France's National Film Board is doubling down on Asia as the region emerges as a vital creative force in a shifting global entertainment landscape.

France is the latest country to change its criminal code to a consent-based definition of rape, but other developed countries still haven’t.

LONDON (Reuters) -Chinese online fashion platform Shein is ramping up its fight in France, gambling that its first permanent shop, in a Paris department store, will help fend off fierce pushback from lawmakers against its low-cost model.

The good news for the French police is that three of the four people suspected of carrying off the ‘heist of the century’ at the Louvre last month are in custody. The bad news is that the crown jewels they stole, worth an estimated €88 million (£76 million), have yet to be recovered.

The French government will begin closed-door talks with lawmakers this week in a bid to salvage a budget from a bitter, slow-moving parliamentary debate that risks toppling Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu.

The robbers used explosives to gain entry to a precious-metal company in Lyon, French officials said. The police recovered the items.

The French National Assembly's Defense Commission has confirmed that the final two Defence and Intervention Frigates (FDI) will be equipped with significantly enhanced air defense capabilities, featuring 32 Aster missile cells—double the capacity of the first three vessels currently under construction.

Six suspects have been arrested near the French city of Lyon in connection with the country's latest brazen heist. Thieves used explosives to break into a precious metals refinery on Thursday before making off with the loot, which was mostly gold and worth €12m (£10.5m, $13.8m).