of France against the advanced pension reform project touched Paris 2024 closely, as the Olympic Village and the Stade de France suffered ...

The French Supreme Court will examine the appeal of five Kanak pro-independence activists – including their leader Christian ...