The republic established by Charles de Gaulle in 1958 erupted a decade later in the student protests of May ‘68; the following year the general resigned. Emmanuel Macron faced months of widespread and violent demonstrations by gilets jaunes (yellow jackets) in 2018-19;

France was reeling on Sunday from widespread damage caused in violent protests the day before that saw 1,800 people arrested, a historic

Sky's Alistair Bunkall reports from Paris and Limoges, after one of the worst riots in France's history. He describes the streets as "a total mess, with debris everywhere".

France was reeling on Sunday from widespread damage caused by violent protests the day before that saw 1,800 people arrested, a historic

Ukraine hit Saint Petersburg with a large-scale drone attack, causing fires at an oil refinery and depot, Moscow said Sunday, as Kyiv accused Russia of violating Donald Trump's "energy ceasefire" dozens of times and leaving tens of thousands without power.

Smoke billowed on Sunday at an oil export terminal and depot in St. Petersburg, which was set ablaze after Ukraine launched more than 1,000 drones at Russia. It was one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war.

Ukraine launched one of its largest drone attacks of the war overnight, with Russia saying it downed more than a thousand drones as fires broke out at oil sites in St. Petersburg. The strikes come despite President Trump’s push for both sides to spare refineries, and the Kremlin says Moscow remains undeterred.

Ukrainian strikes have set an oil export terminal and a depot ablaze in St Petersburg after Ukraine launched more than 1000 drones at Russia in one of its largest aerial attacks of the war. One person was killed and five others were wounded in the St Petersburg attack,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with top US envoys Sunday to try to ease tensions, as Donald Trump accused his counterpart of not wanting to end the war with Russia.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that he feared the United States would lift more sanctions on Russia and that President Donald Trump's action

Russia on Saturday hailed US President Donald Trump's move to waive new sanctions on it as "historic", as Ukraine worries he is taking Moscow's side in Europe's worst conflict since World War II.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that waived sweeping US sanctions and tariffs targeting Russia's energy revenues, marking a new low