France is bracing for a heavy death toll in its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, its poorest department, after cyclone Chido ravaged the island over the weekend and threatened a humanitarian ...

Francois Bayrou, the country’s fourth prime minister this year, faces an agenda packed with political divisions, fiscal woes ...

President Macron reluctantly appoints a would-be ‘reconciler’ as prime minister, while rightist Marine Le Pen rides even ...

Within hours of being appointed, France’s new prime minister Francois Bayrou faced his first ordeal: the country’s credit ...

Mayotte is France's poorest region and is nearly 5,000 miles from Paris in the Indian Ocean - one witness said the damage wreaked by the cyclone looked like "the aftermath of a nuclear war".

So farewell Michel Barnier, the man who will now be best remembered not as the suave face of the EU in the Brexit ...

The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido is "several hundred" and may run into the thousands, the ...

Francois Bayrou came into the spotlight in the 2002 presidential campaign when he slapped a child who tried to pick his ...

PARIS - When veteran centrist Francois Bayrou, France's new prime minister, was education minister in the 1990s, his plan to increase subsidies for private schools led to nationwide protests. He ...

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named centrist ally François Bayrou as prime minister, after a historic ...