France's left-wing opposition has won a majority in the Senate for the first time in recent French history in a major blow to conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy seven months before the country's presidential election.
A lawyer for former International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed for dismissal of the civil sexual assault case brought by a New York hotel maid, citing international legal immunity.
The estranged wife of Thierry Gaubert (pictured), French President Nicolas Sarkozy's former communications adviser, told investigators on Friday that her husband made several trips to Switzerland with an arms dealer to pick up suitcases of cash.
Former French President Jacques Chirac denied charges of misuse of public funds when he was mayor of Paris in the 1990s in a statement read by his lawyer on the closing day of his trial Friday. The judge is due to return his verdict on December 15.
Soon after President Barack Obama ruled out a “shortcut” to a Palestinian state Wednesday, his French counterpart took to the stage to make a proposal: non-member statehood. Widely expected not to take flight, is the stunt driven by ulterior motives?
Five months after France's "burqa ban" came into effect, a police court Thursday issued its first fines against two women for wearing the niqab, a veil covering the entire face. The pair vowed to appeal to the European Commission of Human Rights.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office took a hit Thursday after a second ally, Nicolas Bazire, was charged in connection with “Karachigate”, a graft case involving arms sales to Pakistan. Bazire was best man at Sarkozy’s wedding to Carla Bruni.
The Paris prosecutor on Tuesday asked that former French President President Jacques Chirac and nine others be acquitted in an embezzlement trial relating to Chirac's time as mayor of Paris.
Reactions to ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Sunday interview were eviscerating, with critics slamming a non-confrontational interview that yielded few details and fewer signs of genuine remorse.
Parisian Muslims escaped a government ban on street prayers Friday when some 5,000 worshippers piled into a makeshift mosque in the north of the capital.
In a televised debate Thursday, left-wing presidential hopefuls pledged to raise taxes on the rich and honour France’s commitments to economic recovery by reducing the deficit as they vied for support ahead of next month’s primary election.
