Three reactors at the Gravelines nuclear plant near Calais in north-est France shut down automatically after their coolant ...

France waged a 'war' with 'repressive violence' before and even after its former colony gained independence in 1960, declared ...

To the backdrop of a second major heatwave in France this summer, a political debate has opened over the use of air-conditioning, which the far-right has promised to encourage with a 'major' ...

Amid increasing tensions between France and Algeria, notably over refusal by Algiers to accept its deported nationals and ...

The vast wildfire that last week swept through around 16,000 hectares of land in the Corbières region of southern France also ...

The gigantic wildfire which, in barely more than 48 hours, burnt through about 17,000 hectares (42,000 acres) of vegetation ...

Local winemakers and mayors have blamed the state-subsidized uprooting of vineyards in the Corbières region of southern ...

Media revelations about the use of outlawed filtering of mineral water by French companies, chief among them Nestlé's ...

In 1899 a French-led military expedition left widespread carnage and death in its wake as it marched across parts of West ...

A 47-year-old Moroccan man is being held in police custody after he was filmed lighting a cigarette from the 'eternal flame' ...

Beginning in May, Mediapart has been publishing a series of reports regularly sent to it from inside the Gaza Strip by two ...

One person has died and at least nine others injured, one seriously, in what has become the largest wildfire in France since ...