A French journalist who disappeared in Mali last month said in a video that emerged on social media on Wednesday that he had been kidnapped by a militant group and pleaded for help from French authorities.
In the 21-second clip, Olivier Dubois (...)
China condemned on Thursday a joint statement by Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) nations that expressed support for Chinese-claimed Taiwan and cast Beijing as a bully, saying it was gross interference in China's internal affairs.
In a (...)
LONDON — European powers have asked Israel to stop its settlement expansion policy across occupied Palestinian territories.
In a joint statement on Thursday, the governments of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom called the Israeli (...)
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will hold its 28th conference online next Monday on the latest developments in the field of nuclear fusion.
In a statement, IAEA Information Department in Vienna said that the five-day conference is (...)
France will not mandate wearing masks outdoors by summer if the country's vaccine rollout accelerates, French Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Tuesday.
"When we have enough French people vaccinated, we can let down our guard," Veran was quoted (...)
A farmer has — perhaps unwittingly — moved Belgium's border with France.
The man moved a 150-kilogram stone to enlarge his land near the Belgian village of Erquelinnes, according to local media.
But in doing so, he also modified the 200-year-old (...)
US President Joe Biden on Friday imposed new travel restrictions on travel from India, starting on Tuesday (May 4) in response to the surge of coronavirus cases and variants being observed in the country.
"On the advice of the Centers for Disease (...)
The Pakistan government is caught between a rock and a hard place following recent events that rocked the nation and made the government walk back on its actions after an ultra-right body Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) cadres ran amok without (...)
A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel killed at least 44 people and injured some 150 others early Friday, medical officials said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the (...)
RIYADH — Minister of Culture Prince Badr Bin Abdullah Bin Farhan met virtually on Thursday with French Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ludovic Pouille, the Saudi Press Agency reported early Friday.
During the meeting, they reviewed aspects of cultural (...)
France is to open up COVID-19 vaccination to people over the age of 18 from June 15, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Friday.
The announcement comes a day after Macron outlined his plan to phase out COVID-19 restrictions across the country. It (...)
Three cases of the Indian variant have been detected in France, the French health ministry has confirmed.
All three cases — one in the south-western départment of Lot et Garonne and two in Bouches-du-Rhone, in the southeast — involve people who have (...)
With reports of digital piracy increasing by more than 60 percent in some countries during the past 12 months, INTERPOL is launching a new project to tackle this fast-growing crime area.
With 2.7 million euro funding from the Korean Ministry of (...)
Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan, Minister of Culture, met virtually on Thursday, in a video conference, with the French Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ludovic Pouille.
During the meeting, they reviewed aspects of cultural cooperation (...)
India set another global record in new coronavirus cases on Thursday, with an additional 379,257 people infected as the country's medical system struggles to cope with the massive surge in infections.
The new cases bring the total number of COVID-18 (...)
French restaurants and bars as well as cultural sites and non-essential shops will be allowed to reopen to customers on May 19.
President Emmanuel Macron outlined the phasing out of restrictions in an interview with regional newspapers on (...)
Leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, United States and the European Union have signed a declaration containing a series of shared principles on how to tackle the global challenge of online safety, including that (...)
COVID-19 infections have increased for the ninth consecutive week globally while variants continue their spread, the UN health agency has confirmed.
Nearly 5.7 million new cases were reported in the last seven-day period, above previous highs, the (...)
India, home to the world's worst ongoing coronavirus outbreak, has reported more than 17.6 million cases since the pandemic began last year.
But the real number, experts fear, could be up to 30 times higher — meaning more than half a billion (...)
Help from the European Union (EU), UK and the United States (US) has begun arriving in India as the country battles a devastating surge of COVID-19 infections.
India recorded 323,144 new infections on Tuesday raising its total past 17.6 million, (...)
France has threatened retaliation if the UK does not respect Brexit commitments on fishing. The deal requires an EU member state-flagged vessel to acquire a license to fish in UK waters.
But so far only 22 of some 120 boats from Boulogne-sur-Mer, (...)
The UN Secretary-General on Monday called on Asian and Pacific countries not to base their pandemic recovery strategies on "outdated and unsustainable economic models", and to ensure that the world's most populous region protects its environment and (...)
The Ambassador of France to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ludovic Pouille stressed that Historic Jeddah represents a long-standing legacy of the city whose age exceeds thousands of years, and is considered one of the important cultural and heritage (...)
The commercially developed SpaceX Crew-2 Dragon ship carrying a group of four astronauts from the United States, Japan and France successfully docked with the International Space Station on Saturday following its liftoff from NASA's space center a (...)
Saudi Arabia is shipping 80 metric tons of liquid oxygen to India as the country is running low on supplies due to an unprecedented spike in coronavirus cases. The supply shipment is being undertaken in cooperation with the Adani group and Linde (...)
