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Putin to Join More than 100 Leaders at Paris Climate Talks
More than 100 world leaders will attend the upcoming U.N. climate conference in Paris, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, France’s foreign minister said Sunday during a three-day ministerial meeting in the capital to prepare the negotiations.
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that Putin has accepted an invitation to attend the conference in Paris. He will be among the speakers on the...
TPP Begins to Unravel as Obama Launches Final Push For Votes
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade package is beginning to unravel, with more prominent voices slamming President Obama and the Republican leadership over the secretive deal that threatens to cost American jobs and hand big corporations new powers that would violate national sovereignty.
House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Rules Committee chairman Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) refused...
France urges end to flow of money to ISIL
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has called for an end to the flow of money to the terrorist ISIL group operating in Iraq and Syria.
Fabius made the remarks during a joint press briefing with his Iraqi counterpart, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, in the French capital, Paris, on Monday.
Fabius said many of the participants at the Paris conference spoke of the need to sever ISIL’s access to money.
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EU to partially lift Iran sanctions in December
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says the European Union will likely lift some of the sanctions imposed against Iran in December following a deal between Tehran and the west.
Fabius said on Monday that EU foreign ministers would meet in a few weeks to present a proposal to partially lift some sanctions imposed by the bloc against Iran as agreed in the deal...
France: US, UK providing support for Mali intervention
Armed men patrol the streets of a city in northern Mali.
France’s foreign minister says the US and Britain are providing support for the French-led military intervention in Mali amid clashes in the West African country.
Laurent Fabius made the announcement on Sunday, saying “We have the support of the Americans for communications and transport.”
The minister added that Britain, Denmark,...