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France and Germany must rebuild their intimate partnership in order to pull Europe out of its financial crisis, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the former French president who devoted his life to forging a unified Europe, said in an interview with The Associated Press.
The woman now leading the interim government in Kyrgyzstan after bloody unrest has a reputation as a pragmatic, skilled diplomat. The question is whether opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva can hold onto power and put her volatile country, once considered the most progressive in Central Asia, on a path to stability and prosperity.
Nearly a year after President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered negotiators to work on a new treaty to reduce their nuclear arsenals, the two countries say they are finally close to completing a deal.
Fresh with a first-place showing in round one of regional elections over President Nicolas Sarkozy's governing UMP party, France's Socialists now have a week of deal-making with rival leftist parties to try to secure dominance in the upcoming runoff — and 2 1/2 years to transform its regional success into victory in the 2012 presidential vote.
The Russian government deliberately sought to "destroy" the now-defunct oil giant Yukos for political reasons, a lawyer for the company argued Thursday before the European Court of Human Rights.
A strike by French air traffic controllers disrupted flights for a second day Wednesday, and airlines geared up for another day of delays.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel brushed off President Barack Obama's decision not to attend an annual summit with European leaders while stressing Thursday the importance of Russia as a European partner.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday praised the "essential role" the U.S. is playing in helping Haiti recover — scrambling to overcome comments by one of his ministers who compared Washington's aid efforts to a new occupation of the impoverished nation.
Europeans might have reason to feel disappointed with Barack Obama.
European leaders and top diplomats hailed President Barack Obama's speech defining the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, but few countries were forthcoming Wednesday with pledges of fresh troops.
Georgia is very worried about the possible sale of French warships to Russia and intends to press the issue of security guarantees in France, the country's foreign minister said Thursday.
Throughout the Cold War, Germany was the steadfast trans-Atlantic ally — and France the perpetual skeptic. Paris snubbed NATO, booted allied soldiers off its soil and sought a privileged relationship with Moscow.
The glories of Istanbul have arrived in Paris.
A French investigating judge has filed preliminary charges against a physicist at the world's largest atom smasher who is suspected of al-Qaida links, a judicial official said.
A French oceanographic survey ship has begun scanning the Atlantic Ocean floor, a new phase in the hunt for Air France Flight 447's black boxes now that they are no longer emitting signals, investigators said Thursday.
Drivers beware! As millions of French people get ready to hit the roads on the busiest weekend for summer vacation departures, police are warning them to go easy on the gas after a very deadly month of June.
President Nicolas Sarkozy opened the traditional Bastille Day military parade to Indian and German troops Tuesday, as France looks to expand its global military influence and strengthen strategic partnerships.
Iranians demonstrated in capitals around Europe on Thursday to protest the disputed Iranian presidential election and the regime's treatment of its critics.
A thousand French Internet users a day could be taken off-line following approval of President Nicolas Sarkozy's pet project — an unprecedented law to cut the Internet connections of people who repeatedly pirate music and movies.
A field of white stone crosses marks the graves of French soldiers alongside gray granite crosses bearing German names in this World War II cemetery — testament to a history of tragedy and reconciliation.
French workers facing steep layoffs at a Caterpillar factory freed four bosses they had been holding at the U.S. manufacturer's plant in the Alps to protest the job cuts.
France has a favorable first impression of the Obama administration's approach to thorny problems like Afghanistan based on an array of initial contacts, a Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday.
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