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France confirmed it will compete in the Fifa Under-20 Women's World Cup in Poland next month, even as Uefa maintains its boycott threat over Infantino's aborted plan to sell competition stakes to private investors.

France marked Bastille Day 2026 with a major Paris parade featuring 500 troops from the Coalition of the Willing, Ukrainian soldiers, and aircraft from 11 European nations, as nearly 30 world leaders gathered in Paris.

Jordan Bardella, 30, the deputy leader of Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National who had been groomed as France's next hard-right leader, has been forced back into the political shadows after failing to seize his moment.

Pakistani police rescued a 54-year-old French woman and her five children from a mud-brick home near the Afghan border, where she claims her husband had held them captive and cut off from the world since 2014.