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French President Emmanuel Macron said his country was willing to engage in a “shooting war” with the U.S. earlier this year, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Macron made the decision earlier this year after American forces carried out a precision strike in Venezuela that led to the arrest of former dictator Nicolas Maduro. The French president reportedly made comments about fighting Americans over Greenland, the desolate Danish island that could prove crucial to keeping non-NATO powers out of the North Atlantic. With President Donald Trump expressing his desire to acquire the island as...

PARIS (AP) -- President Jacques Chirac on Tuesday called on troops to be ready for deployment in case of hostilities, in the clearest suggestion so far that France would participate in military move against Iraq. "To be prepared is at the heart of the soldier's job," Chirac said during a New Year's address to the armed forces. "Particularly, we have to be attentive to the way in which United Nations Security Council resolution 1441 is applied by Iraq." Chirac said there was reason to believe that French forces will continue to be needed in certain "operational theaters," a reference to...