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France's Hollande meets steel firm chief amid spat
President Francois Hollande has met with the chief of ArcelorMittal after a minister in his government suggested that the steel giant should be ousted ...
Arafat grave dug up for probe of poison suspicion
Eight years after Yasser Arafat's mysterious death, his political heirs opened his grave Tuesday and let forensics experts take samples from his ...
OECD: Europe weighing on global economy
The global economy could easily slide back into recession if its major problems — like U.S. budget standoffs and Europe's lack of jobs — are left to ...
New chief of Sarkozy's dispute-racked party named
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative party, now the main opposition force to France's governing Socialists, moved deeper into disarray on ...
French minister wants steel firm ArcelorMittal out
Many European countries with lagging economies are trying to draw in foreign investors. But in France, a Socialist minister says he wants to kick the ...
Carla Bruni backs gay marriage, but not feminism
France's former first lady Carla Bruni says she disagrees with her conservative husband Nicolas Sarkozy and supports a plan to allow gay marriage and ...
France: Sarkozy's party battles to save itself
Parents struggle to explain it to their kids. Ambassadors struggle to explain it to their governments. The only thing that's clear is that French ...
Mauritanian president returns from France
Thousands of Mauritanians lined the road from the airport Saturday to welcome back President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who went to France for five ...
Treetop tents, tear gas: French protest turns ugly
Protesters squatting in treetop tents and makeshift shelters are battling French riot police trying to expel them from the site of a planned airport ...
French tennis coach convicted of raping players
A former tennis coach in France was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison Friday for raping young students at his academy, ending a ...
France's Sarkozy questioned over campaign funds
He faces the possibility of charges on allegations he took advantage of an aging heiress to get envelopes stuffed with illegal cash for his ...
Sarkozy joins ex-French leaders under legal fire
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy follows in a long line of French leaders in the legal crosshairs. Voted out office in May, the 57-year-old ...
Keselowski aside, NASCAR ready to move past 2012
The season hadn't even ended before NASCAR's top executives were previewing 2013, the new "Gen 6" cars and elements of a five-year industry "action ...
French citizen kidnapped in southwest Mali
A French citizen has been kidnapped in southwest Mali, far from the northern zone controlled by al-Qaida-linked militants that African countries are ...
Markets remain solid despite French downgrade
Hopes that Greece will get its next batch of bailout cash to avoid bankruptcy helped shore up markets Tuesday despite a downgrade of France's credit ...
Downgraded France says it needs more time
France's government has shrugged off the latest downgrade of its credit rating, saying Tuesday that it just needs time for reforms to the sluggish ...
IAEA: Iran nuclear program unaffected by sanctions
The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says he has no evidence that international sanctions against Iran have had any impact on its nuclear program.
'Good' and 'bad' Salvador Dali finally meet
Was Salvador Dali — who proclaimed himself a genius and "divine" — one of the world's greatest artists or one of the world's biggest showoffs? For ...
Faster than NATO, France ends Afghan combat role
France on Tuesday ended its combat operations in Afghanistan, pulling hundreds of troops from a base in a volatile region northeast of Kabul and ...
French retailer Carrefour sells Indonesia stake
French supermarket group Carrefour is selling off its business in Indonesia for €525 million ($670 million) as part of a broader effort at turning ...
US budget hopes boost Asia stocks
Asian stocks rose Tuesday as investors gained confidence that President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress will reach a budget deal to avert tax hikes ...
Moody's downgrades France 1 notch on weak growth
Moody's Investors Service on Monday downgraded France, stripping it of its prized AAA credit rating due to concerns over its prospects for economic ...
French conservatives pick leader with 98-vote edge
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives chose a right-leaning new leader on Monday in a razor-thin victory — 98 votes — and with so ...
Spotlight on researcher for McCullough, Ken Burns
The archivists at the Library of Congress know well the ruddy face and tenacious mind of researcher Michael Hill. He might arrive looking for the U.S.
Medics: Israel strike kills 11 civilians in Gaza
An Israeli missile flattened a two-story house in a residential neighborhood of Gaza City on Sunday, killing at least 11 civilians, mostly women and ...