France welcomed its first gay refugee from Chechnya on Monday on the same day French President Emmanuel Macron pushed Russian leader Vladimir Putin to investigate the brutal crackdown on gay men in the region.
Across France, a country all too familiar with the horror of terror attacks, leaders and organisations have been voicing their sympathy and support for the UK in light of the Manchester terror attack on Monday evening.
President elect Emmanuel Macron presented 428 candidates for the French Parliament on Thursday... but some of the candidates didn't even want to be on the list (and some should never have been there).
Emmanuel Macron unveiled his new faces this week and here's a look at some of those who will be standing as MPs, including a retired female bullfighter.
Emanuel Macron's new party Republique en Marche revealed the names of 428 candidates for the French parliament on Thursday including over 200 who were new to politics and half are women. However the party has refused to accept ex-PM Manuel Valls among its ranks.
The Socialist party has started proceedings that look likely to see Manuel Valls expelled from the party, hot on the heels of Valls' declaration of support for the president elect Emmanuel Macron.
French Socialist Benoit Hamon, who slumped to fifth place in the presidential election campaign, said on Wednesday he will launch a new leftwing movement.
Emmanuel Macron, 39, was elected as France's youngest president on Sunday, but his rivals are already plotting revenge in what many are now calling the most important vote of all.
Marine Le Pen might have had little chance of winning this year’s French election, but that might not be the case in 2022. Her far-right party, like the new president, is "on the move".
Emmanuel Macron has little time to bask in the glory of being elected France's youngest ever president. He must get to work right away, starting with his inauguration on May 14th
Pro-European centrist Emmanuel Macron promised Sunday to heal France's divisions after crushing far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a pivotal presidential election that has given him a large but fragile mandate for change.
People have come out in support of Macron and Le Pen both in France and abroad, while others remain firmly on the fence. Here's a breakdown of who's in whose camp.
The French capital, unlike other parts of the country, does not like Marine Le Pen much - in fact only five percent voted for her. So are Parisians losing sleep at the thought she could be the next French president?
Marine Le Pen was given a frosty welcome on her final campaign stop to the city of Reims on Friday where scores of protesters jeered her as she visited the cathedral. It comes as polls suggest rival Emmanuel Macron has stretched his lead.
French prosecutors have opened an investigation after Marine Le Pen repeated rumours that Emmanuel Macron had a hidden offshore bank account in the Bahamas during Wednesday night's live TV debate. Macron said her suggestion was "defamation".
The results of a survey among voters of defeated far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon spells bad news for Emmanuel Macron with two-thirds saying they will abstain in the second round runoff, rather than vote for him to help block Marine Le Pen.
