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France's former President Sarkozy standing trial over alleged campaign funding by Libya's Gadhafi

Jan. 06, 2025 06:23 AM EST

PARIS (AP) — France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial Monday over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of then-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The Libyan case, the biggest and possibly most shocking of several scandals...

Blinken heads to Asia, Europe on last expected trip as top US diplomat

Jan. 03, 2025 19:38 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will embark on what is expected to be his final overseas trip in office this weekend, traveling to South Korea, Japan and France. The State Department announced Friday that Blinken would visit Seoul, Tokyo and Paris beginning...

Middle East latest: Germany and France seek a 'new beginning' with Syria

Jan. 03, 2025 14:34 PM EST

The top diplomats from Germany and France were in Syria on Friday to send what the German minister called a clear signal that Europe and Syria can have a “political new beginning" after Islamist insurgents ousted Bashar Assad. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and her...

Algerian social media influencer detained in France accused of calling for attacks

Jan. 03, 2025 11:13 AM EST

PARIS (AP) — French police on Friday detained a social media influencer from Algeria who is accused of calling on his followers to carry out attacks in France, Interior Minster Bruno Retailleau said. The arrest in the Brittany port city of Brest on France's western coast comes as...

The world welcomes 2025 with light shows, embraces and ice plunges

Jan. 01, 2025 13:28 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — From Sydney to Mumbai to Paris to Rio de Janeiro, communities around the world welcomed 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges. The New Year’s Eve ball dropped in soggy Times Square, where thousands of revelers stuck it out in heavy rain to...

Germany, France and Poland condemn violence in Georgia, stress support for pro-democracy movement

Jan. 01, 2025 00:48 AM EST

BERLIN (AP) — The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland on Tuesday expressed concern about “the political crisis” in Georgia, two days after former soccer player Mikheil Kavelashvili was formally inaugurated as president of the South Caucasus nation, cementing the ruling party’s...

Ivory Coast asks French troops to leave, the latest African country to do so

Dec. 31, 2024 18:29 PM EST

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast announced on Tuesday that French troops will leave the country after a decadeslong military presence, the latest African nation to downscale military ties with its former colonial power. Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara said the pullout...

France's Macron acknowledges that dissolving parliament in 2024 backfired but celebrates Olympics

Dec. 31, 2024 16:34 PM EST

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged Tuesday in his New Year’s address to the nation that his decision to dissolve parliament, casting France into a political crisis, backfired. “I must recognize tonight that the dissolution has, for the moment, brought...

French prime minister unveils recovery plan for devastated Mayotte after Cyclone Chido

Dec. 30, 2024 13:56 PM EST

PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister François Bayrou arrived Monday in the Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte to unveil a recovery plan three weeks after Cyclone Chido brought devastation. Bayrou, recently appointed as prime minister, also updated the death toll to 39 but urged...

3 die off northern France coast in a Channel crossing attempt

Dec. 29, 2024 12:27 PM EST

PARIS (AP) — At least three migrants died early Sunday while attempting to cross the English Channel to Britain from northern France, authorities said. The deaths were confirmed after an early morning rescue operation involving French emergency services and the navy’s “Dauphin” helicopter. ...