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French aerospace group Safran and U.S. conglomerate General Electric have won a multibillion dollar deal to provide the motor for China's new C919 plane, Safran said on Monday.

Beijing and Paris are expected to sign a 1.5-billion-euro deal on nuclear energy today, among several other big ones, as French Prime Minister Francois Fillon meets Chinese leaders here.

French Prime Minister Francois Fillon arrived in Beijing Sunday afternoon to start his first official visit to China since he took office.

PARIS: French Prime Minister Francois Fillon left for China on Saturday afternoon for a three-day official visit.

French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Saturday relations with China is full of vigor and the two sides are expected to ink a series of economic and trade pacts during his upcoming visit to Beijing.

France deported nine Afghan migrants on a charter flight yesterday, officials said, the second such controversial expulsion to war-torn Afghanistan in as many months.

French ex-president Jacques Chirac ranked the most popular politician in the country, with a support rate as high as 78 percent, according to a poll by pollster Ifop released Tuesday.

It will be the latest in a series of expulsions of Afghans since the closing in September of the so-called jungle , a camp in Calais where manymigrants and refugees assembled, hoping to cross the Channel to Britain.

A junior French minister has told young Muslims living in France they should dress properly, find a job and stop speaking slang.

They hit a low point in December 2008 when President Nicolas Sarkozy metthe Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader whom Beijing accuses of seeking independence for the Himalayan region - - a claim he denies.

Main opposition New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras on Thursday held a series of meetings with centre-right and Christian Democrat leaders here on the sidelines of the European People's Party conference.

Some in the French government want to sell Mistral-class ships to Russia, and the decrepit Russian Navy is eager to buy.

French Prime Minister Francois Fillon asked the president of the National Assembly, the country's parliament, on Monday to send two members to Strasbourg, one from the majority and one from the opposition, to avoid "useless controversies" over the identity of the extra MEP seats created by the Lisbon Treaty.

France will not follow Switzerland's lead andban the construction of minarets as long as the towers blend in with the surroundings, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Friday.

Areva SA , the worlda s biggest reactor builder, will continue to operate in all areas of the nuclear supply chain, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said, quashing speculation that the company may be dismantled.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will arrive in Paris today aiming to strengthen ties with France by enlisting energy partners, seeking a rescue for the crippled Russian car industry and discussing a pioneering defense accord.

French carmaker Renault agreed to increase its support of AvtoVAZ on Friday, in return for a Russian government promise to inject an additional $1.7 billion into the struggling automaker.

A A A' Russian businesses and the government signed at least 25 agreements with French companies, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced Friday, proclaiming "a real breakthrough" in economic relations between the two nations.

Dubai, an oasis in the Persian Gulf, has woken up to a debt crisis of its state-owned investment flagship Dubai World, a firm known for its slogan -- "The Sun Never Sets on Dubai World." The state-owned conglomerate in the United Arab Emirates Wednesday asked for a delay in repaying some of the $60 billion it owes to creditors, causing panic and ...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin oversaw the deal with the French carmaker on his two-day trip to Paris, where he also wrapped up a host of other deals, including signing up French participation in the South Stream pipeline.