By Brian Wagner Miami 23 July 2007 Lawyers for former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega have asked a U.S. judge to block his possible extradition to France to face money-laundering charges. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports that Noreiga is seekin...
By Anita Elash Paris 23 July 2007 The wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in Libya Monday for a second time to negotiate the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to life in prison for allegedly contaminating chi...
Grosso, Grosso, Italy's Fabio Grosso scoring in the final minutes of a second overtime in Italy's semifinal World Cup victory over Germany. Now Italy will play France. France defeated Portugal yesterday. Sunday is the World Cup Final. We are joined b...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 05 July 2007 Rwanda's foreign minister says France is refusing to try former officials on charges that they may have been complicit in the 1994 genocide because it does not want them to be associated with such a crime. Nick Wa...
By Sonja Pace Civaux, France 16 May 2007 Rising oil prices, the volatility of supplies, and need for alternative energy sources that will not add to climate change and global warming - these are issues increasingly in the public limelight, hotly deb...
By Sonja Pace Clichy-sous-Bois 04 May 2007 French voters go to the polls Sunday in a second and final round of balloting for a new president. The contenders are conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and socialist Segolene Royal. But, in many of the country's...
By Anita Elash Paris 20 April 2007 Friday is the last day of campaigning before the first round of voting in the presidential election in France. The two leading candidates, former Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Party candidate Segol...
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 23 March 2007 The spokesman for French forces in Ivory Coast says a recent decision to reorganize and reduce their troops is a reflection of the improving conditions in the country following a peace deal reached this earlier th...
By Nico Colombant Dakar 15 February 2007 French President Jacques Chirac is urging Sudan to accept more peacekeepers in its troubled Darfur region, while also pushing for a meeting between Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and other African leaders at...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 05 February 2007 More than half of blacks living in France say they face racial discrimination, according to the first-ever survey on the country's black population. The findings are troubling for a country that has long prided i...