France’s far-right Front National has upset Algeria, a former French colony, in its latest election poster denouncing “Islamism” and featuring a map of France decked in the North African country’s national flag. French far-right party the Front National (FN) has revealed its latest election poster – a map of France decked in Algerian national colours, covered with minarets and featuring... 

Dealing Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates a diplomatic slap, France announced Monday it will sell at least one amphibious assault warship to Russia. The sale, the first by a NATO member to Russia, comes despite objections from U.S. and other NATO members and was disclosed while Mr. Gates was visiting Paris. The French sale will help Moscow to begin modernizing its aging armed forces at a time when... 

Police in France have arrested Sosthene Munyemana, a Rwandan doctor wanted for genocide and war crimes. 45-year-old Dr Munyemana has been employed in a hospital in Bordeaux for the last eight years but he has been arrested on an extradition warrant from Rwanda. France and Rwanda have only recently restored diplomatic links between the two countries. According to AFP, France had earlier on in 2008... 

The great Islamic culture that all Europeans should try to copy/emulate A strictly secular European heavyweight, France is seeking to adopt the Islamic financial system just as a prelude to becoming a European center for Islamic economy, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported Saturday. Although no tangible moves have been made in this respect, the French government is determined to enact laws giving Islamic... 

Firemen were attacked by rioters when they tried to put out the flames The Interior Ministry says police detained nearly 400 people in France overnight — many of them linked to car-burnings that often accompany New Year’s revelry. The ministry says 398 people were taken into police custody — nearly twice the figure of a year ago — but the final count on the number of torched... 

Only 10 percent of French youths read a newspaper daily. This may be the era of Twitter and blogs, but the French government won’t give up on the printed press. In fact, it is stepping in to bail out the print-news industry in an unusual way. In an attempt to get young people to read the printed stuff again, the Sarkozy government this fall started giving every 18-to-24-year-old a one-year subscription... 

For decades, the French considered it taboo to question whether immigration and foreign influences were diluting France’s social and cultural character. Indeed, the topic was considered so toxic that no one in France besides extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen would even take it up in public. But times have changed. Twenty years after Le Pen’s National Front Party (FN) became a political... 

French youths burned 317 cars and wounded 13 police officers overnight during the now traditional bout of street violence on the eve of the Bastille Day national holiday, police said Tuesday. As French troops and their guests of honour from the Indian army made last minute preparations for the14 July parade on the Champs Elysees in Paris, the suburbs of major cities were contemplating another clean-up... 

The fallout from a custody row over Michael Jackson’s three children intensified today after fresh claims that neither Jackson nor ex-wife Debbie Rowe are the biological parents of any of the children. Jackson also never filed any papers to formally adopt any of the children, according to U.S. media reports today. Rumours have long circulated about the true parentage of Prince Michael, 12,... 

The Islamic burka is “not welcome” in France because it is not a symbol of religion but a sign of subservience for women, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday. “The burka is not a sign of religion, it is a sign of subservience,” he told lawmakers. “It will not be welcome on the territory of the French republic.” A group of French lawmakers has been calling for... 

President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government is to consider banning the burka and other Islamic clothing which French MPs claim is degrading to women. In a move that sparked fierce debate, a group of parliamentarians called for an inquiry into the wearing of the head-to-toe Islamic veil in France and whether Muslim women who cover themselves completely in public constitute an assault on French secularism... 

France’s highest court has inflicted an embarrassing blow to President Sarkozy by cutting the heart out of a law that was supposed to put France in the forefront of the fight against piracy on the internet. The Constitutional Council declared access to the internet to be a basic human right, directly opposing the key points of Mr Sarkozy’s law, passed in April, which created the first internet... 

The French National Front sent 3 MEPs to Brussels, its one more than 2004, France had 2 before. The names are: Jean Marie Le Pen, Marine Le Pen and Bruno Gollnisch. In UK: 2 MEPs from the BNP, and 12 confirmed MEPs from UKIP or more. Despite the typical bashing of the corrupted media outlets, the BNP was socially made to look “radical”, despite the fact that they are pro-English only, being... 

France inaugurated its first military base in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, underlining an ambition to help meet the strategic challenge from Iran and capture a share of the region’s rich arms market for the French defense industry. President Nicolas Sarkozy, on a one-day visit to the United Arab Emirates’ capital, formally opened a 900-foot quay allocated to the French navy in Abu Dhabi’s... 

Marine Le Pen, daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, has asked the French government to freeze its financial contribution to the European Union, she estimates that money should be given to French citizens severely impacted by the economic crisis. She will head the National Front for the European elections for the North-West region, she adds that every year France contributes 19 billions Euros and it only...