France's labor minister said Monday that he would step down next week to become mayor of Dijon, forcing President Francois Hollande to find someone else to tackle stubbornly high unemployment.

Francois Rebsamen, 64, told Le Parisien daily that he would hand in his resignation on August 19, after the next cabinet meeting.

A French councilor on Monday slammed a decision to dedicate one day of the beach festivities in Paris to Tel Aviv, saying it sent "a very bad message" of support for Israel's policies.

Every summer, the French capital turns the banks of the Seine into a makeshift beach known as Paris Plages and has this year devoted each day to a famous beach around the world.

A family on their way to the French Riviera for their holidays left their three-year-old daughter in a motorway layby Sunday and drove more than 150 kilometers (90 miles) before realizing they had "forgotten" her, police said.

They only twigged she was missing when an alert was issued on French radio, officers said.

An alleged "anarchist cell" at the center of one of France's most politically-charged legal sagas is finally to be tried for sabotaging high-speed train lines.

But in a major blow to police, who conducted a seven-year investigation into the group, the four will not face terror charges, judicial sources told Agence France Presse on Saturday.

A court in Spain on Friday paroled a former political head of the armed Basque separatist group ETA who renounced violence and already served three-quarters of a 30-year jail sentence.

Jose Luis Alvarez Santacristina, alias "Txelis", was detained in 1992 along with two other ETA leaders in Bidart in southwestern France in what was the first major operation on French soil against the group.

Spain on Friday urged Paris to stop attacks by French farmers against Spanish trucks carrying produce as part of a protest against falling food prices, saying the assaults were growing and carried out with "impunity."

"The Spanish government expressed via diplomatic means this morning to French authorities its deep concern over the serious events that are taking place on French roads," the Spanish foreign ministry said in a statement.

France needs to draw up a "civil emergency" plan to give dignified accommodation to thousands of migrants who are camping out in the northern city of Calais in the hope of crossing the Channel to Britain, the U.N. said Friday.

The U.N. refugee agency said for the past year it had been calling for an "urgent, comprehensive and sustainable response" by Europe as a whole, but especially by French authorities to the worsening asylum crisis and reception conditions in Calais.

Frenchwoman Isabelle Prime, freed after nearly six months of captivity in Yemen, arrived in Oman on Friday before she returns to Paris to be welcomed by her "unbelievably happy" father.

The 30-year-old, who worked as a consultant on a World Bank-funded project in Yemen, was released late Thursday, according to a statement by the French presidency, and was poised to return to France on Friday evening.

French President Francois Hollande said Thursday there would be "no difficulty" in finding new buyers for two Mistral warships that had been sold to Russia before Paris scrapped the deal.

Paris refused to deliver the warships to Moscow in response to Russia's alleged aggression in Ukraine last year.

Malaysia said Thursday that debris found on a remote island was from flight MH370, the first proof that the plane met a tragic end in the Indian Ocean 17 months ago and offering hopes one of aviation's biggest mysteries could finally be solved.

Australian authorities, who have led a multinational search for the ill-fate plane, expressed renewed confidence that the frustrating search for MH370 was on the right track.