The blockade of a fuel depot continues in Brest, western France, as public works craftsmen, disappointed with the aid announced by the government in the face of soaring fuel prices, show their resolve (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Images of the building from which a French family plunged to their deaths from a seventh floor balcony in the western Swiss town of Montreux after officers knocked at their door (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Rwandan's deputy government spokesman Alain Mukuralinda denies accusations by the military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo of Kigali's support for the revived M23 rebel movement in the east (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

With ten weeks to go before the first round of the French presidential election, Paris mayor and Socialist Party candidate Anne Hidalgo defends her social-democratic path, saying it is "the only possible option for a left-wing government...

Where are your limits? How much remorse and resilience do you have?" says Laurent Boguet, the lawyer for the father of a girl who was kidnapped and killed, about the accused Nordahl Lelandais (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

"With Macron, for five years, we have been more than forgotten": Students at Sorbonne univeristy in Paris debate with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the far-left France Unbowed's presidential candidate (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

French Socialist presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo, in great difficulty in the polls, called on the Socialists "not to close their eyes" and "to be proud" of the great social achievements of their party, during a visit to Liévin, in...

Has a Diego Velázquez been uncovered? A painting, previously thought to be Dutch, has been included in an exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Orleans on the master of Spanish Baroque painting, raising the question of its...

In just a few weeks, Parisian environmentalist and lesbian activist Alice Coffin has become one of France's new faces of feminism (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Football fans in Marseille and Paris react after a decision to scrap fan zones in French cities for the Qatar World Cup, on the basis of humanitarian and environmental reasons (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

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What we are asking for is that the active category which guaranteed us the Staff Regulations and enabled us to retire earlier be brought back into service : several dozen sewer workers (whose life expectancy is 17 years shorter than the...

The "Tablée des chefs", under the patronage of the Michelin-starred chef Julia Sedefdjian, raises awareness among future chefs about solidarity and food waste (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Sport and fitness aficionados remain frustrated and angry at the "injustice" of the French government's decision to keep gyms and sports centres closed until at least January 20 (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Mr. Le Pen, I have never met him," admits Edwige Diaz, a fervent supporter of Marine Le Pen and MP for the far-right Rassemblement National party (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

A maximum sentence of life imprisonment with a minimum term served of 22 years has been requested against convicted French killer Nordahl Lelandais for the murder of schoolgirl Maëlys De Araujo (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

One week before the first round, hard-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, is holding a big campaign meeting in Toulouse during which he promises, if he is elected, "to ban for-profit nursing homes, which will be all confiscated" (Footage...

French voters begin casting their ballots in New York for the first round of the presidential election, a day before polls open on the mainland (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

"The political representation of the people needs a renewal," says hard-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, as he joins Green party representatives for a press conference by the left-wing coalition Nupes in Strasbourg, ahead of france's...