Mayotte in the southeastern Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa is France’s poorest island and the poorest territory in the ...

Pope Francis urged people to “make children” as he made his first papal visit to the French island of Corsica on Sunday.

The visit to Corsica’s capital Ajaccio, the birthplace of Napoleon, is one of the briefest of his papacy beyond Italy’s borders, just about nine hours on the ground, including a 40-minute visit with ...

Pope Francis urged Catholic priests on Sunday to guard against spiritual groups that stoke political divisions, speaking ...

Pope Francis landed in Corsica on Sunday for the first ever visit by a pontiff to the French Mediterranean island, AFP reporters saw.

Francois Bayrou will face a fractured and fractious parliament where one of his earliest tasks will be to pass a budget for ...

The French president appointed a seasoned centrist to referee between rowdy political factions.

President Emmanuel Macron on Friday tapped François Bayrou, a veteran centrist politician and one of his top allies, as the ...

The pro-Western incumbent, President Salome Zurabishvili, has refused to step down and is demanding new parliamentary elections, but the opposition plans to nominate a former soccer star as president, ...

Bayrou, 73, a crucial partner in Macron’s centrist alliance, has been a well-known figure in French politics for decades.

Among the roughly 1,500 people whose sentences were commuted or who were pardoned by President Joe Biden are a nonprofit ...

French President Emmanuel Macron named Francois Bayrou his fourth prime minister of 2024 on Friday. The veteran centrist will ...