France's foreign ministry said Monday that the reopening of its embassy in Syria was not on the table, signalling there may be no fundamental change to Paris' approach to the Syrian conflict under new president Emmanuel Macron. Citing a political source close to Macron, pan-Arab daily...

EU ministers are set Monday to give Frenchman Michel Barnier the European mandate to negotiate Britain's exit from the bloc, which he expects to start in earnest in mid-June following British elections. Barnier will lock horns with Britain's Brexit minister David Davis who has predicted "the...

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet unions on Tuesday to discuss labour reform, his office said on Sunday. Macron had said during the presidential election campaign that he intended to use executive decrees as soon as this summer to reform labour laws in a country where unemployment...

President Emmanuel Macron undertakes his first trip as commander-in-chief Friday when he meets troops fighting Islamist militants in Mali where the security situation has worsened despite French intervention more than four years ago. The Sahel, a politically fragile area whose remote desert...

Britain's ruling Conservatives are expected to outspend the opposition Labour Party on campaigning for next month's election, with many of their traditional business backers opting to stick with them despite concerns over Brexit. The Conservatives already have a strong lead in opinion polls,...

Emerging from her crushing defeat in France's presidential contest, far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Thursday she will run for a parliamentary seat in June elections and that her National Front party has "an essential role" in a new political landscape. Le Pen will run for a seat in a...

France and Germany are resisting a plan by U.S. officials for NATO to take a bigger role in the fight against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, in line with calls from President Donald Trump for the alliance to do more to combat terrorism. Many alliance members hope the plan will be announced...

Turkey's foreign minister says his country won't beg Germany to stay at the Incirlik airbase. Mevlut Cavusoglu told private NTV that Turkey opened up the airbase to Germany as part of the international coalition's operations against ISIS. "If they want to leave, that's up to them and we...

 French President Emmanuel Macron's new centrist party has stretched its lead in the polls ahead of parliamentary elections next month, new survey data showed Thursday, adding to the positive momentum for the 39-year-old leader. A survey from the Harris Interactive group showed that 32...

 Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron appointed his first government on Wednesday, naming veteran Socialist Jean-Yves Le Drian to foreign affairs and European lawmaker Sylie Goulard as defense minister. Other key figures during his campaign were given senior roles, with the...

Germany's Foreign Ministry says it has been granted consular access to a German-Turkish journalist arrested in Turkey. Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer said Wednesday that consular officials will visit reporter Deniz Yucel in an Istanbul-area prison on Thursday for a second time since his...

Germany's foreign minister Wednesday said parliament would likely vote on withdrawing troops involved in the fight against ISIS in Syria from a Turkish military base if Ankara persisted in denying German lawmakers access to the site. Turkish officials have told Reuters a visit by German...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have extended their lead over the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) to 12 percentage points, a poll showed Wednesday, almost four months before a federal election. The Forsa poll for the weekly magazine Stern and broadcaster RTL put Merkel's...

 French President Emmanuel Macron will meet EU Council President Donald Tusk in Paris Wednesday, the new leader's office said. The two will have lunch at the Elysee Palace before Macron is expected to announce his cabinet appointments. Tusk was one of the first prominent European...

French authorities Tuesday charged a suspected ISIS "scout" believed to have helped a key organizer of the 2015 Paris attacks and the perpetrator of a foiled train attack enter Europe. Prosecutors charged Bilal Chatra, a 21-year-old from Algeria, with complicity in an attempted terrorist...

German authorities charged a Syrian man who was arrested last November as he tried to travel to Denmark with planning to build a bomb and detonate it in a crowd in the capital of Copenhagen, public prosecutors said on Monday. The Syrian man came to Germany in 2015 and lived in a refugee...

A group of German lawmakers has been blocked from visiting troops stationed at Turkey's Incirlik air base, officials said on Monday, a move that could reignite a row between the NATO allies over Berlin's access to the base. The lawmakers were denied a visit to the base as it was not deemed...

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson Monday downplayed differences with EU partners over the bloc's military ambitions, saying London supported their efforts to bolster defense cooperation. Reports Friday put Brexit-bound Britain in the dock for blocking the launch of an EU military...

 Rescuers saved 484 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean on Saturday and found the bodies of seven men who had died in the attempt to get to Europe, Italy's coast guard said. More than 45,000 people have reached Italy by boat from North Africa this year, a more than 40 percent...

Emmanuel Macron becomes France's youngest ever president on Sunday, taking over from Socialist Francois Hollande in a solemn ceremony. Macron, a 39-year-old centrist, arrived at the Elysee Palace in central Paris in a motorcade and walked down the red carpet under light rain to be greeted by...