French Soldier Threatens to Blow Up Explosives
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About 400 inhabitants of three villages in France's eastern region of Marne were evacuated on Sunday after a soldier threatened to blow up a site storing explosives.
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BAGHDAD  - A French national who claims he has secured a deal for the release of two French reporters kidnapped in Iraq last month said Wednesday he is waiting for a US authorization to extract the pair by air.
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ANGOULEME, France  - Everything must be done to avoid the prospect of war with Iran, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Monday, a day after his foreign minister said Paris should prepare for that possibility.
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Hundreds of demonstrators faced off with French troops in Abidjan on Monday after state radio urged protesters to form a &quot;human shield&quot; to
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PARIS The French prime minister has expressed concern about the loss of a bag containing explosives at Paris&#39; main airport. The bag containing plastic explosives disappeared during a dog training exercise at Charles de Gaulle airport on Friday.
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France's foreign minister says the world should prepare "at worst" for war over Iran's nuclear programme.
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A French prosecutor demanded a maximum 10 year jail sentence on Friday for a French Muslim convert suspected of plotting to attack an Australian nuclear plant as a member of a Sydney terrorist cell.
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Spanish explosives experts blew up a  suspicious object found on an electricity pylon near the French  border on Saturday after Basque separatist guerrillas ETA  warned they had planted two bombs, police said.
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France's police minister vowed on Monday to punish officers who planted explosives in an unwitting plane passenger's luggage to test their sniffer dogs but then lost the "bomb," which remains missing after a three-day hunt.
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A French philosophy teacher has gone into hiding under police protection after receiving death threats for an article he wrote attacking Islam and the Prophet Mohammed.Comment
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier made an impassioned plea to try to save the lives of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq as an ultimatum issued by their kidnappers neared expiry.
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A soldier, angry about being forced to retire, was holed up in an army depot with 60 tons of explosives Sunday, threatening to blow it up.
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An armed group claimed in a video Thursday to have obtained a large amount of explosives missing from a munitions depot facility in Iraq and threatened to use them against foreign troops.
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Soaring Eurotunnel shares prompt an unusual warning from the French stock market regulator.
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A French soldier who locked himself in an explosives depot and threatened to blow it up surrendered Monday, ending a three-day standoff, the Interior Ministry said.
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France's foreign minister warned Sunday that the world should prepare for war if Iran obtains nuclear weapons and said European leaders were considering their own economic sanctions against the Islamic country.
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A moment of carelessness had humiliating consequences for French bomb squad officers, when they accidentally mislaid an explosive device, hidden for training purposes in an unknown passenger&#39;s suitcase, triggering a global terror alert.