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4 November 2025

  • People wade through the sea to board a small boat

    Concerns raised over planned second removal of Iranian who returned to UK on small boat

  • A film still from The Lost Boys of Mercury, of one of the survivors looking to the side

    The Lost Boys of Mercury review – heartbreaking film on the enduring wounds of church-school abuse

  • The Shein website.

    Shein to cooperate with French investigation into sale of childlike sex dolls

  • Composite image of Emilien close up smiling in front of a glitzy TV studio style background

    ‘I can quiz for 17 hours a day!’: how Émilien became Europe’s greatest ever gameshow winner

3 November 2025

  • Lammy in a suit and Green in a formal outfit, posing together for a photo

    French taxi driver cleared of stealing from David Lammy after fare dispute

    Nassim Mimun, who left with Lammy’s and his wife’s bags after ‘tone escalated’, acquitted owing to lack of evidence
  • Protesters outside the BHV department store hold up placards

    Outrage in Paris as Shein prepares to open its first permanent store

    Fast-fashion retailer faces political anger, fury from workers and warnings it will damage city’s progressive image
  • Police officers work on the platform at Huntingdon station following a mass stabbing on the train on 1 November.

    Brief letters
    Safety of train users and staff is paramount

    Brief letters: Problem with driver-only trains | A-level history | Unusual girl names | Theft in narrow daylight

2 November 2025

  • Three French policemen in dark blue uniforms, carrying weapons, walk in the courtyard of the Louvre in front of the glass pyramid at its entrance and the ornate, historic stone buildings; people are queuing and standing around outside the museum.

    Louvre jewel heist by petty criminals, not organised professionals, says Paris prosecutor

    Laure Beccuau said ‘upper echelons of organised crime’ unlikely to be involved as one perpetrator remains at large

1 November 2025

  • FILE: Actor Tchéky Karyo Dies At 72FILE - OCTOBER 31 - Actor Tchéky Karyo Dies At 72 LOS ANGELES - MARCH 25: Actor Tcheky Karyo arrives at the premiere of the movie "The Core" on March 25, 2003 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Getty Images)

    Veteran actor Tchéky Karyo, star of Nikita and The Missing, dies aged 72

    French-Turkish actor appeared in a string of high-profile films, as well as hit BBC series The Missing
  • French police officers next to a furniture elevator used by robbers to enter the Louvre

    Two more suspects charged over Louvre heist taking total to four

    Woman, 38, and man, 37, had been arrested on Wednesday in relation to theft of £76m worth of jewellery in Paris
  • Rokhaya Diallo

    Poor Nicolas Sarkozy. His hardline views on crime and punishment have come back to bite him

    Rokhaya Diallo
    The former French president zealously promoted a zero-tolerance penal system. Luckily for him, his prison visitors include powerful friends, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

31 October 2025

  • A city employee removing red handprint graffiti from the ‘wall of the righteous’ in Paris in May 2024.

    Russia link suspected as Bulgarians jailed for vandalising Paris Jewish memorial

  • Police vehicle outside in street outside red and grey building with two officers on foot

    Six arrested after €12m armed raid on gold refining lab in France

30 October 2025

  • Geert Wilders and Rob Jetten.

    Europe live with Jakub Krupa
    Dutch centrists D66 back in lead in election vote count, edging past far-right PVV – as it happened

  • The Princess of Wales and Prince William.

    Prince and Princess of Wales win privacy case against Paris Match

  • French CRS riot police walk near the glass Pyramid of the Louvre Museum

    Five new suspects arrested in connection with Louvre robbery

  • The French crown jewels in the Louvre’s golden room in Paris.

    France needs its own No Kings day to protect its most valuable treasure

    Patrick Boucheron and Pierre Singaravélou

29 October 2025

  • Gisèle Pelicot exits the courthouse accompanied by her son Florian Pelicot during the appeal trial in the Mazan rape case in Nîmes

    French parliament votes to add consent to rape law after Gisèle Pelicot case

    A historic move to change French criminal law would bring its legislation in line with many other European countries
  • French CRS riot police officers walk near the glass Pyramid of the Louvre Museum, after French police arrested suspects in the Louvre heist case, in Paris, France.

    Louvre suspects ‘partially admit’ their role in jewel heist

    Police are no closer to recovering gems valued at £76m, despite the arrest of two men last week
  • French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his wife Carla Bruni arrive at the BBC's Broadcasting House in London June 18, 2010. Elderly former members of the Free French joined President Sarkozy in London on Friday to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's radio appeal to his countrymen to resist Nazi occupation. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett (BRITAIN - Tags: CONFLICT POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT)

    Corruption in French politics is nothing new

    Letter: It is the scale and egregiousness of Nicolas Sarkozy’s corruption that mark out his case most starkly, writes Dr David Lees
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