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France's foreign minister on Tuesday urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas not to step down and vowed to press that point during a trip to Israel and the Palestinian Territories in the coming days.
The French president's special envoy on North Korea held talks Tuesday with the country's foreign minister during a visit to Pyongyang to explore the possibility of establishing diplomatic ties with the communist regime.
The city of romance got a lesson in love's hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital's first divorce fair.
During her years as a top model, French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave psychoanalysis nary a thought.
A French prosecutor says investigators have found euro9.5 million ($14.25 million) in cash believed stolen from a Lyon branch of France's central bank, a heist that prompted a nationwide search.
Disabled with severe cerebral palsy, 32-year-old Anne Lamic spends her days in southeastern France mostly in bed, surrounded by stuffed animals and dolls. She cannot speak or walk, and she sometimes has seizures.
Monaco's Prince Albert II is filing a lawsuit in the U.S. against an American who claims he once worked as the prince's personal spymaster and is owed back pay, the prince's French lawyer said Friday.
Forget the lions, tigers and bears. Paris' Pompidou Center plans to fill a colorful circus big top with Picassos, Matisses and Calders instead, creating a roving museum to take its masterpieces of modern art to France's culturally deprived rural regions and rough suburbs.
Families of victims of crashed Rio-Paris Flight 447 said Thursday a new search for wreckage has been delayed, and they accused French investigators of dragging their feet.
France's investigating judges are a powerful lot: They can order phone taps and home searches, interrogate terrorists and bring down politicians. Now, one has even ordered former French President Jacques Chirac to stand trial.
Total SA, Europe's third-largest oil company, reported Wednesday that profits were more than halved in the third quarter, due to a sharp fall in energy prices, but were still somewhat better than expected.
After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or tobacco. The sensory awakening was the start of a journey that turned a young Parisian scholar into a founder of modern anthropology.
Former French President Jacques Chirac released his memoir Tuesday, calling his successor Nicolas Sarkozy "nervous, in a hurry, ready for action" — comments notable for their restraint given the two men's tense relations.
Air New Zealand has ordered 14 Airbus single-aisle A320 aircraft worth $1.07 billion at catalog prices to replace Boeing jets, the European plane maker said Tuesday.
Nicolas Sarkozy is once again wading into international diplomacy. After trying a hand at Mideast peace, raising France's profile on Iran and reaching out to Cuba, he's homing in on another problem long seen as Washington's to solve: North Korea.
French-born writer Marie NDiaye won France's top literary prize Monday for "Three Strong Women," her moving tale of the struggles of women in Europe and Africa.
A French lawyer for director Roman Polanski, imprisoned in Switzerland, says a new bail offer will be filed Monday and it will be a "very, very significant" cash amount.
Moscow plans to buy a French amphibious assault ship, the first such purchase from a NATO country, as the Kremlin seeks to reaffirm Russia's global reach, a Russian news agency reported Saturday.
Telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA saw its net loss widen in the third quarter as European phone companies, its key customers, cut back on spending.
Trans-Atlantic stock market operator NYSE Euronext said Friday its net income plunged 28 percent in the third quarter as it cut prices in a bid to counter falling trading volume.
Paris prosecutors said Wednesday they will not appeal a judge's decision to order former French President Jacques Chirac to stand trial in an alleged corruption case that predated his presidency.
A new Web site launched Thursday gives China's 1.3 billion people a chance to ogle French luxury, from designer clothing to diamond-dripping watches and glittering gold jewelry, as part of a bid by French houses to tap into the Asian giant's growing hunger for high-end goods.
Paris police are urging witnesses to come forward following the unsolved killing of a 21-year-old Oregon man killed this month while vacationing in France.
A French court has decided not to pursue an investigation into three African heads of state for money laundering linked to their assets in France.
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announced today that it has further strengthened its working relationship with LPTIC (Libyan Post Telecommunications & Information Technology Company) by signing a multi million Euro contract to deploy the second phase of Eastern Liby …
Dutch 'among lowest cannabis users'THE Dutch are among the lowest users of marijuana or cannabis in Europe despite the Netherlands' well-known tolerance of the drug, according to a regional study.
Anthropologist Levi-Strauss diesRenowned French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died, aged 100. One of the most influential French intellectuals of the 20th Century, he founded the structuralist school of anthropology in the 1950s.
Pajamas Media » Europeans' Obama Thrill Turns to DisappointmentCharm, it seems, can only get you so far. Despite Europe's initial wild reception of Barack Obama, the anti-Bush, and the bestowing upon him of the most prestigious of Euro-lib awards, the Europeans still seem to expect action from a sitting U.S. president.
Brussels: One of Europe's great secrets(Tribune Media Services) -- Six hundred years ago, Brussels was just a nice place to stop and buy a waffle on the way to France.
Sarkozy Fights the Islamisation of FranceAmerica should look to Europe -- if, for nothing else, a grim glimpse of where the dark road of islamisation will take us. It appears Sarkozy is taking a page from Wilders' playbook. France Takes in Islam, The Deportations Have Started Islam in action
Is Obama More Truman or Carter? by Victor Davis HansonTruman and the Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy : Jimmy Carter rejected the postwar consensus. President Obama appears to be following a similar path.
French military effort in Afghanistan earning respect of U.S. troops Over the years, French forces have participated in several counterinsurgency and peacekeeping missions, particularly in Africa, said Etienne de Durand, director of the Security Studies Center at the French Institute of International Relations in Paris.
Britain out in the cold as US exits recession - America joins Japan, China, Germany and France in return to growthGordon Brown is facing growing embarrassment over Britain's recovery after it became the world's only major economy still in recession as America returned to growth in the third quarter.
Napoleon's Dynamite - Or Why The President should 'dither'PARIS — He's in there somewhere, under the gilded dome of Les Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte, is entombed by six coffins in what has to be the most spectacular sarcophagus in all the City of Light.
Burka is not welcome in France, says president"PRESIDENT NICOLAS Sarkozy's recent declaration to French parliamentarians was greeted with loud applause: "I say it solemnly," he said, "the burka is not welcome in France."
Church of Scientology Guilty of Defrauding FollowersA court in Paris today convicted the Church of Scientology in France of defrauding its followers, handing down fines to the organization and its leaders, with one of those leaders also receiving a suspended prison sentence.
Resistance hero 'told to leave'A British officer who trained French Resistance fighters during World War II was told to "go home" by Charles de Gaulle, newly released files show.
Scientologists convicted of fraudA French court has convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud, but stopped short of banning the group from operating in France.
Angola arms traffickers convictedThe son of ex-French President Francois Mitterrand and an ex-government minister have been convicted for their roles in illegal arms sales to Angola.
Church of Scientology guilty of fraud in FranceA Paris court on Tuesday convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud and fined it more than half a million euros - but stopped short of banning the group as requested by prosecutors.
Father accused of abducting man he believes killed his daughterA retired accountant whose daughter was killed 27 years ago was facing charges last night over the alleged abduction of the man he always blamed for her death. The man was left bound, gagged and injured outside a French courtroom.
U.S. helps spread nuclear power throughout the WorldThe United States has quitely signed a massive nuclear deal with Iran's neighbor, the United Arab Emirates. Not only is estimated that Westinghouse and General Electric will receive the contracts, thousands of American jobs will be created.
3-Strikes For Pirates Makes European Comeback TourIn a great blow for consumers everywhere, the prospect of 3-strikes for copyright infringers has returned with a vengeance, as both the EU Council and French Constitutional court pushed forward with their respective legislation.
U.S. college student murdered in ParisDays after heading to France for a sightseeing trip that was a lifelong dream, Justin Little, 21, was found bludgeoned to death with a cinder block in a park in a gritty Paris suburb.
NATO cool to adding troops in AfghanistanItalian Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa told the newspaper Corriere della Sera he agreed with the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who requested tens of thousands more troops and beefed-up training of Afghan forces.
Man creates GPS box triggered to open in only one locationDesigned for newly-married friends in France, the puzzle box is programmed to only open upon delivery to one precise location.
Hosepipe murder trial to open in France A 40-year-old French villager goes on trial on Monday accused of murdering a student in a frenzied fit of anger after she sprayed him with a garden hose.
23-year-old son of the French president has meteoric rise as critics denounce nepotism worse than the Roman empire, the return of the French monarchy and aristocracy gone mad.
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