English and Russian soccer fans hurling bottles and chairs clashed with each other and with French riot police in Marseille on Saturday ahead of their teams' opening Euro 2016 match.
Thousands of police surrounded the Stade de France on Friday ahead of the European Championship gala opener between the host country and Romania amid widespread security fears.
Flood damage, strikes and terror fears are the ingredients of a malaise gripping France five days before the Euro football tournament.
At the meeting, representatives from 28 countries, the Arab League, European Union and United Nations discussed ways in which the international community could “help advance the prospects for peace”
The rain-swollen River Seine in Paris reached its highest level in three decades on Friday, spilling its banks and prompting the Louvre museum to shut its doors and evacuate artworks in its basement.
Strikes halved French train services on Thursday but attempts by the militant CGT union to broaden protests against labour reforms to air traffic control and the Paris underground appeared to have failed.
France's fuel supply crisis is not yet over, the transport minister warned, while Prime Minister Manuel Valls was quoted as saying he was ready to ride out protests at ports and fuel depots by strikers.
Workers at nuclear power stations in France were set to go on strike Thursday, joining a growing protest movement against controversial labour market reforms ...
France said yesterday that it had been forced to dip into strategic fuel reserves due to blockades at refineries
France said Wednesday it will deploy more than 60,000 police to provide security for Euro 2016 as it vowed to ‘everything possible to avoid a terrorist attack’ ...
France's government stepped up efforts Tuesday to break blockades and strikes at refineries that are threatening to paralyse the country just three weeks ahead of the Euro 2016 football tournament.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Sunday France had enough fuel reserves to tackle shortages at hundreds of gas stations caused by workers blocking oil refineries and depots in protest at an unpopular labour reform.
