France

The diplomatic war of words across the Channel has escalated fast.

We spoke to Claude-Emmanuel Triomphe, who survived the 2015 Paris terror attack with serious injuries to his chest and leg

Twenty men have gone on trial in Paris, accused over the 2015 terror attacks by the extremist Islamic State group which left 130 people dead. 

While Boris Johnson faces a row over whether to introduce a vaccine passport system here, the French government have extended their scheme amid a surge in Covid cases there. From Monday people must show a Covid health pass to get into cafes and bars, along with trains and planes. It has brought thousands of protestors…

France will double the number of police patrolling its beaches after receiving more than £50 million from the UK government to reduce the number of people trying to cross the English Channel.

Emmanuel Macron has announced that France is to go into a new national lockdown.

France has performed a stunning reversal as it declared its older citizens can now be given the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. Last month the jab was restricted solely to the under-65s.

Traffic to Dover had already been disrupted for more than a week, but the travel ban put in place by France last night has piled on the pressure in Kent.

President Macron is still pushing ahead with some controversial measures – not least, a draft law to establish what’s described as French Islam.

France is on its highest level of security alert, after three people died in a knife attack in a church.

In France anti-terrorism police are investigating the beheading of a teacher in a suburb of Paris.

France too has come up with a new slogan for combating the virus.

France is preparing for a potentially record-breaking heatwave. Temperatures are forecast to hit 40 degrees Celsius later this week. Authorities in Paris have enacted an extreme heat plan, fearing a repeat of the conditions which killed an estimated 15,000 people in France in 2003. Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain are also preparing for oppressive heat.

Yellow Vest protestors in Paris have set fire to vehicles and barricades – many declaring that rebuilding the fire damaged Notre Dame cathedral shouldn’t be the government’s only priority.

Demonstrators set fire to cars and barricades in the middle of the Champs-Elysées, with police firing tear gas and water cannons in response. President Macron has refused to back down over the tax increases, insisting it’s part of his strategy to combat climate change.