Noemie Bisserbe

PARIS—A pair of thieves stole four artworks from a French museum dedicated to the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in a sign of the country's struggle to protect its cultural heritage following last year's Louvre heist.

President Macron announced plans to send soldiers, radar and defense systems to protect the Yanbu oil pipeline and refinery.

PARIS—President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that France plans to send troops to Saudi Arabia to help protect a refinery and crude oil pipeline

A French news outlet reported this week that Le Pen’s fresh-faced protégé wrote antisemitic private messages more than a decade ago.

PARIS—For more than a decade Marine Le Pen has sought to distance her party from its antisemitic past, elevating her fresh-faced protégé Jordan Bardella to the highest ranks of the National Rally.

PARIS—France's finance minister said the government is prepared to exercise special constitutional powers and circumvent Parliament to pass billions in spending cuts if negotiations stall over next year's budget.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon has seized on student demonstrations and transformed himself into a real contender for France’s highest office.

PARIS—Jean-Luc Mélenchon has vowed to cancel hundreds of billions of euros in France's national debt, prosecute its central bank governor, nationalize swaths of the economy and pull out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The measures, including new teachers and school renovations, are unlikely to quell a crisis widening into broader cost-of-living protests.

PARIS—The French government announced new teaching posts, expanded university admissions and billions of euros in loans for school renovations in its first significant concessions to student protests that have roiled the nation.