6 February 2012, 3:26 pm
Sarkozy and Merkel vow not to abandon the Syrian people... Read More »
6 February 2012, 4:37 am
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will seek to pull France back in line today and prevent the 50- nation NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan from fracturing by offering a plan to end the coalition’s primary combat role starting in mid-2013.... Read More »
6 February 2012, 4:02 am
Factbox on three-times Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, who was given a two-year ban on Monday over a failed dope test during the 2010 race:... Read More »
6 February 2012, 3:34 am
An appeals court ruled on Monday that Alberto Contador, a three-time winner of the Tour de France, used a performance-enhancing drug when he won the race in 2010.... Read More »
4 February 2012, 1:48 pm
PARIS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Saturday France was consulting with Arab and European countries to create a contact group on Syria to find a solution to its crisis after Russia and China vetoed a resolution at the U.N. Security Council. France and Britain had crafted the resoluti... Read More »
4 February 2012, 6:11 am
PARIS (Reuters) - France raised the pressure on Russia on Saturday by warning that countries that blocked a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria after activists said more than 200 people were killed in Homs would bear a "heavy responsibility in history." The comments came after Russian Foreign ... Read More »
3 February 2012, 2:35 am
Libya's ex-ambassador to France, Omar Brebesh, has died in the custody of a militia from possible torture, less than 24 hours after he was detained by the armed group, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.... Read More »
3 February 2012, 1:06 am
France chartered two planes on Thursday to send hundreds more Roma back to Romania in defiance of EU, Vatican and United Nations criticism of its controversial crackdown on traveling minorities.... Read More »
28 January 2012, 11:38 pm
France's call for a speedier NATO exit from Afghanistan reflects the depth of war fatigue in the West and raises fears that other countries in the U.S.-led coalition will succumb to rising political pressure and pull their troops home early.... Read More »
25 January 2012, 11:53 pm
PARIS - Police in southeast France on Thursday arrested the former head of a French company at the centre of a breast implant scandal affecting tens of thousands of women worldwide, a police official said.... Read More »
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