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Lonely year for French president at time of crisis
The sounds of raucous protest echo in the Presidential Palace, unemployment is rising to levels not seen in over a decade, and his country's economy ...
Ex-French president top gift giver to Obama family
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife, Carla Bruni, were clearly taken with President Barack Obama and his family back in ...
French defense minister visits northern Mali
France's defense minister reaffirmed Friday that his country will keep 1,000 troops in Mali to fight radical Islamic militants even after the arrival ...
French government cuts EADS stake
The French state has cut its stake in Airbus parent company EADS to 12 percent following the latest sale of shares, the second this month.
UN approves peacekeeping force for Mali
The Security Council unanimously approved a new U.N. peacekeeping force for Mali on Thursday to help restore democracy and stabilize the northern half ...
China, France vow to promote 'multipolar' world
China's President Xi Jinping and France's President Francois Hollande pledged to push for a world free of domination by any superpower Thursday as the ...
French protest against gay marriage turns violent
France legalized gay marriage on Tuesday after a wrenching national debate that exposed deep conservatism in the nation's heartland and triggered huge ...
Car bomb at French Embassy in Libya wounds 3
A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside the French Embassy in Tripoli, wounding three people and partially setting the building on fire in the worst ...
A century after WWI, a dead soldier unites
When Didier Guerle fulfilled his grandfather's dying wish and had the fields of his farm searched, he set off a chain of events that brought people ...
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 ...
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 ...
Report: Ansar Dine spokesman seeks surrender
A spokesman for an al-Qaida-linked group in northern Mali wants to surrender and be extradited to face trial in his home country of Mauritania, ...
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 ...
EADS buys part of French government stake
The parent company of European aircraft maker Airbus has bought back almost half a billion euros worth of its own stock from the French government.
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 ...
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 ...
UN peacekeeping force proposed for Mali
France has circulated a draft U.N. resolution that would authorize a U.N. peacekeeping force to stabilize key towns in northern Mali and help promote ...