India signed a formal agreement Friday to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets from France's Dassault for 7.9 billion euros ($8.8 billion), one of its biggest defence deals in decades.

French police on Tuesday arrested eight associates of the jihadist who killed 86 people when he plowed his truck into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice, an investigation source said.

French President Francois Hollande would be crushed if he stood for re-election next year, according to a new opinion poll published on Tuesday.

Paris will open its first refugee camp in mid-October, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said Tuesday, announcing a center solely for men with an initial capacity of 400.

Seven people with links to terrorist networks, at least three of whom were planning attacks, have been arrested in France this month, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Tuesday.

A noise that sounded like gunfire sparked panic at a French Riviera resort as people rushed to flee what they believed was a terror attack, causing a number injuries, the fire service said.

France on Tuesday reaffirmed its "full support" for Libya's unity government, seeking to mend fences after the interim leader demanded an explanation for the presence of French troops in the east of the conflict-ridden country.

A senior policewoman claimed Sunday that France's interior minister pressured her to alter a report into security at the Nice fireworks display where 84 were killed when a man rammed a lorry into the crowd.

Five suspects have been formally charged over the truck attack in the French Riveria city of Nice that killed 84 people, the Paris prosecutor said Thursday,

French lawmakers voted massively Wednesday to extend the state of emergency introduced late last year for a fourth time following the July 14 massacre in Nice.

After seven hours of fraught debate into the night, during which the opposition accused the government of being lax on security, the lower house of parliament voted by 489 to 26 to prolong the measures for a further six months.