Tag: France

KABUL- Afghanistan's cosmopolitan new first lady has backed France's controversial ban on the niqab, comparing the full veil to “blinders” as she prepares to...

BLOIS In a country whose national identity is so closely connected to its cuisine, France's hard right has seized on a growing appetite for...

PARIS - A wave of panic sparked by evil clowns stalking French towns has spread to the south of France where police on Saturday...

MOSCOW- The chief executive of French oil major Total, Christophe de Margerie, was killed when a business jet collided with a snow plough during...

PARIS- Money is now only a tweet away for French people, after a bank in the country on Tuesday launched a novel way to transfer...

PARIS— Three men suspected of joining Islamist militants in Syria gave themselves in to French authorities on Wednesday after a day of high confusion...

French planes have carried out air strikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Iraq. Less than 24 hours after President François Hollande announced he had...

Hollande’s office said in a statement a new government would be formed on Tuesday in line with the “direction he (the president) has defined for our country.”

PARIS France's transport chief says faulty maintenance on a signal and hot weather may have played a role in the collision of two trains in...

PARIS- It was one of the greatest love stories in history and now the marriage certificate that sealed the union of Napoleon and his first...

PARIS- Nicolas Sarkozy was on Tuesday detained for questioning in a widening corruption probe, a judicial source told a foreign news agency, in an unprecedented...

    COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER -   World leaders and veterans paid tribute on the 70th anniversary of the World War Two D-Day landings to soldiers who fell in the...

  BERLIN- Germany and France pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin to do more to calm the situation in Ukraine and make May 25 presidential elections there...

ISLAMABAD France has provided Rs 8.5 billion for two hydropower projects the Mohmand Hydropower Project (740 Mw) located and KP Harpo Hydropower Project (35 MW)...

PARIS- French President Francois Hollande approved a new Cabinet Wednesday that includes his ex-companion Segolene Royal as minister of environment and energy. The new government was...

PARIS- Reaction from around the world as Russia signs a treaty to make Crimea a part of its territory. - UNITED STATES "It's...

PARIS- Police have surrounded a nuclear plant in eastern France after more than 60 Greenpeace activists occupied it Tuesday to protest the nation's reliance on...