While incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist challenger Francois Hollande appear to be evenly matched for the first round of France's presidential elections, Hollande is expected to win the second round easily.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's opponents suggested Wednesday he had been "stage-managing" the televised arrests of suspected Islamist extremists in order to give himself a boost in the upcoming presidential poll.

Thirteen men whom Nicolas Sarkozy described as Islamic militants are facing charges in France, suspected of terrorist activities. Prosecutors also claim the men had discussed plans to kidnap a Jewish judge, as Al Jazeera's Tim Friend reports.

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The remains of Mohamed Merah, the 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian origin who killed seven people in Montauban and Toulouse, will be interred in France after Algeria refused to allow burial there, an official at Paris's Grand Mosque said Thursday.

French prosecutors filed preliminary murder and terrorism charges Sunday against Abdelkader Merah, the brother of Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah. Under French law, preliminary charges indicate a strong suspicion that a crime was committed.

Hundreds of shocked residents in France's southern city of Toulouse came out on the streets to mourn the recent killings of seven locals. The French government has denied that failures by its intelligence services allowed the killings to be carri...

Mohammed Merah, the man suspected of killing seven people in and around Toulouse, has been killed after shooting on police surrounding his flat in the city. France's interior minister Claude Gueant gave the news to reporters at the scene.

Mohammed Merah, the man suspected of killing at least seven people in three separate shootings in and around Toulouse, is dead after a police siege was brought to a dramatic end today with sustained bursts of gunfire. However, questions remain ove...