The EU's politically sensitive debate over eurobonds

While the issue of the European Union's joint borrowing still faces strong opposition from Germany and the most fiscally ...

Sarkozy claims innocence in Libyan campaign funding case appeal trial

On the third day of his appeal trial over allegations that he sought funding from Muammar Gaddafi's Libya for his 2007 election campaign, ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy said he 'did not commit any of ...

US military strikes Iranian missile sites near Strait of Hormuz with bunker-buster bombs

US General Staff said they used some of the army's most powerful bombs because the targeted Iranian missile site was 'a risk ...

French police officers convicted of violence against Yellow Vest protesters

The Paris criminal court found nine riot police officers guilty of unjustifiably striking protesters who had taken shelter in a Burger King restaurant near the Arc de Triomphe in 2018.

Chilean man accused of murdering ex-girlfriend proclaims innocence yet again to French court

Nicolas Zepeda, accused of killing Japanese student Narumi Kurosaki in eastern Besançon in December 2016, appeared on Tuesday before a criminal court in Lyon for his third trial.

UAE's fishermen are collateral victims of the war in Iran

Since the start of the war in Iran, fishing boats have been confined to ports along the Emirati coastline near the Strait of ...

France rules out Hormuz ship escorts under 'bombings'

Speaking at a defense council meeting, Macron said France could help escort vessels in the strategic waterway, through which ...

Assassination of security chief Larijani strips Iran of key power broker

Ali Larijani, the head of the Supreme National Security Council and the most important political figure since the death of Ali Khamenei, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the house in Tehran where ...

Macron denounces far right and hard left, saying they 'remain dangerous'

In his first public comments since the first round of municipal elections, held on March 15, President Emmanuel Macron warned against parties making 'deals' with the 'extremes,' calling them ...

Strasbourg mayoral frontrunner's surprise alliance with center-right tears apart Socialists

The Socialist candidate who led in the first round has announced an alliance with a center-right candidate, in a bid to counter incumbent Green Mayor Jeanne Barseghian's alliance with the radical left ...
Opinion

'The war scripted by Trump is being tested by an Iranian regime determined to survive at any cost'

COLUMN. The resilience shown by Tehran and the spread of conflict across the Middle East have prevented the US president from declaring victory as quickly and triumphantly as he had hoped, writes Le ...

'There is so much potential risk in the Persian Gulf for environmental damage'

Doug Weir, director of the Conflict and Environment Observatory, outlines the risks facing populations and ecosystems as a result of the conflict involving Iran, Israel and the US.