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Limping al-Qaida offshoot rearms with Twitter
Battered by a French-led military campaign in Mali, al-Qaida's North African arm is trying something new to stay relevant: Twitter. The PR campaign ...
Gay marriage opponents demonstrate in Paris
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to sunny Paris boulevards on Sunday to protest the expected passage this week of a bill legalizing gay ...
French family of 7 taken hostage in Cameroon freed
A French family with four young children kidnapped at gunpoint by Islamic extremists in northern Cameroon was freed after two months of captivity in ...
Probe opens of alleged Libyan funding for Sarkozy
Paris prosecutors on Friday began investigating whether the winning presidential campaign of former President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 may have ...
AQIM warns France, allies face threat after Mali
Al-Qaida's North Africa branch on Thursday threatened to seek revenge against all countries taking part in the French-led war in Mali, warning that ...
4 accused of anti-gay attack in France
Four people have been detained on suspicion of carrying out an attack at a Lille gay bar, the Interior Ministry said Thursday, amid nationwide ...
French president warns of security threats
French President Francois Hollande is warning of threats to France related to fighting in Mali and Syria, but says there is "no reason to raise the ...
France follows IMF in slashing growth forecasts
The French government has finally bowed to reality, lowering its official economic growth projections and acknowledging that its deficit won't fall ...
French ministers get low grades from money experts
France's government leaders have bared their financial assets and the ruling is in: they're not very good at money. After a scandal in which his ...
French farmers, anarchists unite in airport fight
They hurl sticks, stones and gasoline bombs. They have spent brutal winter months fortifying muddy encampments. And now they're ready to ramp up their ...
Chad's leader: Troops to leave Mali guerrilla war
The war against armed Islamic extremists in Mali will lose some 2,000 Chadian soldiers, the president of Chad said, leaving Malian cities more ...
France forces ministers to show financial records
Tax Day generally passes unnoticed in France but this year a major tax scandal involving a top member of government has made April 15 a day of ...
Scandal of disgraced French taxman widens
He feels hounded and, like a marked man, says he changes locations every few days. Less than a month ago, Jerome Cahuzac, France's disgraced former ...
French Senate passes gay marriage bill
The French Senate voted Friday to legalize same-sex marriage in France, putting a landmark bill on track to become law by summer. The vote in the ...
French tycoon decides against becoming Belgian
French luxury goods billionaire Bernard Arnault has decided not to become Belgian to avoid negative publicity back home. Arnault, one of the world's ...
Gay attack victim in France becomes cause celebre
The shocking photo of a homophobic attack victim in Paris that went viral on social media this week and caused the French interior minister to weigh ...
France names new spymaster
President Francois Hollande has appointed French ambassador to Afghanistan Bernard Bajolet as the new head of France's main spy agency.
Luxembourg agrees to help fight tax cheats
Luxembourg is to start exchanging information with the rest of Europe to help fight tax evasion, the government said Wednesday in a move it hopes will ...
Tax haven data leak names names, raises questions
It's a data leak involving tens of thousands of offshore bank accounts, naming dozens of prominent figures around the world. And new details are being ...
Putin urges peace talks to end Syria 'massacre'
President Vladimir Putin said the civil war in Syria has become "a massacre" that must be stopped through peace talks between the government and the ...