Russia Today
| Apr 23, 2013
Paris protesters clashed with riot police after the French parliament passed a historic, controversial law allowing same-sex couples to marry and to adopt children. Applause erupted in the National Assembly when the bill passed 331 to 225, but pro...
Associated Press
| Apr 23, 2013
A powerful car bomb was used to attack the French embassy in Tripoli, Libya on Tuesday. At least two French guards were injured.
CNN
| Apr 9, 2013
A special young camel given as a gift to French President Francois Hollande by Mali authorities has ended up in an unfortunate home: the stomachs of a Malian family. C'est la vie. Hollande says he left the creature with the family for safekeeping ...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 4, 2013
Moves to legalize same-sex marriage in France have drawn a furious response from Catholic hardliners and other groups. The law has passed the National Assembly and is now before the Senate, but opponents are demanding it be put to a referendum.
Euronews
| Apr 2, 2013
When you're the French budget minister in charge of cracking down on tax dodgers for the Socialist government, it's probably not a good idea to evade taxes yourself by hiding funds in foreign banks. But that's what Jérôme Cahuzac has ...
Democracy Now!
| Mar 15, 2013
Today marks the second anniversary of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a conflict that has killed more than 70,000 people and created at least 1 million refugees. We're joined by Rim Turkmani, an astrophysicist and member of ...
Al Jazeera
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Mosaic
| Mar 14, 2013
France and the UK are pushing to supply arms to Syrian opposition fighters, and have requested that European Union talks on lifting the arms embargo currently imposed on rebel groups be brought forward. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said ...
Euronews
| Feb 19, 2013
A French family of seven, including four children, has been kidnapped in northern Cameroon close to the Nigerian border while on holiday. It's believed the kidnapping was in retaliation by Islamist group Boko Haram for France's intervention in Mal...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 2, 2013
French President Francois Hollande is visiting Mali to prepare discussions on a French troop withdrawal after French and Malian forces successfully captured several key towns, including Timbuktu. As Malians celebrate however, is a more complex eth...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 17, 2013
An Algerian military raid to free hostages at a desert gas plant is over, according to state media. Multiple fatalities have been reported, but it's still unclear exactly how many people were killed.
Al Jazeera's Paul Brennan reports.
— Jan 16 at 01:22 pm
...and African policy continues, if not expands, the pro-American line of his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy. The latest example is the French invasio...
— May 7, 2012 at 03:09 am
...Socialist candidate, François Hollande, has defeated Nicolas Sarkozy to become the next president. Hollande gave a speech to a large crowd at th...
— May 6, 2012 at 07:20 pm
...France since François Mitterrand left office in 1995. Mr. Hollande campaigned on a kinder, gentler, more inclusive France, but his victory over ...
— May 6, 2012 at 08:44 pm
...Styling himself on François Mitterrand, the last Socialist to capture the presidency 31 years ago, Mr Hollande's date with destiny is with Franc...
— May 7, 2012 at 05:32 pm
...– separated Socialist winner François Hollande from Nicolas Sarkozy in the French presidential elections. France may have simply preferred Holla...
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François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande is the 24th and current President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra. He was previously the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from 1997 to 2008, and the Deputy of the National Assembly of France for Corrèze's 1st Constituency from 1988 to 1993 and then again from 1997 to 2012. He also served as the Mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008 and the President of the General Council of Corrèze from 2008 to 2012. He was elected President of France on 6 May 2012, defeating the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, and was sworn in on 15 May. He is the second Socialist Party President of the Fifth French Republic, after François Mitterrand.
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