Italy’s 87-year-old President Giorgio Napolitano was re-elected by lawmakers on Saturday in a desperate bid by right and left to end a two-month deadlock, a move slammed as a “coup” by a protest party that staged a rally in [...]

Police guarded Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in hospital Saturday as detectives searched for clues to how the Chechen teenager and his brother could have turned to terrorism. Tsarnaev was in “serious condition” in a hospital [...]

HALIFAX – France showed off its latest warship to the federal defence minister today in Halifax, as the Royal Canadian Navy considers options for designs of its next generation of combat vessels. Peter MacKay toured the 142-metre Fremm-class [...]

AFP – A section of a silk handscroll depicting a historically important trip by China’s longest-serving Emperor is to go up for auction in France next week. Two other Chinese pieces from private French collections will also go under [...]

The Catholic church was being discussed on the radio the other day when the presenter John Humphrys posed an interesting question: if any other organisation behaved so eccentrically and was embroiled in the same scandals, wouldn’t it [...]

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A gentleman from Lyon, France, wrote a response to one of my blog posts about the anti-gay demonstrations and homophobic acts of violence in  that country, saying: “Don’t boycott France. These people are not LA France. By saying that, you [...]

A French family of seven arrived back in France early Saturday morning following more than two months in captivity after they were taken hostage by Islamist militants in Cameroon. The Moulin-Fournier family — three adults and four boys [...]

Tanguy Moulin-Fournier; his wife, Albane; their four children; and his brother Cyril, touched down at a Paris airport in the early hours of Saturday morning after two months as hostages of the Nigerian group Boko Haram. The family flew back [...]

The general who ruled Pakistan for nearly a decade before being forced to step down appeared on Saturday in front of an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad in connection with charges linked to his 2007 sacking and detention of a number of judges. The [...]

Vodacom Super Rugby Cape Town – Western Province and Stormers scrumhalf Dewaldt Duvenage has signed a deal with French Top 14 club Perpignan. Duvenage, 24, started at scrumhalf for the Stormers in [...]

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A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit southwestern China’s Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 56 people and injuring about 600 close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008. The earthquake occurred at 8.02 a.m. [...]

Police captured a 19-year-old ethnic Chechen suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings with his older brother after an intense day-long manhunt on Friday that closed down the city and turned a working-class suburb into a virtual [...]

AFP – French President Francois Hollande welcomed a family of seven back to France early Saturday as they flew into Paris after two months in the hands of Nigeria’s Islamist militants. The Moulin-Fournier family, which includes four [...]

PARIS (AFP) – France’s bitter debate over gay marriage is set to reach a potentially explosive climax on Sunday, two days before a bill legalising same-sex unions is due to be finally approved. Opponents of the reform have been [...]

By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – France signaled on Friday it would push to modify a U.S. proposal to the United Nations to allow U.N. peacekeepers to monitor human rights in the disputed Western Sahara before deciding which [...]

MONTPELLIER, France (AP) – Clement Grenier scored in the last minute of stoppage time to give Lyon a 2-1 win over defending champion Montpellier in the French league Friday to provisionally move into second place. Grenier fired [...]

As part of NASCAR’s Race to Green Initiative this month, the sport’s executives and star drivers will participate in tree-planting ceremonies across the country. This weekend at Kansas Speedway, fans will see green-colored hybrid [...]

Britain’s credit standing took a further blow on Friday when Fitch Ratings became the second international agency to strip the country of its top-notch credit rating. Fitch trimmed the rating to AA-plus from AAA, citing a weaker economic and [...]

Enlarge Photo ** FILE ** United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announces Thursday, March 21, … more  Facebook Follow @washtimes There is evidence that Syria’s government forces used chemical weapons in several areas around [...]

Betty La France Betty La France is sarcastic; it’s a personality trait she attributes to growing up in Detroit. She was once intrigued by investigative journalism, and although she believes her personality would have fit the profession, it [...]

AFP – France’s bitter debate over gay marriage is set to reach a potentially explosive climax on Sunday, two days before a bill legalising same-sex unions is due to be finally approved. Opponents of the reform have been urged to [...]

By John Irish PARIS | Fri Apr 19, 2013 12:32pm EDT PARIS (Reuters) – France signaled on Friday it would push to modify a U.S. proposal to the United Nations to allow U.N. peacekeepers to monitor human rights [...]

PARIS | Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:13am EDT PARIS (Reuters) – France has opened a judicial investigation into allegations that former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election bid won illicit funds from late [...]

UNITED NATIONS –  U.N. diplomats and officials say Britain and France have told the secretary-general they have reliable evidence that the Syrian government used chemical weapons near Aleppo, in Homs and possibly in Damascus. The British [...]

Wayne Rooney has all the tools to play the role where Paul Scholes was so effective for Manchester United. Rooney may have been hurt to be left out of Manchester United’s Champions League tie in the second leg against Real Madrid – [...]

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By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – France, Morocco‘s traditional protector on the U.N. Security Council, is unlikely to use its veto to block a U.S. proposal to have U.N. peacekeepers monitor human rights [...]

The evidence, including soil samples and witness testimony, is not definitive. But the indications are such that “we are pressing the United Nations to investigate further and raising our concerns with international partners,” said [...]