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Airbus gets biggest order ever from Indonesia
Airbus signed its biggest deal ever on Monday, an order from Indonesian's Lion Air worth €18.4 billion ($24 billion) that President Francois Hollande ...
France considers amnesty for ransacking strikers
With its long vacations, short hours and myriad workers' rights, France has a reputation for being a hard place to do business. Now add this to the ...
EU leaders fail to agree on arming Syrian rebels
On the second anniversary of the uprising that evolved into Syria's brutal civil war, leaders at a European Union summit Friday found themselves ...
France ready to arm Syrian rebels
France and Britain are pushing the European Union to lift its arms embargo on Syria as soon as possible so that they can send weapons to rebel ...
Syrian opposition pushes for interim government
The main Syrian opposition group is pushing to form a breakaway interim government to rein in chaotic rebel-held areas in the north. But it faces ...
UN: Syria refugee numbers jump 10 percent in week
The U.N. said Thursday that the number of registered Syrian refugees jumped 10 percent in the past week alone, part of what the U.N. commissioner for ...
French official: Syrian rebels need arms
The European Union will soon have to consider allowing munitions to be funneled to the outgunned Syrian rebels fighting to overthrow the regime of ...
French tally toll as defense minister visits Mali
France's defense minister made a surprise visit to Mali on Thursday to see French troops fighting extremists there, as military officials said at ...
France calls on Europe to ease off austerity
France has called on fellow European nations to ease off on painful austerity policies to give the economy some breathing space and avoid social ...
French jobless rate up again in Q4, hits 10.6 pct
France has yet to hit bottom. The unemployment rate in Europe's second-largest economy rose again in the last quarter of last year to 10.6 percent, ...
French unions protest loosening of labor rules
France's toughest unions are protesting a potentially landmark plan to loosen the country's famously rigid labor rules, calling it a betrayal by ...
France: Key al-Qaida chief in Mali likely killed
France said Monday for the first time that a key al-Qaida leader in Mali is probably dead. An activist close to the terror network's north Africa ...
3rd French soldier killed in Mali combat
A French soldier has died in some of the most intense fighting thus far in the seven-week-old military campaign to push back a jihadist advance in ...
Head of Chadian army claims troops kill Belmoktar
Chad's military chief announced late Saturday that his troops deployed in northern Mali had killed Moktar Belmoktar, the terrorist who orchestrated ...
Chad's president: Al-Qaida chief killed in Mali
Chadian President Idriss Deby announced Friday that Chadian troops fighting to dislodge an al-Qaida affiliate in northern Mali killed one of the ...
Officials: France in Mali until July or later
French troops will stay in the West African country of Mali at least until July, amid tougher-than-expected resistance from Islamic fighters, ...
Azerbaijanis injured in fight at French parliament
French officials on Thursday condemned Armenian and Azerbaijani activists for clashing with one another in France's parliament. Azerbaijan and Armenia ...
Putin signals Russia can be more flexible on Syria
President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia should listen to some of the French arguments about Syria — over a bottle of vodka, not merely wine
US, Europe move to expand role in Syrian conflict
The United States and some European allies are edging closer to direct involvement in Syria's civil war with plans to deliver meals, medical kits and ...
Mali: 6 killed in bomb as fighting rages in north
A suicide car bombing killed six government allies in the northern city of Kidal, as French confirm that they are engaged in heavy fighting in ...
French in tough fight in northern Mali
France's defense minister said Tuesday that French troops are involved in "very violent fighting" in the mountains of northern Mali and that it's too ...
In grim French north, worker protests seem doomed
Workers at a dying French tire factory who have become the butt of American jokes staged a last-ditch protest on Tuesday to defy anyone — plant owner ...
Mali radicals recruited child soldiers at schools
The radical Islamic fighters showed up at Mohamed Salia's Quranic school, armed with weapons and demanding to address his students. The leader, named ...
After bad month for French cuisine, farms in focus
Stung by Europe's growing horse meat scandal, French farmers and food industry officials on Saturday were flocking to Paris to show off their wares ...