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France's conservative interior minister in charge of immigration policy has sparked controversy by claiming some civilisations are "superior" to others.

PARIS (Reuters) - France's far right accused the big two parties Sunday of "muzzling democracy" by trying to exclude its candidate from the presidential election. Despite strong public support, National Front chief Marine Le Pen said last week she was still 150 signatures short of the 500 from elected local officials, such as mayors, that she required in order to stand. National Front Vice ...

France's finance minister said on Sunday talks were moving "relatively well" on the private sector portion of a Greek bailout, but discussions designed to bring its debt down to 120 pct of GDP ...

6 Nations favourite and defending champion get by Italy, Scotland respectively

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's backing of French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the upcoming presidential vote has riled his socialist rival Francois Hollande's camp, which warned her to exercise restraint, a German newspaper reported on Saturday. It is unusual for German leaders to intervene in elections abroad. Merkel's backing for Sarkozy was announced in January by her ...

MONTPELLIER, France (AP) -- Results Saturday from the Open Sud de France, a ?450,000 ($592,000) ATP event on indoor hard courts at Park and Suites Arena (seedings in parentheses): Singles Semifinals Gael Monfils (3), France, def. Gilles Simon (2), France, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4. Tomas Berdych (1), Czech Republic, def. Philipp Kohlschreiber (7), Germany, 6-3, 6-4.

A renegade Afghan soldier who shot dead four French troops paid a bribe to rejoin his country's army after deserting, the US news website McClatchy said on Saturday.

PARIS (Reuters) - France raised the pressure on Russia on Saturday by warning that countries that blocked a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria after activists said more than 200 people were killed in Homs would bear a "heavy responsibility in history." The comments came after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a draft U.N. resolution on Syria was "not hopeless," but needed ...

PARIS, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- French survivors from the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster off the Italian coast say they want $14,455 each in compensation or they'll sue the cruise line.

World Cup finalists France will bid to get their Six Nations campaign off with a resounding bang when they host Italy at the Stade de France on Saturday.