In a divided nation struggling with polarised politics, high debt, and a ballooning deficit, the task before 73-year-old ...

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named centrist ally François Bayrou as prime minister, after a historic ...

France's new prime minister Francois Bayrou faces a fractured and fractious parliament. Read more at straitstimes.com.

France hopes Italy can tip the scales against the EU-Mercosur trade deal. Giorgia Meloni may have other ideas.

Pope Francis urged Catholic priests on Sunday (Dec 15) to guard against spiritual groups that stoke political divisions, ...

Francois Bayrou came into the spotlight in the 2002 presidential campaign when he slapped a child who tried to pick his ...

Pope Francis on the first papal visit ever to the French island of Corsica promoted the kind of popular piety that ...

Within hours of being appointed, France's new prime minister Francois Bayrou faced his first ordeal: the country's credit ...

The fall of the French government could have dire consequences for New Caledonia, which is teetering on the brink of economic ...

The reopening of Notre Dame was a solemn celebration of cultural and spiritual renewal. Yet for some, the historic ...

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Mayotte is France's poorest region and is nearly 5,000 miles from Paris in the Indian Ocean - one witness said the damage wreaked by the cyclone looked like "the aftermath of a nuclear war".