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President Emmanuel Macron of France named the choices less than three weeks after the previous government collapsed. He had already picked François Bayrou as prime minister.

President Emmanuel Macron’s newly picked prime minister wasted no time in putting a pointed distance between himself and France’s weakened leader.

His government on shaky ground, Prime Minister François Bayrou offered to reopen debate on the measure, which raised the retirement age in an effort to stabilize the country’s finances.

Élisabeth Borne, only the second woman to occupy the position, stepped down as President Emmanuel Macron tries to inject fresh energy into his second term.

Many believe the legislation to raise the retirement age to 64 from 62 will pass Parliament, and they are looking beyond the vote to fight on.

Forty-seven soldiers were shot dead and secretly buried shortly after D-Day, a veteran says. The story was hidden for decades.

For 25 years, France has said schools must teach sex ed. Now the government is at last putting a curriculum in place.

The vote by lawmakers comes after supporters of the measure in France were galvanized by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Joël Guerriau, a centrist representing a region of western France, is under investigation over suspicion that he spiked a colleague’s drink with the intention of sexually assaulting her.

A long-simmering dispute pitting one of the world’s top athletes against France’s biggest soccer club has broken out into legal warfare.