three fires were reported near the tracks on the high-speed lines of Atlantique, Nord and Est, causing disruptions that affected hundreds of thousands of travellers.

Here are some of Thursday's top headlines, including several arrests by French police ahead of the opening of the Olympic Games, California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order instructing local officials to clear thousands of homeless encampments statewid...

The preliminary investigation was opened after a report from the National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Financing dating from 2023.

Tensions are high as left-wing and moderate groups try to prevent the anti-immigration, nationalist National Rally from winning an historic absolute legislative majority.

Marine Le Pen's RN came out well ahead in Sunday's first-round vote after President Emmanuel Macron's gamble on a snap election backfired.

Far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the European Union with major gains in parliamentary seats, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to the French president.

An unknown soldier from Newfoundland who died in the First World War was returned to St. John's Saturday. He will be officially laid to rest on July 1, Memorial Day.

Sean Baker is the first American filmmaker to win the Palme d'Or since Terrence Mallick in 2012.

A massive manhunt is underway in France after armed men ambushed a prison van, killing two guards to free an inmate. France's justice minister swore police would capture them.

France has become the first country in the world to create a right to abortion, guaranteeing citizens access. Lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the measure.

French lawmakers will vote Monday whether to enshrine a right to abortion in the country's constitution. It would be the first country to do so.

French regulators criticized a surveillance system set up to monitor the performance of Amazon staff and said some measures in place were illegal.

Binance got Bitcoin Services Provider license from the Central Reserve Bank