Left-wing ex-Education Minister Benoit Hamon and ex-PM Manuel Valls will contest a run-off to become the Socialist candidate in France’s presidential election in April. It was clear the pair would advance from a field of seven after half the votes were counted in Sunday’s primary. The run-off will be held ...
Director of the French coordination of counter-terrorism unit (UCLAT), Loic Garnier, said that three thousand Europeans, including about 700 French, joined the ranks of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist organization operating in Iraq and Syria. “According to reports, the number of French in that ...
