Hostages have been taken in a jewellery store in Montpellier, Southern France. The new incident is evolving shortly after hostages were freed in Paris and Charlie Hebdo suspects killed in Northern France. According to the media, two people are being held in a shop in the center of the city. The police have surrounded the area. There is no precise information yet about the siege. However, the media... 

France has summoned the US ambassador after reports emerged that the National Security Agency (NSA) has recorded millions of French telephone calls. The French daily Le Monde recently published a report which showed that the NSA spy agency secretly taped more than 70 million phone conversations in France over a 30-day period this year. Paris summoned US Ambassador Charles Hammerman Rivkin for explanation... 

France’s Interior Minister Manuel Valls said that there was a need to review the country’s migration policy in relation to Africans and questioned the compatibility of Islam and democracy. France has long been assimilating immigrants, but in recent years the situation has changed, and the locals are now the ones that are asked to adjust. At a government meeting dedicated to the major challenges... 

Muslim women are not allowed to wear the face veil in France. At least five people have been injured in France after clashes broke out between police forces and hundreds of Muslim protesters in a town west of the capital, Paris. Clashes broke out in the town of Trappes late Friday, resulting in the arrest of at least six people. The nearly 300 demonstrators were protesting the arrest of a man whose... 

The logo of France’s Directorate-General for External Security France’s secret services illegally have been spying on the citizens by monitoring their telephone and internet communications as well as internet searches, a report says. On Thursday, French daily Le Monde reported that the country’s security services had stored the data from communications on a supercomputer at the headquarters of...