Topic: France 🇫🇷

Tens of thousands across France packed rallies for International Women's Day on Saturday, taking aim at persistent gender pay gaps, violence against women and male-dominated politics.

A Paris court has found the former head of France's domestic security services, Bernard Squarcini, guilty of influence-peddling and using public resources to benefit LVMH. The trial shed light on efforts by LVMH – the world's biggest luxury group – to protect its reputation.

France's gender equality legislation has helped narrow the pay gap by a third over the last 30 years. But women in the private sector still earn an average of 22 percent less than their male counterparts. RFI looks at what's behind the gap and what could be done to close it.

Emmanuel Macron has proposed opening a dialogue with other European countries on France's nuclear deterrent, raising questions about what a French nuclear umbrella over Europe might entail – although the Élysée has stressed that France is not seeking to deploy nuclear weapons outside the countr...

Some French consumers are looking for ways to do without American products to protest President Donald Trump’s policies on Ukraine. But close trading ties and the nature of multinational companies is making it tough to identify which products to boycott.

Eurostar services from Paris were cancelled on Friday after a World War II bomb was found on tracks leading to Gare du Nord, France's busiest terminal.

The daughter of convicted French rapist Dominique Pelicot said Thursday she had filed a complaint against her father accusing him of sexual abuse, after he was jailed for repeatedly sedating and raping her mother Gisele Pelicot along with dozens of strangers.

This is a handy little phrase to give your French more of a local feel.

Time Out magazine has released its awards for the world's best sandwich - and selected a French classic for the top spot.

If the United States will no longer fight for democracy, who will?

This week's must-reads from The Local include tips on getting a French mortgage, making a doctor's appointment, helpful grammar advice, and hidden castles in south-west France.

From walkouts in Parisian schools to a doctors’ protest and something for early-rising sky watchers, here's what is happening in France this week.