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 ...
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 ...

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 ...
EADS in talks to buy part of French gvt stake
The parent company of European jet maker Airbus says it is in talks to buy back almost half a billion euros worth of its own stock from the French ...
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 ...

EU mission trains troops in Mali
In preparation for a drawdown of French troops from Mali, a European Union team started training Malian soldiers for battle against jihadists who ...

US, German finance chiefs downplay differences
Germany's finance minister insisted Tuesday that reducing deficits should not hurt economic growth, sticking by his strategy to tackle Europe's crisis ...
France will barely grow in 2013, minister warns
France's finance minister is warning that the country will barely grow this year. Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici told an economic conference on ...

Hollande pledges clean sweep amid corruption probe
For a French president who came to power on a promise of "irreproachability," naming a lying tax-dodger to be his chief tax collector was probably not ...

French ex-minister admits lying about bank account
French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday decried an "unforgiveable moral error" by his former budget minister, who has jolted France's body ...

Muslims worry about broader France headscarf ban
Because of her choice to wear a headscarf, Samia Kaddour, a Muslim, has all but abandoned trying to land a government job in France. Soon, some ...

Al-Qaida takes responsibility for Timbuktu attack
Al-Qaida's local chapter took responsibility for an attack on Timbuktu this weekend, as French and Malian forces Monday continued to hunt down the ...

Islamic extremists attack Timbuktu in north Mali
Timbuktu has been hit by a prolonged battle between Islamic extremists and the Malian and French armies, residents and a Malian military spokesman ...

France to tax companies 75 pct on $1.3M salaries
French President Francois Hollande may have finally found a way to tax the really rich: by making their companies pay. In a televised interview ...

C. African Republic president overthrown by rebels
Rebels overthrew Central African Republic's president of a decade on Sunday, seizing the presidential palace and declaring that the desperately poor ...

Clashes at French anti-gay marriage protest
Paris police used tear gas and batons to fight crowds who pushed their way onto the landmark Champs-Elysees avenue and toward the presidential palace ...
Radical Islamists attack Malian city of Gao
Islamic extremists infiltrated and attacked the northern Malian city of Gao, the mayor and residents said late Saturday. It was the third major attack ...

France confirms death of Al-Qaida chief Abou Zeid
The death of a top al-Qaida-linked warlord in combat with French-led troops represents a victory in the battle against jihadists who had a ...

UK, France press EU on giving arms to Syria rebels
European Union foreign ministers displayed their divisions Friday over whether to start shipping weapons to rebels in Syria, with Britain and France ...
Sarkozy lawyer calls charges 'scandalous'
A lawyer for Nicolas Sarkozy slammed an investigation into the campaign finances of former French president, saying he is being treated "scandalously.
France's Sarkozy officially being investigated
A judge on Thursday filed preliminary charges against former President Nicolas Sarkozy in a campaign finance case, formally placing him under ...
Mexico demands Sotheby's halt auction of artifacts
The Mexican government is demanding that Sotheby's auction house halt the planned sale of 51 pre-Columbian Mexican artifacts, arguing they are ...