Chinese company's deal to buy historic French football club FC Sochaux could be completed in May, according to a report on Thursday.
The relatives of the Australian victims of the Germanwings disaster said they will visit the crash site in the French Alps on Monday to pay their final respects.
An Airbus 320 plane of German budget airline Germanwings with 150 people on board crashed in southern France on Tuesday while en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. No survivors were expected.
At least 10 people were killed Monday afternoon when two helicopters crashed in midair in Argentina's northwest province of La Rioja, local media reported.
Visits by foreign delegations to Syria recently could indicate that the West is willing to break, even on a low profile, the isolation against the country since the war there broke out nearly four years ago, according to local political analysts.
French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday headed an emergency cabinet meeting ahead of parliamentary vote on a controversial economic bill likely to pass by a narrow majority.
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are due in Kiev in a new attempt to resolve peacefully the Ukrainian crisis amid rising tensions in the region, Hollande told reporters on Thursday.
Thousands of people rallied in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Sunday against a French magazine for publishing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad and urged the United Nations to declare blasphemy as a crime.
Dozens of Palestinians belonging to a radical Salafi group demonstrated in Gaza on Monday against the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo cartoons satirical of Prophet Muhammad of Islam.
French are almost equally divided on whether to have limited freedom of expression after the deadly attack at the headquarters of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo nearly two weeks ago.
Israeli leaders and multitude of mourners gathered Tuesday with the families of four Jewish victims of last week's terror attack on a Paris kosher supermarket for a solemn funeral ceremony at a Jerusalem cemetery.
France's national security alert system "Vigipirat" has been set at the highest level against possible terrror attacks since last week's shooting sprees in Paris, said French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Monday.
French prosecutors on Monday launched investigations on French controversial comedian Dieudonne for "inciting terrorism" after he posted a Facebook comment that could be interpreted as a sympathising message to one of last week' s shooters in Paris.
Eighty-one percent of the French said they are ready to mobilize to honor the 12 victims of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack, a survey showed on Saturday.
Millions of people and dozens of world leaders marched together through Paris Sunday to show their solidarity after three separate terrorist attacks in the French capital that had killed 17 people.
A massive march commenced Sunday afternoon in Paris with the participation of French President Francois Hollande and leaders from dozens of foreign countries, according to Xinhua journalists at Square of the Republique.
At least 12 people were killed when two masked and armed men on Wednesday stormed into the headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, known for mocking radical Islamists, in Paris.
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