France to reinstate border controls during COP21
PARIS — France plans to reinstate border controls for one month from the beginning of the Paris COP21 climate talks starting on November 30, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told RMC radio today....
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Marine Le Pen takes sharp left turn
DOUAI, France — Call her the welfare state’s Joan of Arc. As far-right leader Marine Le Pen seeks election in depressed northern France, her message to voters boils down to: Choose me, I’ll restore...
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‘An act of war’
PARIS — French President François Hollande called a series of deadly terrorist attacks in Paris Friday night “an act of war,” saying the Syria-based militant group ISIL was behind them. Scores of...
View ArticleParis attacker slipped into Europe with refugees
PARIS — At least one of the assailants in France’s worst-ever terrorist attack was a Syrian who entered Europe through Greece with a group of migrants, French and Greek authorities said Saturday,...
View ArticleManuel Valls: France must ‘annihilate’ ISIS
PARIS — Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Saturday that France needed to scale up military operations in Syria in order to “annihilate” the Islamic State group, a day after assailants killed 129 people...
View ArticleHollande’s rivals start sniping at him
PARIS — Forty-eight hours after France’s worst-ever terrorist attacks, rivals to President François Hollande began Sunday to pick apart the façade of national unity meant to bind the country together...
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François Hollande: We will ‘destroy’ ISIL
PARIS — French President François Hollande called Monday for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss a joint response to terrorism, and asked the French Parliament to enact sweeping...
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6 takeaways on Hollande’s speech
To wage his “war” against ISIL, François Hollande wants to seduce his allies abroad and reduce his opposition at home. In a widely anticipated speech Monday in front of a rare joint session of...
View ArticleIn blame game, Sarkozy takes hit for police cuts
PARIS — As police round up suspects linked to the November 13 Paris attacks, France has started to grapple with a vexing question: How could the security services have failed to stop such a massive...
View ArticleParis attacks ‘ringleader’ Abaaoud killed
PARIS — The Paris prosecutor’s office said Thursday that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian suspected of being the architect of November 13 Paris attacks that left 129 dead, was killed in a police raid...
View ArticleAt least 18 dead after Mali hotel attack
At least 18 people were dead after a hostage stand-off at a hotel in the Malian capital of Bamako Friday, where gunmen had taken 170 hostages. Mali’s government said the gunmen were no longer holding...
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France, Britain to step up fight against ISIL
PARIS — France and Britain will cooperate more closely to fight terrorism at home and intensify their efforts to destroy the ISIL group in Iraq and Syria, the leaders of both nations said Monday in...
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The Le Pens and France’s fear factor
PARIS — Few French politicians are better positioned to capitalize on widespread security fears and angst about Islam after the Paris terror attacks than far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her...
View ArticleFrance, US vow to ‘destroy’ ISIL
France and the United States will intensify and expand airstrikes against ISIL in Syria and Iraq, while working together more closely to select targets for destruction, the presidents of both countries...
View ArticleFrench, German ministers want €10 billion EU security, refugee fund
PARIS — France and Germany should create a €10 billion fund to fight terrorism and improve Europe’s handling of the refugee crisis, or risk seeing EU members split apart on the issue, the economy...
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Big business behind climate change
PARIS — Welcome to the COP21 climate conference — a high-stakes gathering of global leaders brought to you by the French state … and a host of big companies, some of whom also happen to be major...
View ArticleLe Pen victory would be ‘disaster,’ says ex-aide
PARIS — With voting in France’s regional elections just days away, a former top aide to Marine Le Pen warned that her National Front party was far from being ready to rule and that victory could spell...
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Hollande’s election nightmare
PARIS — François Hollande faces the first round of local elections across France Sunday that could deliver two devastating results: a trouncing of his ruling Socialist party, and fresh evidence of the...
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Big gains for far-right in French election
PARIS — Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front made major gains in French regional elections Sunday, winning more than a quarter of the vote and coming out on top in six out of 13 regions. The...
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France fears Brexit debate will boost Le Pen
PARIS — David Cameron’s plans to renegotiate the U.K.’s relationship with the EU are causing concerns in France, where officials fear that any discussion about Europe as an “ever closer union” will...
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