Tag: France

France is planning to deploy a total of 2,500 troops in Mali, more than three times the number sent so far to its former...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said that France’s military operation in Mali would not be a long one. “Stopping the terrorists - it’s...

A French hostage kidnapped in Somalia is believed to have been killed during a failed rescue operation, the French defence ministry says. A French...

About 500 jobs at the 161,000 barrels-a-day Petit-Couronne refinery are at risk, the latest industrial headache for the Socialist leader who has vowed to...

Falling short of an apology, President Francois Hollande on Wednesday acknowledged that France’s colonisation of Algeria was “brutal and unfair”. “For 132 years, Algeria was...

France and Germany, seemingly set on divergent political paths, pulled out all the stops Thursday to lay the symbolic foundation stone towards greater eurozone...

Bradley Wiggins wants to defend his Tour de France title despite Team Sky's initial plans to make Chris Froome their team leader in the...

France would extend its full help and cooperation to Pakistan to meet its energy requirements. Addressing a joint press conference French President Francois Hollande and...

Britain and France have both summoned Israeli ambassadors in protest at Israel’s decision to approve the construction of 3,000 new homes in the West...

Tens of thousands of people have protested in France against plans to legalise same-sex marriage and allow gay couples to adopt. Police said at least...

Bank of France governor Christian Noyer said Friday the euro is here to stay and warned that its disappearance would be an "absolute disaster". The...

France has offered aid to help the US East Coast recover from the ravages of superstorm Sandy, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Tuesday, expressing...

Two men and a woman appeared in a French court Monday in a case over a Cannes Film Festival high-end prostitution ring that had...

A man shot dead by French police Saturday in a nationwide crackdown on terror suspects that made 11 arrests was linked to an attack...

Afghanistan’s senate voted to cut the word “friendship” from a pact with France because Islamic texts say it cannot be used to describe relations...

A Sumatran orangutan believed to be the oldest reproductive specimen in captivity has died at a zoo in western France, a few weeks after...

The French Ambassador to Pakistan, Philippe Thiébaud, closed the Regional Health Programme Planning Workshop held in Islamabad funded by the French Ministry of Foreign...