By Lisa Bryant Paris 24 September 2007 More than four decades after quitting NATO's military wing, France may be considering rejoining. Critics say the move is largely symbolic, since Paris is already an active member in the transatlantic alliance. B...
By David Gollust Washington 21 September 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner Friday agreed on the need for more pressure, through sanctions and business restrictions, to get Iran to curb its nucl...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 20 September 2007 The French National Assembly hasadopted legislation tightening immigration requirements. The senate has not yet examined the bill, which includes a controversial provision for voluntary DNA testing. But, from P...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 18 September 2007 French President Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed Tuesday to push through wide-ranging labor market reforms, including relaxing a key labor law and trimming special pension privileges for some workers. Lisa Bryant has...
By Anita Elash Paris 03 August 2007 France and Libya have agreed to their first arms deal since the European Union lifted an arms embargo on Libya in 2004. The deal comes after the release last week of six medical workers who Libya accused of intenti...
By Brian Wagner Miami 23 July 2007 Lawyers for former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega have asked a U.S. judge to block his possible extradition to France to face money-laundering charges. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports that Noreiga is seekin...
By Anita Elash Paris 23 July 2007 The wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in Libya Monday for a second time to negotiate the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to life in prison for allegedly contaminating chi...
Grosso, Grosso, Italy's Fabio Grosso scoring in the final minutes of a second overtime in Italy's semifinal World Cup victory over Germany. Now Italy will play France. France defeated Portugal yesterday. Sunday is the World Cup Final. We are joined b...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 05 July 2007 Rwanda's foreign minister says France is refusing to try former officials on charges that they may have been complicit in the 1994 genocide because it does not want them to be associated with such a crime. Nick Wa...
By Sonja Pace Civaux, France 16 May 2007 Rising oil prices, the volatility of supplies, and need for alternative energy sources that will not add to climate change and global warming - these are issues increasingly in the public limelight, hotly deb...