In a startling new claim concerning France's murky past ties with African leaders, Mr Giscard said the 73-year old Gabonese premier who died on Monday spent years building up a "very questionable ...

Former French President Jacques Chirac passed away yesterday after a long illness. Many of the obituaries praised the French leader’s foresight for objecting to the Iraq war. “Jacques Chirac, French ...

This week, French commentators say, will be decisive in determining whether the government can weather the current labor protest or face upheaval with serious economic consequences. Premier Jacques ...

Jacques Chirac, the former French president, has blasted Britain's former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for the way she handled the Irish hunger strikes in 1981. "No reform is worth the death of a ...