France’s president has paid homage to former French Resistance activist and author Geneviève Callerot, who has died aged 108.

France’s president began a visit to Lebanon Friday, where he will meet the crisis-hit country’s newly elected leaders, as the nation attempts to recover from the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war.

African governments have criticized a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he said that some leaders showed “ingratitude” for the deployment of his nation’s troops in the Sahel region in battling Islamist extremism.

France's president and first lady hosted President Joao Lourenço and his wife, Ana Afonso Dias Lourenço of Angola.

French President Emmanuel Macron extended an olive branch to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, declaring that France is “a solid ally” as he outlined his vision for global diplomacy in 2025

French President Emmanuel Macron honours Geneviève Callerot, a WWII Resistance activist and author, who passed away at 108.

France’s president began a visit to Lebanon Friday, where he will meet the crisis-hit country’s newly elected leaders, as the nation attempts to recover from the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war. Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Lebanon, is his first in more than four years, follows a 60-day ceasefire deal that aims to end the war.

"We also agreed to work closely with key allies on achieving peace and developing effective security guarantees," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy added.

France’s new prime minister has hinted at plans to water down Emmanuel Macron’s controversial state pension reforms. In 2023, Macron pushed through legislation that raised the legal age of ...

Image Demonstrators marching in Lyon, France, in 2023 against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan for a pension overhaul.Credit...Laurent Cipriani/Associated Press As the changes were being debated ...

France’s Parti Socialiste refused to back a motion of no confidence in François Bayrou’s government. It sold out its left-wing allies for feeble concessions, renewing the party’s dismal record of tailing neoliberal centrists.