KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will undertake a series of visits to three countries: Italy, France, and Brazil, beginning July 1.

DUBAI, June 30 — The United Kingdom (UK), France, and Germany condemned what they described as threats against the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) watchdog, and called on Iran to guarantee the safety of IAEA staff on its territory.

PARIS, June 29 — Starting Sunday, smoking will be banned at bus stops and beaches across France, as the country steps up efforts to protect the public from the harmful effects of tobacco smoke, the German Press Agency (dpa) reported.

PARIS, June 16 — France shut down the main Israeli company stands at the Paris Air Show today for refusing to remove attack weapons from display, in a move condemned by Israel and highlighting tensions between the traditional allies.

PARIS, May 30 — France will ban smoking on beaches, in parks, outside schools and in other locations to protect children, Health and Families Minister Catherine Vautrin said.

VANNES, May 29 — A retired French surgeon who sexually abused hundreds of young patients, many of them children, over more than two decades, received a 20-year jail sentence on Wednesday, in France's worst ever child abuse case to go to trial.

JAKARTA, May 28 — French President Emmanuel Macron will meet his Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto in Jakarta today, and defence ties with Paris' biggest arms client in Southeast Asia are expected to be on the agenda.

PARIS, May 24 — France has detected four cases of the new Covid-19 variant NB.1.8.1 for the first time.

PARIS, May 16 — After watching frightening images of a prominent French crypto boss' daughter being attacked on a Paris street during a botched kidnapping, crypto executive Alexandre Aimonino finds solace in the changes he has made to his daily routine.

BEIJING, March 28 — China and France will hold three high-level dialogues on strategic, economic, financial and cultural issues this year, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said after meeting with his French counterpart in Beijing on Thursday.

PARIS, March 25 — Actor Gerard Depardieu went on trial yesterday over alleged sexual assaults on a film set, in a case that placed one of France's best-known movie stars at the heart of the country's broader reckoning over sexual violence.

VANNES, Mar 1 — When police told Louis-Marie, 35, they believed he had been sexually abused two decades earlier by a surgeon who treated him for appendicitis, he thought it was a prank.

VANNES, France, Feb 25 — A retired surgeon accused of raping and sexually assaulting hundreds of young patients, some while they were under anesthetic, told the opening of his trial in western France yesterday that he had committed "despicable" acts.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 — Malaysia and France have agreed to boost cooperation in the fields of defence, economy, energy, trade, investment, tourism and artificial intelligence, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said.

NANTES, Feb 18 — When police in western France searched surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec's home after he raped his six-year-old neighbour in 2017, they found a cache of sex dolls, wigs and child pornography.

PARIS, Feb 12 — French President Emmanuel Macron stressed that any solution to rebuild Gaza "must not come at the expense of disrespecting the rights of the Palestinians and regional sovereignty." The Palestinian News Agency reported him as saying that "the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip do not...

PARIS, Feb 7 — France and the United Arab Emirates agreed yesterday to a framework accord for a 1 gigawatt data centre dedicated to artificial intelligence that represents investments of between US$30–US$50 billion (RM135–RM225 billion), the French presidency said.

GEORGE TOWN, Jan 14 — France is looking forward to further progress and new initiatives under Malaysia's chairmanship of Asean this year, as Malaysia plays a key role as a driving force within the Southeast Asian bloc.

PARIS, Jan 7 — France on Tuesday commemorated the victims of the deadly assault on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine 10 years ago that began a spate of Islamist militant attacks on the country and stoked a debate on press freedoms that still rages today.

PARIS/MORONI — Several hundred people and possibly even thousands may have been killed when the most powerful cyclone in nearly a century hit the French Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte, a senior local French official said yesterday.