Tag: France

PARIS- A French comedian was detained for questioning on Wednesday for writing on his Facebook account he felt "Charlie Coulibaly," a word play combining...

Al-Qaeda in Yemen has claimed responsibility for the attack on Charlie Hebdo in a video posted online, saying it was "vengeance" for the French...

TEHRAN- Iran condemned Wednesday the publication of a new cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, saying it was...

PARIS- Charlie Hebdo will publish a front page showing a blasphemous caricature in its first edition since Islamist gunmen attacked the satirical newspaper. With demand...

PARIS- France will have more than 10,000 soldiers mobilised on home soil by Tuesday after 17 were killed in attacks carried out by Islamist...

LAGOS- A Nigerian archbishop called Monday for the same international support to tackle Boko Haram as France has received since it was hit by extremist...

LONDON — Kalashnikov assault rifles. Plenty of ammunition. Molotov cocktails, a grenade, a death-dealing Skorpion machine pistol and a few handguns. Plus a revolving...

PARIS— France vowed to combat terrorism with "a cry for freedom" in a giant rally for unity Sunday after three days of bloodshed that...

DAMMARTIN-EN-GOELE- French anti-terrorist police sealed off a small northern town and helicopters hovered overhead after a police source said two men believed to have carried...

PARIS— A French police official says a pair of brothers suspected in the storming of a satirical newspaper appear to have taken a hostage. Xavier...

  Leading U.S. news outlets mostly declined to show controversial cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) on Wednesday after suspected Islamist gunmen in Paris...

PARIS- French security forces on Thursday launched a massive manhunt for two brothers suspected of killing 12 people in an extremist attack on a satirical...

The French and Indian defence ministers agreed to press ahead with negotiations on the sale of 126 Rafale fighter jets to India, both sides...

France warned on Friday it would recognise a Palestinian state if a final international effort to overcome the impasse between Israelis and Palestinians failed,...

A man with Down's syndrome in France got truckloads of cards -- some 30,000 from around the world -- for his 30th birthday, after...

PARIS- One of Napoleon's famous two-pointed hats was sold on Sunday to a South Korean collector for nearly 1.9 million euros ($2.2 million) at...

The politicians do not play themselves, but instead disguise themselves for one day as people from different walks of life.