France has summoned US ambassador Charles Kushner after he accused President Emmanuel Macron’s government of failing to act against rising antisemitic violence, a charge Paris firmly rejected.

France summoned the Italian ambassador after Italy's deputy prime minister challenged the French president for suggesting that European soldiers be deployed in Ukraine in a post-war settlement, a French diplomatic source said on Saturday.

France has summoned the American ambassador to Paris after the diplomat, Charles Kushner, wrote a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron alleging the country did not do enough to combat antisemiti