Nearly a decade after his first election as president, Emmanuel Macron is presiding over a tense country sliding toward the fiscal brink.

French far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Sunday celebrated high school students whose protest movement has shaken France as he called at a campaign rally for lowering the voting age to 16 and an end to selective admission to universities.

France student protests over crumbling schools expose deep tensions as Jean-Luc Mélenchon's La France Insoumise allegedly exploits the growing unrest.

Hackers raise temperatures in supermarket fridges, sparking fires and spoiling food in 'large-scale' cyberattack.

France is struggling to contain its biggest student protests in decades. What started as a demonstration in support of striking teachers at a suburban high school to the north of Paris has snowballed into a national crisis.

The French state is set to increase its stake in struggling miner Eramet, becoming its top shareholder in a bid to shore up the group’s finances and protect France’s access to critical minerals.

Members of French trade unions will join angry students on the streets on Tuesday for more strikes and protests. Many schools will be shut as teachers take part, too. The authorities are preparing for disorder. In recent weeks nearly 7,000 demonstrators have been arrested, 86% of them under the age of 18.

PARIS, Oct 12 (Reuters) - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and hard-left rival Jean-Luc Melenchon widened their lead over other candidates and would face each other in a run-off in all tested scenarios,