French President Emmanuel Macron was adamant in an interview with a French magazine about the defamation lawsuit he and his wife Brigitte Macron filed against far-right podcaster Candace Owens for her repeated claims that the First Lady of France was secretly born male,

The French leader said free speech isn’t a shield for “nonsense”—blasting Trump’s team for “banning journalists” from the White House.

In the first interview since filing the lawsuit, Macron told Paris Match that he feels the spread of false information across the U.S. is out of control. “This has become so widespread in the United States that we had to react,” he said in French. “It’s a question of having the truth respected.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday exchanged views on efforts for peaceful resolution of conflicts in Ukraine and in West Asia. In a post on X, PM Modi wrote, "Had a very good conversation with my friend President ...

During the talks, Macron shared his assessment of recent meetings held between the leaders of Europe, the US, and Ukraine in Washington. He later told the media that he and Modi had coordinated their positions on the war in Ukraine.

French President Emmanuel Macron has acknowledged the violence committed by his country's forces in Cameroon during and after the Central African nation's struggle for independence. It followed a joint report by Cameroonian and French historians examining France's suppression of independence movements from 1945 to 1971.

The conversation came days after US President Donald Trump met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington following his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

This has become so widespread in the United States that we had to react,’ the French president says in his first public remarks about the case