By Helen Reid LONDON (Reuters) -Chinese online fashion platform Shein is ramping up its fight in France, gambling that its first permanent shop, in a Paris department store, will help fend off fierce pushback from lawmakers against its low-cost model.

France's National Film Board is doubling down on Asia as the region emerges as a vital creative force in a shifting global entertainment landscape.

France is the latest country to change its criminal code to a consent-based definition of rape, but other developed countries still haven’t.

Online retail platforms Shein, Temu, AliExpress and Wish are being investigated in France over alleged dissemination of contents including child pornography on their marketplaces, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.

The French government will begin closed-door talks with lawmakers this week in a bid to salvage a budget from a bitter, slow-moving parliamentary debate that risks toppling Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu.

France proposes new tax rules, classifying crypto as 'unproductive wealth' under country's wealth-tax regime for digital assets.

Iran has released two French nationals imprisoned there for more than three years, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, in an apparent exchange for an Iranian student who was conditionally freed in October.

FRANCE is stalling migrant deportations under the new returns agreement to get more cash out of Britain. A top official said Paris is “dragging their feet, holding the deal hostage” in order to