Tag: France

FILE - In this Sunday April 20, 2014 file photo, released French hostage Nicolas Henin arrives at the Villacoublay military airbase, outside Paris. A French journalist held hostage for months by extremists in Syria says one of his captors was a Frenchman suspected of killing four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum earlier this year. French magazine Le Point on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, quotes its reporter Nicolas Henin as saying he was tortured by Mehdi Nemmouche, a Frenchman who had spent time with extremists in Syria. Henin was held for a time with American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, both beheaded by extremists from the Islamic State group in recent weeks. He was released in April with other French journalists who had been held since June 2013. Nemmouche is in custody since his arrest in France soon after the Brussels killing in May. The attack crystallized fears of European governments that Europeans who join radical fighters in Syria could return to stage attacks at home. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, file)

National Security

French ex-hostage identifies captor in Syria

SYLVIE CORBETLORI HINNANT · September 6, 2014 5:10 pm

National Security

Russian sailors in limbo in French port

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2014 7:05 pm

France ready to act against Islamic State group

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2014 3:40 pm

A pile of former French first lady Valerie Trierweiler's book "Thank You for this Moment", is pictured in a Paris bookstore, France, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. The former companion of French President Francois Hollande writes in a book that the Socialist presents himself as someone who doesn't like the rich, but in fact "doesn't like the poor." The couple broke up in January amid reports Hollande was having an affair with actress Julie Gayet. The book risks further damaging the image of the already deeply unpopular president even though the French had little love for Trierweiler, who couldn't find her place as first lady. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

French president’s ex depicts him as cruel, lying

Sylvie Corbet · September 4, 2014 7:11 pm

France is suspending the delivery of a hulking warship to Russia amid security concerns about Moscow's actions in neighboring Ukraine, President Francois Hollande's office said Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Vincent)

National Security

France backs off sale of warships to Russia, for now

Charles Hoskinson · September 3, 2014 7:22 pm

A French fireman and his dog search in the rubble of a building after an explosion collapsed it, in Rosny-sous-Bois, outside Paris, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014. French authorities say a four-story building in a northeastern Paris suburb has collapsed after an explosion, killing a child. More people are thought to underneath the rubble. Speaking on i-Tele, fire department spokesman Gabriel Plus said around 10 people were evacuated from the building in Rosny-sous-bois that occurred early Sunday morning. Plus said that around another 10 people could still be underneath the rubble, and emergency teams were working hard to rescue people who might be trapped. "We could still find living victims in the hours to come," he said. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has arrived at the scene, but couldn't confirm a theory that the explosion was caused by a gas leak. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Partial building collapse in Paris suburb kills 2

Washington Examiner · August 31, 2014 1:28 pm

A customer enters a McDonald's in Chicago, Illinois. (Getty images/Tim Boyle)

Beltway Confidential

McDonald’s: Vive la France!

Michael Barone · August 30, 2014 12:36 am

French girl investigated over alleged jihad plan

Washington Examiner · August 29, 2014 6:31 pm

Chartres Cathedral (Photo by Wikimedia user Ireneed, used under a Creative Commons license.)

Beltway Confidential

The American hero who saved Chartres Cathedral

Michael Barone · August 28, 2014 8:55 pm

French President Francois Hollande delivers his speech to French Ambassadors at the Elysee Palace, Thursday, Aug. 28. 2014. The French leader who once decried global finance and vowed a 75-percent tax on millionaires has quashed dissent from his Socialist government's left flank and appointed a well-heeled former investment banker as his new point man on the economy. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

France rules out Assad as partner in terror fight

Washington Examiner · August 28, 2014 12:29 pm

France's President Francois Holland, left, shakes hands with France's new Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, right, as French finance minister Michel Sapin, centre, looks on, as they leave their weekly cabinet meeting, in Paris, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. France's prime minister reshuffled his Cabinet on Tuesday to silence ministers who had openly criticized Socialist President Francois Hollande's economic policies as he tries to pull the nation out of stagnation and steer it toward growth. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

French leader banks on free market to save economy

JAMEY KEATENSYLVIE CORBET · August 28, 2014 10:34 am

FILE - In this March 19, 2014 file photo, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde arrives at a courthouse, in Paris, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Lagarde says she is under official investigation for negligence in a French corruption probe that dates back to her days as finance minister. In a statement released Wednesday, Aug.27, 2014 after a fourth round of questioning before magistrates, Lagarde said she was returning to her work in Washington later in the day and said the decision was "without basis." She and her former chief of staff face questions about their role in a 400 million-euro ($531 million) payment to a businessman. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

IMF chief Lagarde under investigation in France

Lori Hinnant · August 27, 2014 6:19 pm