France appears on this page as a World Cup contender, a diplomatic host and a domestic story. On the pitch, coverage follows the sweltering 1-0 win over Paraguay and the storming of Iraq after a two-hour weather delay, with Mbappe marking his 100th cap with a brace. Off it, the page tracks G7 leaders gathering in Évian, the 2026 budget pushed through with a defence boost while pension reform is shelved, the scrapped FCAS fighter project with Germany, the extended one-in, one-out migrant returns scheme with the UK, and the country's first confirmed Ebola case.
Kylian Mbappe's 70th-minute penalty in 38C Philadelphia heat sent France into a World Cup quarter-final against Morocco — and proved they can win ugly.
The French experimental singer frames her ambitious new record around motherhood, loss and the sense that the wider world is in pain.
A chaotic, thunderstorm-hit night in Philadelphia ended in a clear 3-0 win that sent France into the knockout stage, with Kylian Mbappe scoring twice and Ousmane Dembele adding his first major-tournament goal.
Health ministry says contacts are being traced and the risk to the European public is very low, as attention turns to hospital isolation procedures and cross-border readiness.
Brussels has agreed a sweeping new EU Returns Regulation just as the New Pact on Migration and Asylum takes effect — reshaping the legal landscape around the UK's 'one-in, one-out' arrangement with France.
Europe's most ambitious defence programme, the sixth-generation Future Combat Air System, has been abandoned for its core jet after Airbus and Dassault failed to agree on who would lead the work.
France hosts the Group of Seven in the lakeside town of Évian, where the aftermath of the Iran war and economic friction with Beijing are set to dominate, alongside high-stakes sideline talks.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu used special constitutional powers to adopt a delayed budget that lifts military spending sharply, while suspending the contested rise in the retirement age.
The pilot, which swaps Channel arrivals for asylum seekers with UK ties, is extended and amended — but figures show it has so far affected only a fraction of crossings.