French President François Hollande has hailed the “exceptional life” of Stéphane Hessel, the former resistance fighter and diplomat who summoned today’s youth to ...
The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights has just published a report which highlights how the Vietnamese government is criminalising bloggers and netizens who are "too vocal" about civil ...
Today marks 40 years since Vietnam's communist forces, the South Vietnamese regime and the United States signed the Paris Peace Accords to end decades of warfare.
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 ...
