Paris (dpa) – The Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF) on Monday expressed surprise at President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to ban an influential Egyptian preacher from visiting France next month.
Sarkozy said earlier that Sheikh Yusuf (...)
Paris (dpa) – The mother of Mohamed Merah, the Islamist gunman who claimed responsibility for killing seven people in the Toulouse area before being shot dead by police in a raid, has been released from police custody, French media reported (...)
MARSEILLE (dpa) – France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Sunday she would crack down on crime in high-rise suburbs and make it far harder for immigrants to obtain French citizenship if she were elected president.
Addressing a rally of over (...)
Paris (dpa) – Edith Bouvier, the injured French journalist who was trapped in Syria for nine days, related her dramatic escape from the besieged city of Homs in an interview with Le Figaro newspaper Saturday.
The 31-year-old paid tribute to the (...)
ALGIERS (dpa): A suicide bomber attacked a paramilitary police building in Algeria's Tamanrasset region, and left more than 20 people injured, local media reported Saturday.
El Watan newspaper reported that 23 people, mostly from the gendarmes, (...)
PARIS (dpa): French opposition parties on Saturday slammed a claim by Interior Minister Claude Gueant that allowing foreigners to vote in local elections would lead to school canteens being forced to serve halal food.
Restating President Nicolas (...)
Paris (dpa) – An armed robber hijacked a truck carrying around one ton of explosives as it left a depot in south-eastern France Thursday but police caught up with him after 200 meters, media reported.
The truck was transporting industrial (...)
PARIS (dpa): French President Nicolas Sarkozy condemned Thursday the “thuggish behavior” of hundreds of protesters who booed him during a campaign visit to the city of Bayonne Thursday and barred his path, forcing him to take refuge in a (...)
CAIRO (dpa) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday ordered his government to return to the drawing board after the country's top constitutional authority struck down a controversial bill banning the denial of the Armenian genocide, in a (...)
CAIRO (dpa) – The French government on Tuesday slammed a proposal by Socialist presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande to slap a 75 % tax on millionaires, saying such a punitive tax could drive away top talent.
Hollande, who is leading (...)
Tunis/Beirut (dpa) – Western and Arab countries were expected to demand an immediate ceasefire in Syria and humanitarian access to areas ravaged by weeks of regime bombardments at a Friends of Syria conference in Tunisia later Friday.
Ministers (...)
Paris/Beirut (dpa) – As the Syrian city of Homs reeled from a 20th consecutive day of bombardments by government forces Thursday, the opposition was looking to a conference in Tunisia to try to turn the tide in the bloody 11-month (...)
Paris (dpa) – French journalist Edith Bouvier, who was badly wounded in an attack in the besieged Syrian city of Homs that killed two foreign journalists, issued a video plea Thursday to be evacuated to Lebanon for urgent treatment.
In the video (...)
Tunis (dpa) – Three Tunisian journalists appeared before a judge Thursday after being arrested for publishing a racy photograph of German footballer Sami Khedira and his girlfriend on the front page of their newspaper.
The publisher, editor and a (...)
Algiers (dpa)- A cold snap sweeping large parts of Europe has also exacted a heavy toll in Algeria, where 25 people have died in accidents linked to heavy snowstorms, the fire and rescue services announced Tuesday.
Twenty-eight of Algeria's 48 (...)
Paris (dpa) – Tunisian authorities have seized 48 yachts or fishing vessels, 34 cars and 233 properties belonging to ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his clan, the country's TAP news agency quoted a government official as saying Thursday (...)
Paris (dpa) – The French manufacturer of the suspect breast implants that have been recalled in several countries was released on bail of 100,000 euros (130,000 dollars) late Thursday, France Info radio reported.
Jean-Claude Mas, the 72-year-old (...)
Paris (dpa) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned against any military intervention against Iran over its nuclear program, saying a strike on Iran would “trigger war and chaos in the Middle East.”
At his annual New Year's address to diplomats (...)
Paris (dpa) – European aircraft manufacturer Airbus was tightlipped Saturday about reports that it has clinched a deal with Hong Kong Airlines for 10 Airbus A380 super jumbos, worth up to 3.8 billion dollars.
Britain's Financial Times reported (...)
Algiers (dpa) – German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Sunday pledged support for Libya's reconstruction after the civil war of the past year.
“Germany stands by the new Libya as a friend and partner,” said Westerwelle, before flying to (...)
Paris (dpa) – French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has denied allegations published by a French magazine on Saturday that her foundation received millions of dollars from The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Marianne news (...)
Paris (dpa) – French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Tuesday he was “skeptical” about the chances of success for the Arab observer mission currently in Syria.
“The conditions in which this observer mission is taking place warrant being (...)
Tunis (dpa) – Tunisia's Islamist new Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali on Thursday unveiled a proposed power-sharing government, in which his Ennahda party, winner of the country's first free elections, would control the interior, justice and foreign (...)