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's former President Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial over allegations he received millions from Libya for his 2007 successful presidential campaign, in the latest — and biggest — of a series of legal cases involving him.

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.

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

Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau said the government must be as ambitious as possible with budget cuts to tackle the “chronic sickness” of the country’s public finances and restore economic confidence after months of political upheaval.

The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany gathered in the Belarusian capital to settle the armed conflict that erupted in Donbass

Emmanuel Carrère chronicled the trial of the perpetrators of the November 2015 attacks on Paris. It makes a sharp contrast with the United States’ efforts at Guantanamo.

In 2021, he was convicted of knowingly exceeding spending limits during his second presidential campaign in 2012, which he lost to François Hollande. An appeals court upheld the ruling, but Sarkozy has taken the case to the highest court in France that ...