More than two thirds of French people are in favour of shops opening on Sundays, as long as they don’t have to do the work themselves, according to a new opinion poll. Sixty eight per cent of respondents to the
People smugglers and left-wing activists are colluding in trying to smuggle migrants across the Channel from northern France to the UK, a French police union official has claimed. Gilles Debove said that violence at migrant camps around the French town
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said he no longer believes that Bashar al-Assad’s departure is necessary before any political transition in Syria, in an interview published Saturday. “The fight against Daesh is crucial, but it will only be totally effective
JERUSALEM – There’s an entire country that would probably differ with the White House’s off-key assertion that gun control will help deter terrorists.
TEL AVIV – Writing in the Jordanian daily Al-Rai, a regular columnist said that France and the West apply a double standard in their treatment of leaders in the Arab world, MEMRI reported. Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qadhafi and Yasser Arafat
A string of countries in Asia and north Africa have banned imports of French poultry following a bird flu outbreak, the agriculture ministry said Thursday in Paris. Algeria, China, Egypt, Japan, Morocco, South Korea, Thailand and Tunisia have stopped imports
As some parts of the world prepare to enjoy the festive season, terror-scarred Europe awaits the prospect of large numbers of people gathered for fireworks with grave concern about the possibility of mass-casualty terror atrocities. The Parisian new year’s eve
French human rights lawyers are champing at the bit after claims inhabitants of the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp are being prevented from entering the local municipal swimming pool. Although foreigners and migrants have not been formally banned from the pool, the Calais
France’s Socialists are to join forces with the main opposition conservatives to prevent an electoral breakthrough by Front National leader Marine Le Pen. Ms Le Pen, whose popularity is surging in the wake of the Paris attacks due to her
The top French weatherman who was sacked from his state broadcaster for speaking inconvenient truths about the non-existence of “man-made-global-warming” has taken exquisite revenge on the alarmist establishment: now he’s got a new job broadcasting from the Kremlin’s propaganda arm, pouring
PARIS – Police shut a mosque east of Paris and arrested the owner of a revolver found in related raids on Wednesday as part of a crackdown called after the Nov. 13 attacks on the capital, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve
Contents: Germany may deploy 1200 soldiers to Syria to fight ISIS; In major new escalation, US special forces will conduct combat in Iraq and Syria
Contents: France demands that Russia target only ISIS in Syria; Putin’s Syria intervention hobbled by weak Russian economy
France and Belgium want to improve intelligence sharing between the nine European nations most concerned with jihadist threats in the wake of the Paris attacks, a French government source said Monday evening. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls and his Belgian
On Monday, the White House announced some tightening of the visa waiver program, whose participants include countries such as France and Belgium. The Paris terror attacks were the obvious reason for the new measures.
President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin met privately in Paris where both are attending a climate change summit.
PARIS – Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve urged French Muslim leaders on Sunday to develop an “enlightened Islam” to confront what he called the obscurantist views of Islamic State that lead young Muslims into violence. At their first meeting since the
With sanctions about to be lifted, Iran unveiled a “new model” for a 25-year joint-venture oil and gas production contract on terms favorable to foreign companies in an effort to recruit $100 billion in foreign capital to break Russia’s natural gas monopoly in Europe.
PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande was meeting with environmental groups Saturday, pushing for an ambitious global deal to reduce man-made emissions blamed for global warming. The talks in the Elysee Palace come as President Barack Obama, the leaders
BELGRADE, Nov 28 (Reuters) – Some assault rifles used by the Islamic militants in the Nov 13 Paris attacks and later seized in police raids were produced in the former Yugoslavia’s state arsenal, the company’s director said on Saturday. Milojko
All the major powers are now agreed that crushing the Islamic State is the priority in Syria, and Russia will avoid air strikes against moderate Syrian rebel groups, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.
A Hungarian lorry driver has uploaded his expletive-laden rants as he drives through Calais, fending off migrants throwing bottles. The unidentified big-rig driver has uploaded a remarkable 15-minute dashboard cam video (full clip below) of his drive to the port of
France’s emergency services and military have seen a surge of interest from young people keen to join up after watching the Paris attacks unfold on television. “During the attacks I saw all these emergency workers helping people voluntarily. I just
(AFP) – France on Friday will mourn the 130 people killed in the November 13 Paris attacks, with President Francois Hollande leading a solemn ceremony in honour of the victims. Families of those killed in France’s worst-ever terror attack, claimed
MOSCOW (AP) — The presidents of France and Russia agreed Thursday to tighten cooperation in the fight against the Islamic State group, although they remained at odds over their approach toward Syrian President Bashar Assad. IS has claimed responsibility for
