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US President Barack Obama on Thursday announced plans to scale back US drone strikes against extremists abroad and launched a new bid to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, in a major foreign policy speech after weeks of domestic scandals.
Cannes' competition soared Thursday with French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche's "La Vie d'Adèle" ("Blue is the Warmest Color"), a brilliantly acted, intensely erotic three-hour drama about a teenage girl in love with a slightly older woman.
Georges Moustaki, the prolific French singer and composer who wrote Edith Piaf's hit song 'Milord', died on Thursday after a long illness at the age of 79....
As experts worry about rising child obesity in France, a new study has revealed that French children have trouble identifying basic fruits and vegetables with some believing that pasta 'grows on trees'....
France supports a British proposal to add Hezbollah's military wing to the EU's list of terrorist groups, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (pictured) said Wednesday, citing Hezbollah's decision to fight alongside troops loyal to the Syrian regime....
France’s National Assembly on Thursday approved a plan to offer more courses in English at French universities in a bid to attract foreign students, despite critics claiming the move will undermine efforts to promote the language of Molière.
Prosecutors will question IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Thursday to determine whether she should face charges regarding a €400 million payout to disgraced businessman Bernard Tapie when she was France's finance minister in 2007....
An FBI agent fatally shot a man in Orlando, Florida who turned violent while being questioned in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings, officials said on Wednesday....
Five Yemeni nationals convicted of murder and of belonging to a criminal organisation were decapitated and hung by the shoulders from cranes Tuesday in the city of Jizan, in southwestern Saudi Arabia.
Talks between President Bashar al-Assad and Syrian rebels planned for June 10 show both sides realise the crisis is at a stalemate and that only a negotiated solution or foreign military intervention will bring it to a conclusion, says Zvi Bar'el....
