France
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From the archive, 28 May 1987: The trial of Klaus BarbieOriginally published in the Guardian on 27 May 1987: Children’s ghosts confront the ‘butcher of Lyons’ in French courthouse
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French bartender sentenced after customer drinks 56 shots and diesThe bartender, who received a four-month suspended sentence, admitted he made a mistake in publicising the shots record and encouraging the victim -
Pitfalls of Cameron’s EU talks strategyLetters: Cameron’s EU renegotiation strategy seems based on the assumption that other member states will make significant concessions to keep the UK in the club. But are they really that fussed about Brexit?
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France president François Hollande adds resistance heroines to PanthéonGeneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz and Germaine Tillion become third and fourth women interred among 74 men in mausoleum of honour
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France: no Iran nuclear deal if military site inspections are blockedFrench foreign minister Laurent Fabius urges other negotiators to take a tough stance if ayatollah Khamenei continues to resist inspections
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Inquiry into how Air France plane narrowly missed African volcanoFrench accident investigators examine manoeuvre that put Boeing 777 with 37 people on board on course to hit 4,040-metre-high Mount Cameroon
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Steve Bell on David Cameron's EU negotiations – cartoonDavid Cameron’s current handicap is that the more Germany and France talk up eurozone convergence, the more they play into the hands of Britain’s Eurosceptics
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French farmer goes on trial for killing suspected truffle thiefLaurent Rambaud had repeatedly complained about thefts of ‘black diamonds’ from his land in south-east France
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France: judges clear way for Sarkozy to rename UMP party Les RépublicainsParty leader plans name-change, but Socialists argue that French people of all political persuasions call themselves republicans
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Four international flights to JFK and Newark subject to anonymous threatsFBI says US military jets scrambled to escort Air France Flight 22 while Saudi, United and American Airlines flights are also subject to threats
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How young writer captured cultural heart of Paris by staging English theatreNovelist’s plan for a night of fringe plays in his flat grows into biannual week-long festival and competition, Montmartre Dionysia
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Eiffel Tower closed as staff protest against pickpocketing - video
The Eiffel Tower was closed to the public for most of Friday as employees walked out over a rise in pickpocketing
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France to force big supermarkets to give unsold food to charitiesLegislation barring stores from spoiling and throwing away food is aimed at tackling epidemic of waste alongside food poverty
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UK tops chart of EU food wasteFrance has announced measures to tackle food waste as the EU throws away 89m tonnes of food each year – and the UK is one of the worst offenders
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Eiffel Tower shuts as staff walk out over rise in pickpocketsPopular Paris landmark closes to public for most of Friday amid protest against increase in aggressive pickpockets
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Dunkirk flotilla docks in France to honour second world war missionFleet of ships arrives from Kent to commemorate 75th anniversary of Operation Dynamo, in which hundreds of thousands of allied soldiers were rescued
Women in France's Pantheon? I propose Josephine Baker