The Louvre remained closed Monday after historic jewels were stolen in a daring daylight heist.

The Louvre said it would remain closed for the day after Sunday’s jewels robbery in the world’s most-visited museum.

Officials say a boat carrying migrants has ripped apart in the English Channel as they tried to reach Britain from northern France, and 12 are dead.

French authorities are making wide use of discretionary anti-terror powers to keep hundreds of people they deem to be potential security threats away from the Paris Olympics.

French interior minister congratulated security forces after no major incident was reported during the opening ceremony.

On the eve of the Olympics opening ceremony in Paris, France's interior minister thanked Belgium for a string of raids that led to the detention of seven people for questioning over suspected terrorist activities.

Three days before the start of the 2024 Olympics, France’s interior minister says about 1,000 people suspected of possibly meddling for a foreign power have been blocked from attending the Olympics.

French authorities say a French alleged neo-Nazi sympathizer was sentenced to two years in prison after making threats online and was suspected of wanting to target the Olympic torch relay.

French authorities say a police officer has been wounded in a knife attack in Paris in the Champs-Elysees neighborhood.

French anti-terror police have detained an alleged neo-Nazi sympathizer suspected of wanting to target the Olympic torch relay.

French authorities have handed preliminary terrorism charges to an 18-year-old accused of a plot targeting spectators attending Olympic soccer games.

France’s Interior Minister says that a man who was shot and killed by police after a suspected arson attack on a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen was an Algerian national who’d sought medical treatment in France and wasn’t flagged as a suspected extremist.

A massive search is underway in France for a gang that killed two prison officers and seriously injured three others to free an inmate they were escorting.

French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man near a synagogue in Paris.

France’s interior ministry has ordered a large deployment of security forces around Paris as angry farmers threatened to head toward the capital.

Mauritius has lifted its highest storm alert and eased a nationwide curfew after a cyclone battered the Indian Ocean island and nearby French island of Reunion.

France's interior minister says the Olympic host country saw fewer of the car burnings that usually blight the arrival of a new year as it celebrated the start of 2024.

French President Emmanuel Macron says a contentious immigration bill backed by the far right is imperfect and needs some fixes but is “what the French wanted."

France's interior minister says police have arrested a man who targeted passersby in Paris, killing a German tourist with a knife and injuring two others.

French police say the Louvre Museum and Versailles Palace evacuated visitors and staff after receiving bomb threats.

France’s interior minister says the suspect in a deadly school stabbing had been detained for questioning the day before on suspicion of radicalism.

Hushed and visibly anguished, hundreds of mourners from France’s Islamic community formed a solemn procession from a mosque to a hillside cemetery on Saturday.

Social media companies are once again under scrutiny, this time in France as the country’s president blames TikTok, Snapchat and other platforms for helping fuel widespread riots over the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver.

Young rioters are clashing with police and looting stores across France for the fourth straight night of unrest.

France’s government has for the first time publicly laid out some of the gritty details of its security planning for the unprecedented opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has abruptly canceled a trip to Paris over remarks by the French interior minister criticizing the Italian premier’s migration policy.

French unions have called for new nationwide strikes and protests next week, which will coincide with King Charles III’s planned visit to France, after more than 1 million people demonstrated throughout the country against unpopular pension reforms.

French authorities say a shooting targeting a Kurdish cultural center in a bustling Paris neighborhood left three people dead and three others wounded.

A deal for Europe to jointly help asylum-seekers was breaking apart in a bitter French-Italian feud over a ship floating in the Mediterranean, its passengers and crew desperate for land.

A Black lawmaker says he was “deeply hurt” after a far-right member of the French parliament made a racist remark during a legislative session.

French President Emmanuel Macron has visited Paris’ main mosque to mark 100 years since it was built -- a stop to show how the French leader wishes to represent all factions of French society months after his reelection.

France’s interior minister has defended the use of tear gas to disperse fans amid disorder and chaos at the Champions League final in Paris, saying the move was crucial to prevent supporters getting killed.

French authorities have defended police for indiscriminately firing tear gas and pepper spray at Liverpool supporters at the Champions League final while blaming industrial levels of fraud that saw 30,000 to 40,000 people try to enter the Stade de France with fake tickets or none at all.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has defended his government’s treatment of Ukrainians fleeing war, after France accused U.K. authorities of “inhumane” behavior towards the refugees.

European Union interior ministers have agreed to create a new decision-making body in efforts to beef up the 27-nation bloc’s borders, and to kick-start desperately needed reforms to the EU’s malfunctioning asylum system.

France's interior minister says the country has opened 400 investigations into networks providing fake COVID-19 health passes.

France's interior minister says France will double the number of officers in charge of fighting smugglers after 27 people died last week trying to cross the Channel to get Britain in an overcrowded smuggling boat.

The EU's border agency will dispatch a plane to monitor the shores of the English Channel for migrant boats after 27 died last week when their smuggling boat sank en route to Britain.

France's president is urging European neighbors to do more to stop illegal migration into France after 27 people died in a sinking in the English Channel.

At least 31 migrants bound for Britain died when their boat sank in the English Channel, in what France’s interior minister called the biggest tragedy involving migrants on the dangerous crossing to date.

The president of France’s Bishops Conference said the country's Catholic Church made “a decisive step” after it agreed to provide financial compensation to sex abuse victims.

French President Emmanuel Macron has held an emergency cybersecurity meeting to weigh government responses after reports that his cell phone may have been targeted by spyware.

Authorities say a man with severe schizophrenia who had been on a French watch list for Islamic radicalism stabbed a police officer at her station in western France and shot two other officers before police killed him.

Thousands of French police officers have held a demonstration outside parliament to press for a law that protects the protectors.

French authorities detained a fourth person as anti-terrorism investigators questioned three others.

France’s parliament has passed a security bill to extend police powers that has prompted criticism from civil rights activists who fear it threatens efforts to denounce police abuse.

French authorities are investigating accusations that government ministers and others dined in secret restaurants in violation of pandemic restrictions.

FILE - In this Feb.20, 2021 file photo, supporters of the group Generation Identity hold a banner reading "Man does not dissolve a generation" during a demonstration in Paris. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced Wednesday the dissolution of the anti-migrant group Generation Identity during a Cabinet meeting on the ground it is encouraging discrimination in the country. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)PARIS – France on Wednesday dissolved an identity group that for years staged spectacular actions to get out its anti-migrant message in what it claimed was a mission to preserve French and European civilization. Doing away with Generation Identity, with its far-right stance, is widely seen as a balancing of the political cards. The president of Generation Identity, Clement Gandelin, did not return a phone call.

The wide-ranging bill, titled “Supporting respect for the principles of the Republic,” covers most aspects of French life. But Le Pen criticized the bill as too weak and offered what she called her own, tougher counter-proposal. The bill mentions neither Muslims nor Islam by name. The measure has been dubbed the "separatism" bill, a term used by Macron to refer to radicals who would create a “counter society” in France. Associations must sign a contract of respect for French values and pay back state funds, if they cross a line.

The bill is broad and controversial, with around 1,700 proposed amendments, and it guarantees heated debate for the next two weeks in the lower house. Multiple attacks in France by Islamist extremists provide a backdrop for the bill, even if recent violence was committed by outsiders. Other critics say the bill covers ground already addressed in current laws while far-right leader Marine Le Pen says the bill doesn’t go far enough or even name the enemy: radical Islam. It is necessary because “French society, the French nation is traumatized by attacks and the reality of radical Islam.” While radicals are a minority, “it's minorities that make up history,” Bencheikh added. The proposed law also seeks to halt the issuing by doctors of virginity certificates, the practice of polygamy and forced marriage.

This photo provided Saturday Jan. 2, 2021 by Techno+ Association shows a tent during a rave party in Lieuron, France, as ravers from France and abroad converged on a hangar on Thursday night to party into the New Year. Investigators found that organizers requested a financial contribution to take part in the party and that illicit drugs were in plentiful supply, Astruc said. Hundreds of people were also fined for using illicit drugs, he said. Ravers from France and abroad converged on a hangar in Lieuron on Thursday night to party into the New Year. The party took place despite France’s nationwide night-time curfew, which seeks to dissuade people from gathering during the pandemic.

PARIS – Lawmakers from French President Emmanuel Macron’s party will rewrite the most criticized article of a proposed security law, involving a measure aimed at banning the publication of images of police officers with intent to cause them harm. The move comes after tens of thousands of protesters marched Saturday in Paris and across the country to reject the draft law. Meanwhile, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin refused to simply withdraw the controversial Article 24, saying that events haven't changed his position. The bill, championed by Macron’s party, was first voted on at the National Assembly last week. They also say that it could restrict the public from filming police in cases that could be considered abuse or police brutality.

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin ordered several Paris police officers suspended after the publication of videos showing them beating up a Black man and using tear gas against him with no apparent reason. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin ordered the officers involved in the case suspended. They didn't stop beating him, the video of the violence (inside the studio) lasts for 12 minutes.”At some point the officers called in reinforcements and went outside. They then threw a tear gas grenade into the studio to get those inside to come out, according El Ali. It’s the second such police brutality investigation in Paris this week prompted by video footage.

A police officer stands in front of migrants in a makeshift camp set up Monday night Nov.23, 2020 on Place de la Republique in Paris. Paris police are under government orders to explain themselves after officers were filmed tossing migrants out of tents while evacuating a makeshift camp in the French capital. (Alexandra Henry/Utopia56 via AP)PARIS – France’s interior minister ordered an internal police investigation Tuesday after officers were filmed tossing migrants out of tents while evacuating a protest camp in Paris. Aid groups and the government were working to find temporary lodging for hundreds of migrants forcibly removed from the short-lived camp on the Place de la Republique in eastern Paris on Monday night. The Paris police headquarters said in a statement that the Republique camp was evacuated because it was illegal, and “invited” the migrants to seek lodging elsewhere offered by the state or aid groups.

French believers stand and chant religious songs in front of Saint Sulpice Catholic church, in Paris, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. Dozens of believers gather to protest against the government measures to close churches as part of the monthlong partial lockdown to stop fast-rising virus hospitalizations and deaths. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)PARIS – With banners reading “Let us Pray” and “We Want Mass,” Catholic protesters held scattered demonstrations around France on Sunday to demand that authorities relax virus lockdown measures to allow religious services. One of France’s earliest virus clusters was traced to an evangelical religious gathering near Strasbourg in February. To date, France has reported 44,246 virus-related deaths, and today COVID-19 patients occupy 96% of the country's standard intensive care unit capacity.

Emmanuel Macron said the group will be ordered dissolved Wednesday, when a mosque that relayed a denunciation of the teacher is also to shut. The French president is waging war on what he calls “separatism,” referring to Islamist extremism that authorities say has created a parallel world in the country that counters French values. A mosque in the northeast Paris suburb of Pantin is being closed for six months starting Wednesday night. The Pantin mosque is being punished for relaying the angry father's message on social media that called for mobilization against the teacher. Authorities say the mosque has long had an imam following the Salafist path, a rigorous interpretation of the Muslim holy book.

Paty had discussed caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad with his class, leading to threats, police officials said. He also confirmed that a Twitter account under the name Abdoulakh A belonged to the suspect. A police official said the suspect was shot dead about 600 meters (yards) from where Paty died. France has offered asylum to many Chechens since the Russian military waged war against Islamist separatists in Chechnya in the 1990s and early 2000s. This is the second time in three weeks that terror has struck France linked to caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

French President Emmanuel Macron denounced what he called an "Islamist terrorist attack" against a history teacher decapitated in a Paris suburb Friday, urging the nation to stand united against extremism. (Abdulmonam Eassa, Pool via AP)PARIS – For the second time in three weeks, terror struck France, this time with the gruesome beheading of a history teacher in a street in a Paris suburb. French President Emmanuel Macron denounced what he called an “Islamist terrorist attack” and urged the nation to stand united against extremism. Macron visited the school where the teacher worked in the town of Conflans-Saint-Honorine and met with staff after the slaying. ... Why does a history teacher behave this way in front of 13-year-olds?” the man asked.

French President Emmanuel Macron, center, gestures towards French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, right, as he meets police officers rescuers in Breil-sur-Roya, southeastern France, Wednesday, Oct.7, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting the mountainous area near the Mediterranean coast Wednesday, and promised government aid to flood victims. “Together we will surmount this.”Speaking from the village of Breil-sur-Roya, Macron praised the “courage” and “solidarity” of rescuers and residents and promised government aid to flood victims. “Thank you, thank you, you were brave,” Macron told firefighters and other rescuers both in Tende and Breil-sur-Roya, before heading to Saint-Martin-Vesubie. About 3,000 homes were still without electricity in the area Wednesday, according to French energy company Enedis.

From the left, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, anti-terrorism state prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard , and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin answer reporters after a knife attack near the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, Friday Sept. 25, 2020 in Paris. French terrorism authorities are investigating a stabbing of two people outside the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and two suspects have been arrested, authorities said. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)PARIS – The chief suspect in a double stabbing in Paris told investigators he acted out of anger over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad recently republished by the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, France's counterterrorism prosecutor said Tuesday. The two brothers involved in the 2015 attack targeted Charlie Hebdo because they believed the newspaper blasphemed Islam by publishing the same Muhammad caricatures. Charlie Hebdo lost 12 employees in an al-Qaida attack in 2015 by French-born extremists who had criticized the prophet cartoons.

But has France really grown more savage as Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says? Or is the problem a growing sense of insecurity fueled by the word savage itself, as Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti contends? But has France really grown more savage, as Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says? Or is the problem a growing sense of insecurity fueled by the word savage itself, as Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti contends? The justice minister says the word "savage itself is the root of France's security problem.

Women's rights activists protest against French President Emmanuel Macron's appointment of an interior minister who has been accused of rape and a justice minister who has criticized the #MeToo movement, in front of Paris city hall, in Paris, France, Friday, July 10, 2020. Gerald Darmanin, Interior Minister, firmly denies the rape accusation, and an investigation is underway. New Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti is a lawyer who has defended a government member accused of rape and sexual assault, and has ridiculed women speaking out thanks to the #MeToo movement. The actions started Friday morning in Dijon, where new Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin and Prime Minister Jean Castex were meeting with police. The young, diverse crowd most in masks demanded Darmanins resignation and exuded anger at Macron, who had promised to make fighting sexual violence a grand cause of his term.

Newly appointed Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, center, talks to police officers during a visit of a police headquarters in Les Mureaux, outside Paris, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. (Thomas Samson, Pool via AP)PARIS Womens rights groups are protesting French President Emmanuel Macrons appointment of an interior minister who has been accused of rape and a justice minister who has criticized the #MeToo movement. The new interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, is under preliminary investigation over a rape accusation that he firmly denies. Womens rights groups are also angry over the appointment of provocative lawyer Eric Dupond-Moretti as justice minister. In his government reshuffle Monday, Macron replaced the high-profile womens rights minister behind that law, Marlene Schiappa, who will now work under Darmanin in a new role focusing on citizenship questions.