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Mali has evidence French forces train militant groups on its territory, country’s prime minister says

Mali has evidence that French forces present in its territory with a mission to counter terrorist groups have been instead…

3 years ago

French envoy says Australia was ‘childish’ to keep nuclear sub talks with US secret ahead of recalled ambassador’s return

“It’s childish to say that it was impossible to consult France” on the deal, Ambassador Jean-Pierre Thebault told ABC radio…

3 years ago

Mali summons French envoy after Macron says Malian govt. ‘isn’t even a government’ in a row over troops withdrawal

A diplomatic row raging between France and Mali deepened further on Tuesday after the Malian Foreign Ministry summoned the French…

3 years ago

Algeria bans French military aircraft from its airspace amid diplomatic row with Paris

The French military became aware of Algiers’ decision on Sunday morning when they filed another flight plan with Algerian officials…

3 years ago

‘Most absolute of evils’: Investigation estimates up to 3,200 pedophile priests in French Catholic Church since 1950

The independent commission led by former vice president of the Council of State Jean-Marc Sauve was set up by the…

3 years ago

Escape from Dunkirk? French police FIRE at migrant boat-runners with rubber bullets, cracking bones and sending two to hospital

A night patrol on the beach at Dunkirk last week came upon eight Iranian Kurdish men carrying a dinghy toward…

3 years ago

Not Nice: French football fan who kicked Payet during Nice-Marseille Ligue 1 riot receives one-year suspended jail term

Tony Calzoni, aged 28, has been a Nice supporter since infancy and also received a five-year ban from attending their…

3 years ago

Former French president Sarkozy found guilty of illegally financing 2012 election campaign

The court is yet to announce the sentence that Sarkozy, who was president between 2007 and 2012, will receive. The…

3 years ago

French FM says it will take time and US action to restore trust, State Department makes no mention of it

Le Drian had famously called last week’s US announcement of the submarine pact with the UK and Australia a “stab…

3 years ago

Court case filed against French customs after officials refuse to disclose records of arms exports

The two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) released a statement on Thursday confirming that the case had been launched in the Administrative…

3 years ago