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French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said that despite widespread protests he remains committed to a proposed labor law that will make it easier for companies to fire workers under the age of 26. Villepin...

A Council of Europe report to be officially released on Wednesday contains a scathing 200-page criticism of France's record on human rights. The report, based on inspections of prisons and police precincts in September 2005, cites a...

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin Thursday presented a draft bill to the French cabinet introducing the concept of selective immigration . Under the proposed bill, immigration by highly skilled...

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced Monday that the number of anti-Semitic and racist acts reported in France dropped significantly in 2005. Anti-Semitic acts (defined as violence or threats...

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that the French government has begun the deportation of seven foreigners found guilty of taking part in last month's rioting , making good his promise to...

French President Jacques Chirac offered apologies Monday to 13 people who were wrongly convicted of pedophilia and spent 16-39 months in jail. Chirac called the convictions a "judicial disaster without precedent" and...

A Paris court on Thursday overturned the convictions of six people who were found guilty of pedophilia last year. The six, and several others, had been accused of raping their own and other children, after a...

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced Tuesday that he would introduce stricter immigration controls as part of the French government's response to the riots started by immigrant youth that broke out across...

The National Assembly , the lower house of the French parliament, began debate Wednesday on a new anti-terror law said to have been partly prompted by the July 7 London bombings and the apparent...

France's Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that the government has authorized local officials to use emergency powers to help deal with riots that have broken out across the country over the past...