Notre-Dame smolders as investigation begins

A Vietnamese woman arrested in France last year for drug trafficking has been declared innocent by a Belgium court.

French “yellow vest” demonstrators began their 19th consecutive weekend of protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s government Saturday as military units were deployed to help police clamp down on any trouble.

Rioters looted and torched shops and businesses on the famed Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris on Saturday, on the 18th weekend of French "yellow vest" protests.

A "yellow vest" demonstrator lost his hand during clashes with police outside the main parliament building in Paris.

A woman has been detained as part of a probe into a fire in an apartment building in Paris that killed at least eight people and injured about 30.

A Vietnamese woman arrested last month at a French airport for drug trafficking claims she’s a victim of identity theft.

A massive explosion probably caused by a gas leak gutted a the ground floor of a building in central Paris’s shopping district on Saturday, seriously injuring at least nine people, French police said.

French riot police fired tear gas and clashed with “yellow vest” protesters in central Paris on Saturday.

Burned hulks of cars, defaced Arc de Triomphe monument and shattered windows of luxury boutiques were left after Paris saw the worst riots in half a century.

Central Paris was filled with smoke and tear gas as protesters burned cars and clashed with riot police.

Three weeks of “yellow vest” protests have hit the French economy hard, with trade in shops, hotels and restaurants falling significantly, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday.

Workmen cleared away burned hulks of cars in Paris on Sunday after the worst riots in the capital in half a century.

Groups of young men with faces masked, some carrying metal bars and axes, rioted on the streets of central Paris on Saturday.