Rachida Dati's campaign to become mayor of Paris faces a new complication. Until now, the right-wing Les Républicains' candidate for the March 15 and 22 elections had mostly been stymied by ...

PARIS — If Rachida Dati realizes her long-held dream of becoming Paris mayor in the coming days, her victory will represent the culmination of a remarkable journey from her childhood in an ...

Update: 10.05 am PT… Catherine Pégard has been named as France‘s new minister of culture, replacing Rachida Dati who stepped down on Wednesday to focus on her campaign to become the mayor of Paris in ...

Dati said on Wednesday evening that she had submitted her resignation to President Emmanuel Macron, less than three weeks before the first round of voting in the mayoral race on 15 March. “Paris is ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rachida Dati has vowed to “smash the glass ceiling” by winning next month’s mayoral election in Paris — a ...

Paris mayoral hopeful Rachida Dati is running her campaign almost entirely on social media, posting videos with everyday Parisians to drive home her campaign promises. The strategy echoes that of ...

Seen by rivals as a dangerous rightwinger, others hope the controversial culture minister can snatch Paris from the left She was the first woman of north African and Muslim heritage to hold a major ...

PARIS - French police on Dec 18 searched the homes of Culture Minister Rachida Dati, as well as the ministry and the Paris town hall she presides over, as part of a corruption probe, a source close to ...

PARIS, Dec 18 (Reuters) - French authorities carried out searches at the Culture Ministry, private homes and the office of the mayor of the 7th district of Paris on Thursday as part of a corruption ...

French Culture Minister Rachida Dati in Bayonne, France, November 26, 2025. Police searched Dati's home and office as part of a graft probe on December 18, 2025. GAIZKA IROZ / AFP French police on ...

Dati, is accused of accepting €900,000 in lawyer's fees between 2010 and 2012 from a Netherlands-based subsidiary of Renault-Nissan, without actually working for them, while she was an MEP from 2009 ...

PARIS — Anti-corruption prosecutors have launched an investigation into allegations that French Culture Minister Rachida Dati failed to declare her expensive jewelry collection in a declaration of ...