Paris - The liberation of Franco-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt was the result of long and complex negotiations, and not a spectacular "Hollywood" ploy, the French online news daily MediaPa

Cannes, France- Europe should take complete control of migration into and out of the continent, working with the rest of the world to end illegal migration and manage legal flows, EU justice ministers said Monday at the opening of an informal meeting.
"We are not turning Europe into a bunker, but we are steering migrant flows in the world," German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said ahead of talks with EU counterparts in the southern French beach resort of Cannes.
"We cannot leave all these questions of migrant flows in disorder, we have to organize (them)," EU Justice Commissioner Jacques Barrot said.

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Brest, France- The 95th edition of the Tour de France got underway on Saturday, with a regular stage and no short prologue for the first time in 42 years, and also without the defending champion.

The 180 riders from 20 teams started the three-week action over 197.5 kilometres from Brest to Plumelec. The Tour features two time trials and five mountain stages before it ends on July 27 on the Champs Elysees in Paris. There will be two rest days as well.

Paris - Europe is playing an ineffectual double game with Russia and must cease if it wants to better diversify its energy sources, the former head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Claude

Paris, July 4 : Earth observation satellites have provided vital information to relief workers in Myanmar throughout a particularly long crisis response window following the devastating Cyclone Nar