A 24-year-old Chinese woman was indicted for allegedly stealing nearly $2 million worth of gold nuggets from Paris' National Museum of Natural History.

French police are desperate to retrieve priceless jewels stolen from the Louvre in a brazen daylight robbery, but experts have warned it may already be too late to save them.

France's ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy became the first former head of an EU state to be jailed Tuesday, proclaiming his innocence as he entered a Paris prison. Sarkozy's lawyer said a request had been immediately filed for parole but he will remain incarcerated for at least a month.

France has raised its bird flu alert level to 'high' from 'moderate', requiring poultry farms nationwide to keep birds indoors as Europe faces a seasonal resurgence of the disease.

France’s latest political crisis has eased, for now. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu narrowly survived a no-confidence vote on Thursday, averting another government collapse and giving President Emmanuel Macron a brief respite before an even tougher fight over the national budget.

The Environment Department has been approached by the BBC for a comment. The government's marine science team said the French Border Control Post had requested deliveries to not use ice in the packing and export of live scallops. The St Malo border control post said it had not asked for ice water analysis.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France from 2007 to 2012, reported to a prison in Paris weeks after his conviction in a corruption trial.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday a referendum to settle the pension reform debate remains a possibility.