France suspends delivery of warship to Russia
By SYLVIE CORBET and LORI HINNANT France suspended the delivery of a warship to Russia on Tuesday, after months of speculation about what would be the biggest arms sale ever…
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EU IMPOSES NEW SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIAN OFFICIALS
By JUERGEN BAETZ and SERGEI CHUZAVKOV A refrigerated train loaded with bodies of the passengers of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 departs Kharkiv railway station, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. The…
‘Timbuktu’ director breaks down over Mali conflict
By THOMAS ADAMSON Director Abderrahmane Sissako holds his hands over his face while answering a question during a press conference for Timbuktu at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern…
RUSSIA: ASSAD MULLING OPEN HUMANITARIAN ACCESS
By LARA JAKES and LORI HINNANT US Secretary of State John Kerry, right, with with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and U.N-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, center,…
FRENCH FIRST LADY HOSPITALIZED AFTER AFFAIR REPORT
By LORI HINNANT FILE – In this Tuesday, May. 7, 2013, file photo, French President Francois Hollande, left, and his companion Valerie Trierweiler arrive for a state dinner at the…
88-YEAR-OLD CHARGED IN NAZI-ERA MASSACRE
FILE – In this Jan. 1, 1953 b/w file picture, an aerial view of the destroyed Oradour-sur-Glane, in France is visible . German authorities have charged an 88-year-old former member…
CAPTIVE GOODYEAR BOSSES FREED AT FRENCH SITE
By LORI HINNANT A worker at the Goodyear tire factory guards the human resources chief, Bernard Glesser, left, and the firm’s production manager Michel Dheilly, right, who have been blocked…
FRANCE PUSHING EU TO FUND MILITARY INTERVENTIONS
By SYLVIE CORBET Former FARCA (Central African Republic Forces) soldiers linked to Anti-Balaka Christian militiamen who have set up camp in a school in the Boeing neighborhood of the Central…