French prime minister heralds ‘new stage’ in Hollande presidencyManuel Valls makes ‘truth’, ‘efficacy’ and ‘confidence’ watchwords of policy addressWed Apr 09 2014 - 01:00
Threat of genocide stalks Central African Republic, Africa’s new heart of darknessInternational community hopes to help CAR but the slow drip of killings continuesMon Apr 07 2014 - 01:00
The Central African Republic, where Emperor Bokassa ruled with violence and greedHungry militiamen eat rats and dream of the army in ruined imperial estateSat Apr 05 2014 - 01:01
Children first victims of Central African Republic’s warUnder-18s are maimed and killed, recruited as soldiers and sex slavesFri Apr 04 2014 - 01:00
Clergy take a moral stand in Central African Republic conflictCatholic churchmen are being praised for showing ‘courage and leadership’ in protecting MuslimsThu Apr 03 2014 - 01:00
Suspicions over French role in CAR run deepCentral Africans are convinced that Paris imposes everything in beleaguered CARWed Apr 02 2014 - 01:00
Militia leaders trade rhetoric in Central African RepublicMuch of state has been laid waste and a fifth of population ethnically cleansedTue Apr 01 2014 - 01:00
Hatred festers as Muslims and Christians suffer in Central African RepublicHungry and damaged factions are the agents of each other’s miseryMon Mar 31 2014 - 01:00
Chadian peacekeepers kill eight in Central African RepublicPeacekeeping commander claims Chadian brigade had been fired onMon Mar 31 2014 - 01:00
Another Rwanda?Twenty years after the Hutu genocide of almost a million Tutsis, the lawless, forgotten Central African Republic is suffering a similar outbreak of violence. And the world is doing little to stop itSat Mar 29 2014 - 01:00
Low-key diplomatic heroism saved Paris from Hitler’s wrathGen Dietrich von Choltitz spared the French capital 70 years agoWed Mar 26 2014 - 01:00
Moving images that freeze timeThe work of US video artist Bill Viola, on show in Paris, has an otherworldly quality that astonishesMon Mar 24 2014 - 01:00
Sarkozy compares French judges to East German StasiFormer French president criticises media, judiciary and government in open letterSat Mar 22 2014 - 01:00
John Montague: in Heaney’s shadowPoet John Montague was 10 years older than Seamus Heaney and a good friend to the fellow northerner, whose gifts and good fortune overshadowed him and othersSat Mar 22 2014 - 01:00
Sarkozy phone recordings add to suspicions over alleged corruptionWire taps include former president and his lawyer rehearsing ‘fake’ conversationThu Mar 20 2014 - 01:00
Tánaiste brings Franco-Irish relations to 'new register'Irish diplomats hope Paris meetings will become tradition, comparable to Taoiseach’s Oval Office visit to WashingtonSat Mar 15 2014 - 01:01
Ukraine and Syria dominate Gilmore’s French tripForeign minister says he and French counterpart Laurent Fabius share ‘deep preoccupation’ with CrimeaFri Mar 14 2014 - 01:00
Tánaiste breaks the ice at French frozen food summitEamon Gilmore plays the role of economic diplomat while visiting ParisFri Mar 14 2014 - 01:00
Wire taps backfire on socialist governmentFrench prime minister admits he knew Sarkozy’s phone was tappedThu Mar 13 2014 - 01:00
Court retains use of Sarkozy’s datebooksFormer president had hoped to bar evidence in cases against himWed Mar 12 2014 - 01:00
History avenges France’s famous outcast empress Josephine de BeauharnaisAn exhibition in Paris celebrates the woman Napoleon divorced because she could not bear childrenWed Mar 12 2014 - 01:00
Sarkozy phone tapped in inquiry into suspected Gadafy linkPhones of former French president, his lawyer and two former ministers tappedSat Mar 08 2014 - 06:42
Presidential mistresses sue ‘Closer’ magazineValerie Trierweiler is awarded €12,000 while verdict in Julie Gayet case is awaitedFri Mar 07 2014 - 01:00
‘Sarko leaks’ scandal embarrasses French right prior to municipal electionsRecordings of former president made secretly by adviser denounced as ‘a kind of rape’Thu Mar 06 2014 - 01:00
French conservative leader denies impoverishing party to enrich his friendsTwo of Jean-Francois Copé’s closest aides allegedly raked in millions organising rallies for Sarkozy campaignSat Mar 01 2014 - 01:00
French entertainment workers protest at move to cut welfare regimeA special welfare arrangement stretching back to 1936 is under threatFri Feb 28 2014 - 01:00
Jacques Demy rides a new wave of interest all the way to CorkThe director is enjoying a comeback as an icon of French New Wave cinema, having fallen out of fashion by the time of his death in 1990Fri Feb 28 2014 - 01:00
New evidence in case of French billionaire accused of vote-buyingSenator Serge Dassault believed to have given away €7mThu Feb 27 2014 - 01:00
Ailing president (77) of Algeria seeks a fourth termMilitary factions jockey for power in the post-Bouteflika eraTue Feb 25 2014 - 00:59
Henri Cartier-Bresson: a perfect alignment of the head, heart and eyeA new exhibition of the work of the father of photojournalism shows how his work embodied the 20th centurySat Feb 22 2014 - 01:00
Francois Hollande honours Resistance heroesTwo women among the four whose remains are to be transferred to the PantheonFri Feb 21 2014 - 17:57
France and Germany seek to mend bridgesImproved relations credited to SPD presence in coalition and shift in Hollande’s policyFri Feb 21 2014 - 01:00
EU leaders meet to discuss Ukraine unrestFrench and German premiers to the forefront in call for targeted sanctionsThu Feb 20 2014 - 01:00
Body blows plus move to digital may render ‘Libération’ old newsFrench left-wing title was newspaper of the baby-boom generationMon Feb 17 2014 - 01:00
Third level: the view from abroadHow do the systems in other countries select, stream and educate students, and how do they pay for them? Our correspondents assess the degrees of differenceSat Feb 15 2014 - 01:00
More than a third of French voters agree with National Front ideasMarine Le Pen increases support for far-right but is more popular than her partyFri Feb 14 2014 - 01:00
Obama rolls out red carpet for Hollande as Franco-American relations get back on trackFrench president’s visit seen as olive branch after Syrian debacleTue Feb 11 2014 - 01:00
Kenny and Gilmore bask in praise for leadership on economyOECD chief praises State’s ‘amazing renaissance story’Sat Feb 08 2014 - 01:00
Taoiseach defends corporate tax policy at OECDKenny shrugs off French anger at loss of internet companies and backs efforts to close tax loopholesSat Feb 08 2014 - 01:00
Yahoo! move a blow to FranceTax, data secrecy and “ambiance” factors in Yahoo!’s move to IrelandFri Feb 07 2014 - 01:07
European parliament addresses Syrian hostage crisisGovernments of western hostages are finally working togetherThu Feb 06 2014 - 01:00
Uproar on French left as Hollande stalls family lawSocialists vow to circumvent government after move seen as placating protestersWed Feb 05 2014 - 01:00
‘French-style Tea Party’ takes to streetsCatholics, Muslims and the extreme right have united to protest at social policies including teaching of ‘gender theory’Tue Feb 04 2014 - 01:00
Have two mayoral candidates met their Paris match?Parisians have to choose between the deputy mayor and the flamboyant and combative woman who is hot on her heelsSat Feb 01 2014 - 01:00
The end of Yeats: work and women in his last days in FranceYeats had a late creative surge – including ‘one of the greatest ever death-bed utterances’ – before he died surrounded by his muses in France 75 years agoTue Jan 28 2014 - 01:00
Shades of the monarchy in Hollande's Trierweiler statementFrancois Hollande repudiated Valerie Trierweiler with one sentenceMon Jan 27 2014 - 01:00
Survey: Two-thirds of French people say there are too many immigrants in FranceSome facts and figuresThu Jan 23 2014 - 01:00
French National Front focuses on Islam in third phase of far-right strategyPolls show FN could win biggest percentage of vote in European parliamentary electionsThu Jan 23 2014 - 01:00
Renewal for ex-underage prostitute at centre of sex trialFranck Ribéry and Karim Benzema, whose trial began yesterday, are at risk of three years in prison and a fineTue Jan 21 2014 - 01:00
Inside Hollande’s love triangleThe French are entertained by the antics of President François Hollande, but will his new lover, Julie Gayet, become first lady, and will Valérie Trierweiler, his spurned former mistress, seek retribution?Sat Jan 18 2014 - 01:00
