The French ambassador to the US, recalled recently over the AUKUS row, will return to Washington next week, President Emmanuel Macron has announced after a phone call with his US counterpart Joe Biden. Biden phoned Macron on Wednesday to discuss last week’s announcement of a new security pact between the US, UK and Australia – which resulted in France losing a multi-billion-dollar shipbuilding... 

As part of the new security alliance, AUKUS, that also includes the US and UK, Australia will be supplied with technology to build a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, prompting Canberra to scrap a previous deal with France for 12 conventionally powered vessels. Affronted France recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia. France has warned that it may block talks on a planned free...