News about France

Merkel, Hollande urge 'unified' response to EU refugee crisis German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande called for a "unified" response to the worst refugee crisis to hit the EU since World War II.
25 August 2015 10:01
Don't ever 'stand by', US 'heroes' plead after train attack Three American friends who overpowered a heavily-armed gunman in a train poured cold water on his claim that he had no intention of waging a bloody attack.
24 August 2015 11:48
Hollande, Merkel 'to discuss EU migrant crisis on Monday' The French and German leaders will meet in Berlin on Monday to give a new push to European efforts to tackle the biggest migrant crisis in 50 years.
24 August 2015 11:05
Police quiz gunman over French train attack French investigators were interrogating a man who was overpowered by three young Americans after he opened fire with a Kalashnikov on a trainbetween Amsterdam and Paris.
22 August 2015 15:42
EU ministers to hold migrant crisis talks in October: France Europe's interior and foreign ministers will meet in mid-October to discuss how to respond to the huge influx of migrants and refugees arriving at EU borders.
21 August 2015 15:36
France's Le Pen booted out of his far-right party Jean-Marie Le Pen, France's elderly, far-right master provocateur, was booted out of the National Front (FN) he founded after a high-profile feud with his daughter and party leader Marine.
21 August 2015 12:12
France and Britain to sign deal on Calais migrant crisis France and Britain are to sign a deal Thursday aimed at alleviating the migrant crisis in Calais, where thousands of people desperate to cross the Channel have gathered in slum-like conditions.
20 August 2015 14:16
France calls off search for MH370 wreckage off Reunion France said it was calling off the hunt for wreckage from missing flight MH370 after 10 days of air and sea searches off its Indian Ocean territory of Reunion yielded no results.
18 August 2015 13:46
France to conduct MH370 searches off Reunion until Monday France will conduct air and sea searches off its Indian Ocean territory of Reunion until the start of next week for debris from missing flight MH370.
13 August 2015 12:04
Families of Germanwings crash victims plan US lawsuit: report Relatives of victims of the Germanwings crash in the French Alps hope to take their compensation claims against parent company Lufthansa to a US court.
10 August 2015 15:11
Kazakh folk ensemble to perform in Paris Kerbez folk ensemble of Semey Phillarmonic Hall named after Amre Kashaubayev in eastern Kazakhstan will perform in Paris.
10 August 2015 12:36
France hunts for more MH370 debris off Reunion island France launched a hunt for more wreckage from the ill-fated MH370 plane off Reunion island on Friday in a fresh effort to shed light on one of aviation's biggest mysteries.
08 August 2015 11:08
Greek PM sees bailout deal after August 15 Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and French President Francois Hollande agreed that Athens and its international creditors "can and must" reach a bailout deal after August 15.
07 August 2015 12:18
'No difficulty' for France to find Mistral buyers: Hollande French President Francois Hollande said there would be "no difficulty" in finding new buyers for two Mistral warships that had been sold to Russia before Paris scrapped the deal.
07 August 2015 11:17
Hollande, Putin reach accord on cancelled warship deal French President Francois Hollande's office said he had reached an agreement with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on compensation for failing to deliver two Mistral warships over the Ukraine crisis.
06 August 2015 14:29
French prosecutor says 'very high probability' wreckage from MH370 There is a "very high probability" that wreckage found on the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion comes from the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH37.
06 August 2015 12:40
EU offers to help France, Britain face Calais migrant crisis The European Commission offered Tuesday to help France and Britain deal with the migrant crisis at the Channel Tunnel.
05 August 2015 11:05
MH370 investigators meet in France ahead of wing analysis Malaysian aviation experts met French officials to coordinate the investigation into missing flight MH370, days after the discovery of a washed-up plane part offered fresh hopes of solving the mystery.
04 August 2015 11:18
Germany wrong to propose temporary 'Grexit': French minister French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said in an interview that his German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble was "wrong" to propose a temporary withdrawal from the euro for debt-laden Greece.
03 August 2015 14:00
French police foil '1,000 bids' to cross Channel French police said they had prevented more than 1,000 desperate attempts by migrants to get into Britain via the Channel Tunnel.
01 August 2015 13:56
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