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The Bank of France (BdF) says it has pulled the remaining gold held in New York and replaced it with a similar amount of gold bars in its vaults in Paris. The gold amounted to 129 tonnes — or about 5% ...

Zinedine Zidane will succeed Didier Deschamps as France national team head coach in the summer, with a verbal agreement already reached between the former Real Madrid star and the Fédération Française ...

One year before Emmanuel Macron’s term ends, parties will be able to gauge their strength in the second round of the local elections, with tight races in major cities, such as Paris, Marseille and ...

Paris, France – A couple of days after the United States and Israel launched their assault on Iran, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on March 2 that France would bolster its nuclear arsenal ...

Paris, France – Nearly 50 years ago, the former Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini spent about three months in the village of Neauphle-le-Chateau, west of Paris, recording speeches that helped encourage the ...

"I have ordered the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, its air assets, and its escort of frigates to set course for the Mediterranean," he said in a televised speech a day after he warned of the risk ...

A picture taken on Feb. 25, 2026, shows the French aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle while moored at the quay of the North Port in Malmo, Sweden. (Johan Nilsson / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP via Getty ...

It was a theatrical display of national power. Escorted by fighter jets, Emmanuel Macron on March 2nd flew to the high-security naval base at Île Longue, Brittany, and spoke in front of one of ...

PARIS—France will increase its stockpile of nuclear warheads and may, for the first time, temporarily deploy them on allies’ territory, effectively broadening the country’s nuclear deterrence amid ...

France will boost its nuclear arsenal and offer to temporarily deploy nuclear-capable fighter jets to allied countries in a massive realignment of Europe’s defense structure. “A strengthening of our ...

France will bring European nations into nuclear military drills and could allow its neighbors to host nuclear-capable fighter planes for the first time, President Emmanuel Macron announced Monday, as ...