France's former President Francois Hollande during commemorations marking 10 years since an Islamist attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper and the Hypercacher jewish supermarket, outside the

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy went on trial on Monday charged with accepting illegal campaign financing in an alleged pact with late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

France on Tuesday commemorated the victims of the Islamist shooting attack on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo 10 years ago. A total of 17 people were killed in the shooting at the magazine on January 7,

PARIS (AP) — A decade after gunmen stormed the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in a deadly assault that shook France to its core and ignited a global outcry in defense of freedom of speech, the nation paused on Tuesday to honor the victims and renew its resolve to fight for liberty and democracy.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, convicted twice in separate cases since leaving office, goes on trial Monday charged with accepting illegal campaign financing in an alleged pact with the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

President Emmanuel Macron Tuesday faced accusations from France's remaining allies in West Africa of showing contempt towards Africans and from the left at home of neo-colonialism after lamenting that African countries "forgot to say thank you" for France's decade-long military deployment to fight an Islamist insurgency.

France is marking 10 years since a terror attack at a Paris kosher supermarket left four Jewish people and their Islamist assailant dead .

The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the party once known as the National Front, occurs at a time when the mainstreaming of far-right politics

PARIS — French Finance Minister Eric Lombard has taken a significant step toward reaching a budget deal that would secure the short-term survival of his government but partially roll back President Emmanuel Macron's hard-fought, legacy-defining pension reforms.

A woman was killed in a Russian attack on the village of Nezlamne in Kherson Oblast on the morning of 9 January. Source: Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of Kherson Oblast Military Administration Quote: "Nezlamne in Bilozerka hromada came under Russian attack at around 08:30.

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