“The terrorist threat is real and today our vigilance, therefore, is reinforced,” French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said today. In the recent past, there was a false bomb alert at the Eiffel Tower, and then five French workers and...

France’s lower house of parliament has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban wearing the Islamic full veil in public. There were 335 votes for the bill and only one against in the 557-seat National Assembly. It must now be ratified by...

Israel’s cabinet approved on Monday an Israeli inquiry into a deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, a commission set to include two foreign observers after international calls for an impartial investigation. Angered by the killing of nine Turkish...

The French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner has suggested that Europe take responsibility for oversight of materials entering Gaza from the sea. Under an international agreement, European observers are supposed to monitor people entering Gaza...

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France yesterday said that everyone who took part in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi should be hunted down and punished. He said this while on a one-day visit to Rwanda where he held talks with President Paul Kagame at...

Ernest Hemingway did it. So did Julia Child and patriots like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Humorist David Sedaris is doing it now, as are Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, along with their six children. These famous Americans...

The charge? Psychological violence. That’s what the new offence will be called if a bill backed by the government is passed by parliament.

Opposition politicians from the left denounced the comments by the minister for families, Nadine Morano, as racist. The highly outspoken Morano, who is a member of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s inner circle, made the remarks on Monday evening in a...

Nicolas Sarkozy today voiced sympathy for Switzerland’s controversial decision to ban the building of Muslim minarets, calling on religious practitioners to avoid “ostentation” and “provocation” for fear of upsetting...

It has been billed as a quest for the soul of the Gallic nation: a voyage of discovery, with Nicolas Sarkozy at the helm, to discover the je ne sais quoi that makes French people French. But, as the government today launched a three-month “grand...