France controls the second-largest maritime area in the world, spread over 10 million square kilometres. About 27 percent of this is in the Indian Ocean. The Îles Éparses (Scattered Islands ...

France controls the second-largest maritime area in the world, spread over 10 million square kilometres. About 27 percent of this is in the Indian Ocean. The Îles Éparses (Scattered Islands ...

Since the start of the year, 262 imported cases have been identified in mainland France in people who had travelled from Réunion Island. Health authorities continue to urge residents to protect ...

It's also a tiny village, home to just 30 residents. But the tidal island welcomes around 3 million visitors a year. Our colleagues at France 2 take us behind the scenes to meet some of the people ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Madagascar for a regional summit has brought fresh attention to a long-running dispute over the Îles Éparses – a group of tiny islands in the Mozambique ...

Five German escapees - four paratroopers and a Kriegsmarine sailor - fled a POW camp in Granville, France, seeking a daring ...

France used to ship prisoners off to the penal colony of Cayenne, or “Devil’s Island”, in the overseas territory of French Guiana, but that ended in 1953. “The Cayenne jail is long gone ...

The mosquito-borne virus has infected more than 33,000 people on the island so far. The deaths, between 10 and 30 March, were of people aged over 70 with underlying health conditions, the latest ...

How exactly uninhabited islands and administrative regions of France ended up on the White House's tariff list isn't exactly clear. All do have their own two-letter country code on the United ...

Some, like the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Gaudeloupe are 'overseas départements', which are officially part of France and have the same status as mainland areas like Dordogne or Brittany.

who was arrested in Romania last month after nine months on the run as France's "public enemy number one." Correa was arrested on Wednesday in the southern island of Phuket, a hugely popular beach ...