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France will recognise a Palestinian state in September at the UN general assembly, Emmanuel Macron has said. The French president announced the decision on X on Thursday evening, saying he hoped it would bring peace to the region. Macron published a letter sent to Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, confirming France’s intention to become the first major western power to recognise a Palestinian state. “True to its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognise the State of Palestine,” Macron said. “I will make this solemn announcement at the...

French officials have expressed their dismay after a French scientist was denied entry into the United States because immigration officers found text messages containing a "personal opinion" about the Trump administration and its policies on scientific research. In a statement issued on Wednesday and sent to the AFP news agency, France's Minister of Higher Education and Research Philippe Baptiste said he had “learned with concern” that a space researcher working for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) was stopped for a random check at an unspecified US airport and expelled due to critical text messages about US President...

France has backed the International Criminal Court’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli officials, in stark contrast to British and American disapproval.

A French physicist with the European atomic research centre near Geneva was charged with terrorism offences by a Paris judge last night after investigators said that he offered to work with the North African branch of al-Qaeda. Adlène Hicheur, 32, who is of Algerian origin, was arrested last week with his younger brother after intelligence agents intercepted his alleged internet contacts with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The physicist, who works at the giant atomic collider at CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), which straddles Swiss and French territory, told the Islamic group that he was interested in committing an...

France colluded with Iraqi secret service: report LONDON (AFP) - France colluded with the Iraqi secret service to undermine a Paris conference held in April 2000 by the human rights group Indict, the Daily Telegraph reported citing documents found in the foreign ministry in Baghdad. The right-wing daily quoted a letter from the Iraqi secret service dated March 28 saying that "one of our sources" had met the deputy spokesman for the French foreign ministry "with whom he has good relations." The letter added that no French visas would be given to Iraqi opposition leaders who wanted to attend the...

Baggage handler caughtwith guns, bombs in carAlgerian, 27, employed at Paris airport where alleged 'shoe bomber' boarded Posted: December 29, 200211:07 p.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Security is high at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris after a baggage handler was found to have guns, explosives and detonators hidden in his car. Reports from France 3 and LCI television indicate the suspect is a 27-year-old Algerian man, who lives in the northern Parisian suburb of Bondy. The airport, one of Europe's busiest employing 55,000 and handling 100,000 passengers per day, is the same one where Richard Reid of Britain boarded a...

France foils possible terror attack By Elizabeth BryantUnited Press International From the International Desk Published 12/17/2002 12:43 PM PARIS, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Three men arrested in the Paris region may have been plotting a biological or chemical attack, France's Interior Minister said Tuesday. "This is not a small affair," Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told the National Assembly. "This is serious. When one finds people who have this material we do well to arrest them." Police seized empty containers, vials of suspicious-looking fluids and powders and an outfit designed for protection against chemical and biological risks, Sarkozy said, adding that...