News of the French trial (6)
I believe the answer is:
latest
'news' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'the french trial' is the wordplay.
'the french' becomes 'la'.
'trial' becomes 'test' ('test' can be a synonym of 'trial').
'la'+'test'='LATEST'
'of' is the link.
(Other definitions for latest that I've seen before include "coming after all the others" , "In vogue" , "style of today" , "Most recent or tardiest" , "Most recent report" .)