France’s suspected killer Mohamed Merah has died after the police stormed his besieged apartment in the southern city of Toulouse.
Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:3AM
A report says three blasts have been heard in the suburbs of Toulouse outside the hideout of a gunman suspected of killing seven people in the southwestern France city.
Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:55PM
France has launched the greatest manhunt in its history for a suspected serial killer a day after four people were shot dead at a Jewish school in the country’s southwest.
Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:55AM
The main suspects in Monday’s shooting at a Jewish school in southwest France, in which three children and an adult were killed, are three former paratroopers with neo-Nazi tendencies, according to the police.
Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:38PM
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called a deadly shooting spree that left four dead outside a Jewish school in the southwestern city of Toulouse a “national tragedy”.
Mon Mar 19, 2012 2:0PM
Tens of Thousands of people have rallied in Paris to support France’s far-left, as their presidential candidate of the Left Front coalition, Jean-Luc Melenchon, gains popularity, Press TV reports.
Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:15AM
At least four people have been killed in an apparent terror attack at a Jewish school in France’s southwestern city of Toulouse, according to witnesses.
Sun Mar 18, 2012 2:47PM
A new survey says that almost 80 percent of the French people believe their country is still in the midst of an economic crisis, compared to only 38 percent in Germany and 35 percent in China.
Sat Mar 17, 2012 6:42AM
At least one person has been killed and another seriously wounded during an attack by an assailant on the worshippers in a mosque in France’s northern town of Arras.
Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:36AM
Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has quit the country’s presidential race after failing to receive enough official signatures needed to register his candidacy.
Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:34PM
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Two soldiers have been killed and another wounded in a shooting incident near a military base in the southwestern city of Montauban in France.
Sun Mar 11, 2012 2:42PM
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has chartered trains and fleets of buses to ferry in people for a massive campaign rally, hoped to be a turning point in his fading chance of being re-elected.
Fri Mar 9, 2012 7:59AM
The opposition Socialists have denounced French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s promise of halving the number of the immigrants if reelected, describing it as ‘irresponsible’ and ‘blatant electioneering.’
Thu Mar 8, 2012 4:48PM
French President Nikolas Sarkozy says he will give up politics if he fails in his re-election bid, adding that his Socialist challenger, has a worrying "dearth of experience" for such troubled times.
Wed Mar 7, 2012 9:50AM
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has defended his re-election campaign promise to cut the number of foreign immigrants entering the country by half.
Sun Mar 4, 2012 10:48AM
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has once again highlighted his policies against immigrants Muslims in his recent presidential campaign in southwestern France, Press TV reports.
Sat Mar 3, 2012 2:46PM
French Interior Minister Claude Gueant has been accused of making racist comments after he condemned proposals by the socialist Francois Hollande to allow immigrants to vote in local elections.
Thu Mar 1, 2012 10:40PM
French President Nicolas Sarkozy hides in a bar to escape from hundreds of angry protesters who booed him during an election campaign in France's southwest Basque country.
Tue Feb 28, 2012 5:10PM
The Constitutional Council of France has rejected a bill which aims to set a punishment for the denial of an Armenian genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire in World War I, Press TV reports.
Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:19AM
France has dispatched riot forces to the Indian Ocean island of Reunion to beef up its security following violent protests against the high costs of living on the island.
Sat Feb 25, 2012 7:50AM
France’s unemployment rate has set a 12-year record high, as the French president threatens to end the aid for the jobless in order to reduce the country’s budget deficit, Press TV reports.
Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:49PM
The number of detainees in French prisons has hit a record high, according to a new report issued by the Chief Supervisor of Detention facilities, PressTV reports.
Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:44PM
A French court has started the trial of a French nuclear scientist for "criminal association” with a branch of the al-Qaeda terrorist group.
Mon Feb 20, 2012 3:3AM
The French president has, at his first major reelection rally, belittled the country’s neighbors for their domestic problems caused by Europe’s financial crisis, while not sparing the US his criticism.
Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:57AM
French demonstrators have taken to the streets of Paris to express solidarity with the economically-weakened Greek nation, Press TV reports.
Sat Feb 18, 2012 7:3PM
Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Khan is to be question as a suspect for his participation in an alleged illegal prostitution ring in northern France.
Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:49PM
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced he will seek re-election in the upcoming elections despite his low popularity ratings.
Thu Feb 9, 2012 7:3PM
A former French government minister has been charged with corruption in a scandal linked to alleged illegal campaign donations that funded President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign.
Thu Feb 9, 2012 1:51PM
French President Nicolas Sarkozy takes a populist turn as he plans to promise a referendum on jobs and immigration, along with a series of other propositions that could be seen as vote boosting programs.
Mon Feb 6, 2012 5:14PM
French aviation workers have launched a nationwide four-day strike over proposed changes to rules governing labor, forcing flights to be canceled or delayed.
Wed Feb 1, 2012 6:27PM
French presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande has been targeted in a flour-throwing attack during a speech about housing problems in Paris.
Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:23AM
French President Nikolas Sarkozy has backtracked on his latest promise of a faster-track exit from Afghanistan, saying France will continue its military presence by the end of 2013, Press TV reports.
Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:31PM
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has slammed French police for using racial profiling to conduct unwarranted and abusive identity checks on black and Arab young men and boys.
Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:28PM
France's Labor Ministry says the jobless figure in the eurozone's second-biggest economy has hit a 12-year high.
Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:44AM
The French Senate has approved a controversial bill that makes it illegal to deny that the Ottoman Empire carried out acts of genocide against the Armenians during World War I.
Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:28AM
The French Senate is to vote on a bill that criminalizes the denial of the 1915 Armenian genocide, a move that Turkey has threatened to retaliate by imposing permanent sanctions on Paris.
Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:46PM
Police in France have arrested a prominent rabbi, who founded the Liberal Jewish Movement in the country, on suspicion of raping an undisclosed number of underage girls.
Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:41PM
A French civil society, Laboratory of Equality, has launched a new awareness campaign to fight gender discrimination at workplace across the country, Press TV reports.
Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:25AM
Thousands of people have participated in a rally in Paris, attacking French President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans for dealing with the country's unemployment crisis, Press TV reports.
Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:11AM
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has downplayed the recent measure by Standard & Poor's (S&P;) to downgrade France's credit rating, saying it would “change nothing” for his country.
Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:11PM
France presidential hopeful Eva Joly has called for equal treatment for religions by according a national holiday to the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Fitr and the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur in the country.
Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:22PM
France's credit rating downgrade just over three months before its presidential ballot, is likely to have devastating effects on Nicolas Sarkozy's already difficult bid for re-election, Press TV reports.
Fri Jan 13, 2012 4:13PM
In 2011, France deported a record-breaking 33,000 illegal immigrants, which shows an 18 percent rise from the previous year, Press TV reports.
Sun Jan 8, 2012 2:23PM
Hundreds of French people have taken to the streets in the city of Clermont-Ferrand to denounce the police's heavy-handed tactics agianst residents.
Sat Jan 7, 2012 7:33PM
Workers at the French Petit Couronne refinery, owned by the Swiss Petroplus Company, have met union representatives from nearby refineries to call for a general strike.
Sat Jan 7, 2012 7:21PM
France's refining union is preparing to discuss possible action after Swiss-based Petroplus temporarily closed three of its European refineries.
Tue Jan 3, 2012 6:56PM
Newly released figures have shown an increase in the France's debt, forcing President Sarkozy's government to put the issue on the agenda.
Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:4AM
New figures released by the French Labor Ministry shows that the country's jobless rate hit a new 12-year high in November.
Mon Dec 26, 2011 4:2PM
French airport security staffs have vowed to continue their strike, four days after police was stationed at airports to ensure their action did not affect the Christmas travel rush.
Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:17AM
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has branded as “genocide” the killing of thousands of Algerians at the hands of French forces in 1945, as tensions between Paris and Ankara further intensify.
