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20 July 2024

  • The Olympic rings and the Eiffel tower

    Liberté, egalité … fraternité? Conflict looms large as Paris welcomes world to Olympics

    With the shadow of war as a backdrop, can the Paris Games live up to its ideals?

19 July 2024

  • Ian Cameron poses alongside a Rolls-Royce car

    Former Rolls-Royce designer’s alleged killer arrested in France

    Police say Serbian man detained near Paris after 74-year-old Ian Cameron was stabbed to death at home in Germany

18 July 2024

  • Yaël Braun-Pivet applauds the national assembly vote

    Macron ally wins surprise re-election as national assembly speaker

    Vote for centrist MP Yaël Braun-Pivet marks first step out of governing limbo since snap elections left country divided
  • France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L)

    Keir Starmer says he is open to processing asylum seekers offshore

    PM wants to rethink UK’s immigration policies but did not make progress on returns deal at summit with EU leaders

    • Roland Dumas obituary

    • French police hunt for arson suspects after seven killed in fire in Nice

    • One person dies in Channel crossing attempt near Gravelines

17 July 2024

  • Anne Hidalgo during her swim

    Paris mayor swims in Seine as river is cleaned up just in time for Olympics

    Anne Hidalgo fulfils pledge after cleanup operation makes water quality safe enough to host events at Games

  • Paris mayor swims in Seine to show river is clean enough for Olympics – video

    Anne Hidalgo promised to swim in the Seine to show the river was clean enough for open swimming competitions beginning in nine days
  • Inflatable pigs watch from the roadside during the Tour de France

    Costumed and colourful: 2024 Tour de France fans – in pictures

    As the cycling race approaches its climax in Nice, fans continue to line the roadsides of its 3,492km route

16 July 2024

  • Enzo Fernández with the Copa América trophy on Sunday

    Wesley Fofana and French FA appalled by Argentina team’s ‘racist’ celebrations

  • Richard Wilson

    Citizens’ assemblies could work wonders for Labour and Britain – but only if they’re more than a talking shop

    Richard Wilson

15 July 2024

  • Emmanuel Macron at a Bastille Day parade in Paris, 14 July 2024: he is seen in the centre of the picture in a street with lines of soldiers in ceremonial uniform and plumed hats facing him. He wears a dark blue suit with shirt and tie and is positioned so he appears to be looking down the ranks from a height.

    France: failure to agree on new PM puts leftwing coalition in ‘stalemate’

  • Recycle and reuse … the Georges Vallerey pool, to be used for swimming training, has been fitted with a new retractable timber roof.

    Plastic-bottle seats and wooden pools: can Paris deliver the leanest, greenest Olympics yet?

14 July 2024

  • Emma Beddington

    Raging, radical and ready for change: France’s angry green women are an inspiration to us all

    Emma Beddington
    From Marine Tondelier to Mélanie Vogel, they are whip-smart, articulate and unafraid to show emotion. It’s astonishing to feel so inspired by politicians, writes Emma Beddington

13 July 2024

  • The National Assembly with Venus de Milo in the colours of the Olympic Games, which open in Paris in two weeks.

    France contemplates chaos after the general election with no clear winner and the Olympics just weeks away

  • A family photo of a young girl and a man wearing a sombrero in a garden, on a red background

    The story of a heat death: David went to work in his new job on a French building site. By the end of the day he was dead

12 July 2024

  • police escort two men

    Two French rugby players charged with aggravated rape in Argentina

    Prosecutors in Mendoza say players met the victim at a nightclub and violently assaulted her in a hotel room
  • an orange rescue vessel in the sea

    Four people drown trying to cross Channel near Boulogne-sur-Mer

    At least 56 people survive after early morning rescue involving French coastguard, navy boat and helicopter
  • Paris 2024: Venues, Ile-De-France, France - 11 Jul 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Mickael Chavet/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14582028dg) The Hôtel de Ville (Paris City Hall) and its eponymous square will see the start of the Athletics Marathon of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France Paris 2024: Venues, Ile-De-France, France - 11 Jul 2024

    ‘It might actually be cool’: wary Parisians seduced by prospect of Olympics

    Against a backdrop of political uncertainty, people in Paris seem sanguine about sporting spectacle despite grumbles over inconvenience
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