France’s Marine Le Pen questioned in court at EU embezzlement trial | European Union News

France’s Marine Le Pen questioned in court at EU embezzlement trial | European Union News

Marine Le Pen and her RN party have been accused of using European Parliament money to pay staff in France between 2004 and 2016. French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has strongly denied committing any wrongdoing at a Paris court as she and her National Rally (RN) party stand trial…

Marine Le Pen’s niece starts own party: What it means for French far-right | The Far Right News

Marine Le Pen’s niece starts own party: What it means for French far-right | The Far Right News

The niece of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has founded her own political party aimed at becoming a new force in the country’s growing right-wing bloc. In an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro on Monday, Marion Marechal, 34, announced the launch of Identite-Libertes (Identity-Freedoms) – or IDL –…

France, Qatar deliver urgent aid to Lebanon, French foreign minister says | Politics News

France, Qatar deliver urgent aid to Lebanon, French foreign minister says | Politics News

French and Qatari military planes deliver 27 metric tonnes of medicines and basic necessities to Lebanon. France and Qatar delivered urgent humanitarian aid to Lebanon on Tuesday, France’s foreign minister said, as Paris pushes for broader humanitarian efforts and a ceasefire in the country. “If we don’t do anything, then…

European police to reopen cold cases to identify 46 women’s remains | Crime News

European police to reopen cold cases to identify 46 women’s remains | Crime News

Campaign that began in 2023 in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands expanded to include France, Italy and Spain. Interpol and police in six European countries are reopening investigations into the cases of 46 women who were murdered or died under suspicious circumstances in an effort to identify their remains, the…

Paul Pogba drug ban reduced to 18 months, can play football from March | Football News

Paul Pogba drug ban reduced to 18 months, can play football from March | Football News

Pogba’s four-year doping ban is slashed on appeal, opening the door to the French star signing with a new club. Paul Pogba’s doping suspension has been cut from four years to 18 months after experts supported the French football player’s insistence that he had unintentionally ingested a banned substance, the…

Netanyahu blasts Macron, other Western leaders who support Israeli arms embargo a ‘disgrace’
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Netanyahu blasts Macron, other Western leaders who support Israeli arms embargo a ‘disgrace’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed French President Emmanuel Macron and other Western leaders on Saturday who he said had called for an arms embargo on Israel over its airstrikes against Hamas in Gaza.  “As Israel fights the forces of barbarism led by Iran, all civilized countries should be standing firmly by…

Netanyahu calls French call to stop weapons sales used in Gaza ‘a disgrace’ | Israel attacks Lebanon

Netanyahu calls French call to stop weapons sales used in Gaza ‘a disgrace’ | Israel attacks Lebanon

NewsFeed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again employed rhetoric to cast his war on Palestinians in Gaza as ‘defending civilisation against barbarism’. This time, he was condemning France’s President Emmanuel Macron who called for an end to the sales of weapons to Israel that will be used in…

Toddler ‘trampled to death’ as migrants try to cross English Channel | Migration News

Toddler ‘trampled to death’ as migrants try to cross English Channel | Migration News

At least four people, including a two-year-old, die in two attempts to cross the channel on crowded boats. A two-year-old has been crushed to death and three other people have been killed in two attempts to cross the English Channel using overcrowded boats, French authorities say. “A child was trampled…

PM Barnier tells parliament France must trim its ‘colossal’ debt | Politics News

PM Barnier tells parliament France must trim its ‘colossal’ debt | Politics News

New French PM promises ‘targeted tax hikes’ and spending cuts in order to cut budget deficit, national debt. France’s new Prime Minister Michel Barnier has outlined the policy programme of his new government, seeking to shore up its fragile position just three weeks after taking office. In his first policy…