French presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande headed into the last round of his battle with Nicolas Sarkozy, with both candidates under threat.
Nearly a year after a US raid killed Osama bin Laden, his core al-Qaeda network in Pakistan is "essentially gone" say US intelligence officials.
If Francois Hollande becomes president of France, it will be a job he has worked for and hankered after for most of his adult life.
Leading France’s Front National to its best first-round result in her first presidential campaign, Marine Le Pen counts herself as the big winner.
Candidates are trading accusations after the opposition rejected Nicolas Sarkozy’s demand for three public debates before the final vote on May 6.
Nicolas Sarkozy is courting the far right to help him win France’s presidential runoff, but his socialist challenger will likely prevail regardless.
France has voted in round one of a presidential ballot where frustration at high unemployment may mean Nicolas Sarkozy loses his re-election bid.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says barring social networks from publishing exit polls and early results ahead of an official embargo are outdated.
French social media users have been warned not to "bugger" the country’s election by talking about exit poll results before voting is officially over.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has urged networks not to broadcast videos shot by an Islamist extremist killer during a shooting spree in France.
A French judge has charged the former head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn over his alleged links with a prostitution ring.
President Nicolas Sarkozy says he would bar some Muslim preachers from entering France as part of a crackdown after shootings there by an extremist.
Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah’s brother is under investigation on suspicion of being an accomplice to the killing spree that left seven people dead.
Signs have mounted that the brother of a radical Islamist gunman who killed schoolchildren and paratroopers in France may have helped him.
The older brother of the radical Islamist Mohamed Merah who killed seven people in France has told police he is "proud" of his brother.
French security has been sanguine about the Muslim fundamentalist threat but last week’s shooting may change things.
French media is reporting that an al-Qaeda-inspired gunman who confessed to killing seven people in France is dead after police stormed his apartment.
A gunman suspected of killing seven people, including three children at a Jewish school, says he would hand himself over to police.
A gunman suspected of killing three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in France has wounded three police officers in a shoot-out during a raid.
France has all but forgotten its presidential election amid a massive manhunt for the serial killer who slew children and a teacher in Toulouse.
A gunman has shot dead at least four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse, days after soldiers were killed in similar shootings in the same area.
The Toulouse prosecutor says a gunman has opened fire in front of a Jewish school in a southwest French city killing several people.
France and the ICC have filed requests with Mauritania to extradite Libya’s ex-spy chief Abdullah Senussi as Tripoli insists on putting him on trial.
SA and Lesotho are hoping to attract funding for their infrastructure plans when they show off their giant water project in France this week.
French leader Nicolas Sarkozy says he will quit politics if he loses next month’s election as his challenger presses home on the incumbent’s record.
The state has allegedly urged French and Chinese nuclear companies to put in a bid for nuclear power stations, but the energy department denies this.
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The Arab League is likely to launch a "Friends of Syria" coalition and appoint a special envoy to the strife-torn country.
After 50 years, France remains divided over the Algerian war, a conflict which ended 132 years of colonial rule and almost tore French society apart.
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A French project featuring a range of anti-piracy features, including sound blasts, has been unveiled at a shipping security forum in Nantes.
Human Rights Watch have slated French police for allegedly singling out black and Arab men for random checks as part of a new crime fighting policy.
The creator of the popular Dukan diet wants to tackle obesity among French students, but the
scales might be starting to tip against him.
Former soccer star Eric Cantona wants to run in this year’s presidential election in France and is trying to gather the signatures needed to do so.