Francois Hollande News

While Europe drowns in its problems, its leaders exacerbate them. In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron has been promising a destabilizing referendum on the country's membership in the European Union.

All in the family: Vladimir Putin, David Cameron and Barack Obama during the meeting of world leaders.

Qatar is likely to launch an international tender to renew its fleet of ageing fighter jets soon and is interested in France's Rafale, a French official said, while sources said it was also looking at the BAE Systems-backed Eurofighter Typhoon.

President Barack Obama listens to French President Francois Hollande during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

Cast your mind back, if you can, to the summer of 1983. Franois Mitterrand was President of France and the French Socialist Party led a government containing four Communist Party ministers.

A feeling in France that the European Union no longer works in its interest is fuelling tensions between Paris and Brussels and adding pressure on President Francois Hollande to be more assertive in Europe.

Russia, the U.S. and France, the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group that deals with the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, have expressed deep regret at the fact that the parties were not able to find a solution of the problem in the course of negotiations, RIA Novosti reported.

At least so far. He was hoping to get a big show of early support on a free-trade agreement with Europe , but he got some pushback .

Cameron is hosting Obama, Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta..

TRANSPARENCY NOW: President Obama said that two National Security Agency programs recently revealed through leaked secret documents were "transparent" and, in an interview with PBS's Charlie Rose broadcast last night, he dismissed concerns that the programs were vulnerable to abuse by government officials, ABC's ABBY PHILLIP reports.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will conclude his eight-day European trip unable to complete a trade agreement with the European Union, just as the opening of EU-U.S. talks raises the risk that Canada will be left out.

The United States and European Union launched negotiations on one of the world's most ambitious free-trade agreements on Monday, promising thousands of jobs and speedier growth on both sides of the Atlantic.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned that Europe will "pay the price" for arming rebels trying to topple him and rejected accusations that he's deployed chemical weapons against them as baseless.

Russia, like all leading industrial governments, has a responsibility to push opposed factions in Syria's civil war to the negotiating table as rapidly as possible and not British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, stands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a press conference at 10 Downing Street in London, Sunday June 16, 2013.

In 1973, Frenchman Francois Gernelle built the world's first micro-computer. In the decades after, France looked on as IBM and Apple spawned a multi-trillion dollar industry around it.

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A violent attack on six Chinese students in southwestern France has provoked widespread outrage and safety concerns in China as well as the Chinese community in France.

Richard was a top aide in the finance ministry under former president Nicolas Sarkozy when his government in 2008 awarded tycoon Bernard Tapie 285 million euros in damages in a legal dispute with defunct bank Credit Lyonnais.

French President Francois Hollande on Sunday ruled out an early sale of any state holdings in France Telecom or utility GDF Suez , saying market valuations were too low.

Washington, June 16: US President Barack Obama has spoken over the telephone about Syria with leaders from Britain, France, Italy and Germany ahead of the upcoming G-8 summit, the White House said.