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Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was ordered on Wednesday to stand trial in apolitical smear campaign that targeted President Nicolas Sarkozy, a French judicial official said.

By Vasily Likachev The EU-Russia summit held in Nice last week clearly showed that the two sides are capable of creating constructive proposals to address not only the financial crisis but also areas such as ...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy first floated the idea for the fund last month but did not put a price tag on it until Thursday's announcement.

Wed, Nov 19, 2008 A top Rwandan official sought in connection with the assassination that sparked the African country's 1994 genocide was transferred Wednesday from Germany to France, which had issued an arrest ...

Unlike presidential transitions in the past, observers say President-elect Obama and President Bush are working together to make this a relatively smooth one.

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, singer and wife of France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, performs on the NBC "Today" television program, in New York Wednesday Nov.

Cyprus is backing Russia's call for a new European security treaty and urging other European Union members to do the same.

Greek Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias has enthusiastically embraced Russia's initiative during Kremlin meetings with President Dmitry Medvedev.

Russia dislikes NATO, and Medvedev has made calls for a new trans-Atlantic security treaty a major foreign policy thrust of his 6-month-old presidency.

Western response has been lukewarm, but Russia got a boost last week when French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed a pan-European security conference next year.

PARIS a ' A former French prime minister was ordered Tuesday to stand trial over a political smear campaign against Nicolas Sarkozy before he became France's president, a French judicial official said.

France will host a January meeting of world leaders and experts to seek solutions to the global financial crisis, in a follow-up to last weekend's meeting in Washington, the French president's office announced Tuesday.

The announcement comes after President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown returned from the Washington summit with less ambitious commitments than they had pushed for on changes to the world financial system.

The Jan. 8-9 meeting in Paris will be co-hosted by Sarkozy and Brown's predecessor, Tony Blair. French officials said it was too soon to confirm which world leaders will attend, but that Nobel economists including Joseph Stiglitz and India's Amartya Sen will be present.

France last night triggered a diplomatic row by pulling out of a plan to deport England-bound illegal immigrants from Calais.

Investigating judges honored a prosecutor's request by ordering the conservative Dominique de Villepin to stand trial in criminal court on charges of "complicity in slanderous denunciations," the official said ...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called Saturday for talks with Barack Obama as soon as possible after the U.S. president-elect takes the oath of office.

Glenn Greenwald! tel l them they'll be like George Bush if they do it : Nicolas Sarkozy saved the President of Georgia from being hanged "by the balls" - a threat made last summer by Vladimir Putin, according ...

France's opposition Socialists are still looking for a new leader, after a party congress - that was meant to back a single candidate - ended in disarray.

Gold surged on Friday as world leaders gathered to battle the economic crisis, amid talk of a new Bretton Woods agreement to shore up the financial system, but calls to revisit the gold standard are unlikely.

The Taliban has threatened to launch attacks in Paris unless France withdraws from Afghanistan, in a video aired by Al Arabiya television.

Metz, France - A French member of parliament, said to be disturbed over losing his job as a town mayor, shot a woman dead on Monday before turning the gun on himself, officials said.

With the global economy threatening to slip into a prolonged recession, world leaders have come up with a lengthy action plan they hope will bolster badly shaken investors' confidence.

The plan was produced at a weekend meeting of leaders of the Group of 20, which included the world's wealthiest countries such as the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain and France plus emerging powers such as China, Russia, Brazil and India.

But analysts say it will take more than one meeting, as unprecedented as this gathering was, to turn the tide for a global economy undergoing its worst upheavals in decades.

French police have arrested the suspected leader of the military wing of banned Basque group ETA.

The man is suspected of being behind the killing of two Spanish civil guardsmen in southwest France last year.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has hailed the arrest of the suspect, Garikoitz Asiazu Rubina, as a sign of cooperation between French and Spanish police.

The French Interior Ministry said Asiazu Rubina was detained before dawn Monday in the Hautes-Pyrenees region along the Spanish border. The militant group ETA hopes to create a Basque homeland in the region.

France faces a week of disruption from transport and public sector strikes as unions wage a slew of separate campaigns against President Nicolas Sarkozy's labour reforms.