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The first round of the French presidential elections is set to take place on Sunday of this week.

Ahmed Ben Bella became the first president of independent Algeria, after leading the struggle against the brutal rule of French colonialism.

This anti-war classic by French director Jean Renoir has been reissued in a restored print for its 75th anniversary.

The streets of Toulouse in the south of France were alive with red flags and banners on Thursday of last week.

The murders of three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, last week were horrific acts. They followed the shooting of three soldiers, two of them Muslims, in Toulouse and nearby Montauban the week before.

It remains to be seen what impact events in Toulouse last week will have on France’s presidential election campaign.

The man who allegedly claimed to be responsible for the recent killings in France, Mohamed Merah, is dead after a stand off with police in the French city of Toulouse which began yesterday, Wednesday.

Three Jewish children and a rabbi were murdered on Monday in what appears to be the worst antisemitic attack in France in recent history.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a vicious racist campaign against Muslims, Jews and immigrants.

As the French presidential elections near, Sylvestre Jaffard charts the declining fortunes of Nicolas Sarkozy and looks at the dangers from the right, with the fascist Marine Le Pen buoyed by the polls, and the opportunities for the left to challenge neoliberalism and austerity

‘Long live Sarkozy!’What infant school children were forced to chant last week when French president Nicolas Sarkozy visited their school

French foreign minister Alain Juppé became the latest western leader to visit Burma this week, following fast on the footprints of Britain’s William Hague and the US’s Hilary Clinton.