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Renault seeks 7,500 headcount reduction in France
Renault says it needs to cut its headcount by about 17 percent — or 7,500 jobs — in France over the next three years to stem losses amid a downturn ...
Report: Turkey strikes Kurd rebel targets in Iraq
Turkish jets have struck suspected Kurdish rebel targets in a cross-border raid in northern Iraq, Turkish and Kurdish media reported Tuesday, even as ...
France to send 2,500 troops to Mali, official says
An official at France's Defense Ministry says the country will "gradually deploy" a total of 2,500 troops to Mali, and the French president says the ...
Warplane sale on French agenda in UAE
France's president opened talks with top leaders in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday in hopes of pushing ahead efforts to sell up to 60 Rafale fighter jets to the ...
Mali rebels make gains, vow to avenge French bombs
Despite a punishing bombardment by French warplanes, al-Qaida-linked insurgents grabbed more territory in Mali on Monday, seizing a strategic military ...
French president bares tough side in Africa fights
Bombing militants in Mali may be the most popular thing Francois Hollande has done as France's president. The bespectacled and self-described "normal" ...
Panetta: US helping French forces with intel
The U.S. is already providing intelligence-gathering assistance to the French in their assault on Islamist extremists in Mali, Defense Secretary Leon ...
Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali
Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic extremist fighters have been burrowing into ...
A closer look at West African nation of Mali
Here's a close look at the West African nation of Mali, where French forces launched a military operation last week to oust al-Qaida-linked militants ...
French 'Switched' star living the American dream
Gilles Marini has made a name for himself in Hollywood, thanks to roles on ABC Family's "Switched at Birth" and "Brothers & Sisters," and competing ...
Somali militants post photo of dead French soldier
In a gruesome display that included a taunt of France's president, Somali militants on Monday posted photos of what appeared to be a dead French ...
No easy exit for French fighting terror in Mali
France, breaking its own rules with a surprise military intervention in Mali, raises the specter of an African quagmire in a new theater of the West's ...
Somali witnesses to failed rescue describe mayhem
The night of mayhem and death started with the sound of helicopters above pitch-black fields. When it was over, the French intelligence agent who had ...
French jets bomb major Malian city in north
French fighter jets bombed rebel targets in a major city in Mali's north Sunday, pounding the airport as well as training camps, warehouses and ...
Gay marriage protest converges on Eiffel Tower
Holding aloft ancient flags and young children, hundreds of thousands of people converged Sunday on the Eiffel Tower to protest the French president's ...
Beaches, bombs and gangsters _ Corsica's dilemma
The bombs exploded across hundreds of miles of Corsican coastline, gutting two dozen villas nearly simultaneously on some of Europe's most beautiful ...
Hundreds of French troops drive back Mali rebels
The battle to retake Mali's north from the al-Qaida-linked groups controlling it began in earnest Saturday, after hundreds of French forces deployed ...
More money, time needed to remove Concordia wreck
More time and money will be needed to remove the Costa Concordia cruise ship from the rocks off Tuscany where it capsized last year, in part to ensure ...
France chooses Africa intervention carefully
France has a history of intervention in Africa, where it was a colonial power for decades and still maintains several military sites and has hundreds ...
France ups terror threat level after Mali strike
The French president says the country will raise its domestic terror threat level after military action in Mali and Somalia, promising to increase ...
Kurd protest in Paris demands justice in killings
Thousands of Kurds from across Europe descended upon Paris on Saturday, demanding justice for three activists shot dead in the French capital.
AP Interview: UN chief says Mali getting more help
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that France, Senegal and Nigeria have responded to an appeal from Mali's president for help to counter an ...
Slaying puts spotlight on Kurdish female warriors
The photograph shows a young woman in guerrilla fatigues, long hair tied back, toting a machine gun. She stands next to Abdullah Ocalan, the feared ...