Jon Henley

France's domestic intelligence service is to ditch AI data tools from the US tech company Palantir in favour of a domestic provider in an effort to avoid “strategic dependency”, the prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has said.

YouGov survey of six countries shows respondents think crime is increasing – though most trust their national police

More than half of France’s population under severe weather warning with temperatures expected to exceed 40C

More than half of France's population is under a severe weather warning as large swathes of western Europe endure the second extreme heat event of the year with temperatures expected to exceed 40C (104F).

Even voters for far-right and Eurosceptic parties back closer relations, polling says

Sports and nationwide music festival affected, with temperatures for some expected to reach 42C from Monday

Rail services, schools and sports events hit, with deaths of three elderly people in France partly blamed on intense heat

It’s so hot that France is restricting alcohol.

Almost one in four voters in Europe now cast their ballot for far-right parties, research shows, a proportion that has grown nearly fivefold since the mid-1990s and climbed particularly steeply over the past three years.