French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laurent Fabius traveled here on Wednesday to present the conclusions of COP21, over which he presided at the end of 2015, to the European Parliament meeting for its plenary session. He appealed for speedy ratification of the "Paris Agreement."
Stunned by deadly terrorist attacks twice last year, France has promised to improve surveillance and to further boost coordination between intelligence services at home and abroad in order to prevent new assaults and to ease growing security concerns, a statement issued by presidency office, Elysee said on Thursday.
Austrian police have arrested two suspects with potential links to the Paris terror attacks at a refugee shelter in Salzburg, the prosecutor's office there revealed on Wednesday.
The gathering of world leaders in Paris to negotiate ways to combat climate change should provide "a political impulse" to reach a "binding" and "ambitious" deal, French President Francois Hollande said on Sunday.
French President Francois Hollande will meet his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama in Washington on Nov. 26, the presidential Elysee Palace says on Tuesday, adding he will also meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Nov. 26 in Moscow.
"The terrorists will never destroy the Republic, because it is the Republic that will destroy them," French President Francois Hollande boldly stated Monday in his speech addressed to the two chambers of parliament here.
The Pentagon announced on Monday the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier had left for the Middle East in the latest deployment to assist the counterterrorism campaign in the region.
(THE ASAHI SHIMBUN) Japan is strengthening its anti-terrorist measures in the aftermath of the string of Nov. 13 terrorist attacks across Paris that left more than 120 people dead and hundreds injured.
French military jets Sunday bombarded a stronghold of the Islamic State (IS) in Raqqa, Syria, French Defence ministry said.
The Paris terror attacks that killed 132 people and injured 349 others were "planned in Belgium, " local media reported Sunday quoting France's interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
French police identified two nationals who blew themselves up in the coordinated attacks that hit Paris popular venues on Friday night, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said on Sunday.
The Chinese embassy in Paris issued a security alert late Friday after multiple bombing and gun attacks killed at least 140 people earlier in the day here.
The international community has strongly condemned the Paris attacks on Friday that has reportedly killed over 100 people.
The panel of The Business Times Wine Challenge 2015 - CEOs' Choice, who include chief judge Lim Hwee Peng (front row, far left) and Les Amis wine director Timothy Goh (front row, far right).
French air strikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria would be "necessary," said French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Tuesday, adding surveillance mission over the conflict-torn Arab country would last as long as needed.
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja on Monday to begin a three-day official visit to France on the invitation of French President Francois Hollande.
French Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve called for "scrupulous respect by each country of the European Union of the Schengen rules," said a press release issued by French Interior Ministry Sunday night.
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