One of the last surviving leading members of the French resistance to Nazi rule has died, aged 97. Raymond Aubrac's escape from German hands was a theme in two films. After the war he ...
A retired French colonel killed himself at a memorial to the war in South East Asia, in protest against what he called official indifference to the treatment of the Hmong minority, French police ...
A top Khmer Rouge leader on trial at Cambodia's war crimes tribunal was on Tuesday confronted with dramatic footage in which he defends the regime's bloody purges and calls the victims ...
France is to honour soldiers killed in colonial wars alongside the victims of the first and second world wars in a US-style Memorial Day, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced during ...
Biology teacher Alexis Jenni on Wednesday won France's top literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for his first novel L'art francais de la guerre (The French Art of War).
At least 16 people have died in several days of heavy rain and storms in northern Vietnam. Twelve were struck by lightning while working in rice fields, authorities said Sunday.
