During the early debates over the Iraq war, one was constantly being challenged to contrast the “unilateralism” of the Bush administration with the more mature and “European” approach of Jacques ...

France’s new right-wing Gaullist president Nicolas Sarkozy, a victor in the second round run-off May 6 against his Socialist Party opponent Ségolène Royal, has recruited Bernard Kouchner, a member of ...

He is often a vexing and exceptional leader. No. 1 on France’s hit parade of political popularity, an iconoclastic and intermittent minister, Bernard Kouchner was first celebrated for fishing out the ...

In the Know features an interview, opinion or analysis from the people making the news in Africa each week. Six weeks after the restoration of relations between France and Rwanda, the French Minister ...

IT IS hard to see Bernard Kouchner as a diplomat. This free-wheeling, plain-talking humanitarian campaigner, who is now France's foreign minister, has little time for diplomatic niceties, stiff ...

“OUR silence in the face of the 200,000 deaths and 400,000 refugees of wars in Chechnya is not tenable. Nor is our indifference in the face of the 200,000 deaths from ethnic massacres in Darfur. We ...

August 1992. A group of private citizens concerned with ethnic cleansing and refugees are sitting in a rooftop restaurant in Banja Luka, in war-torn northwestern Bosnia, after a difficult day. With ...

August 1992. A group of private citizens concerned with ethnic cleansing and refugees are sitting in a rooftop restaurant in Banja Luka, in war-torn northwestern Bosnia, after a difficult day. With ...