No Nigeria Leader ever visited France again until March 8, 1999, when the President-elect, Olusegun Obasanjo visited Paris. He was received by the then French President, Jacques René Chirac (29 ...

PARIS — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy vigorously denounced a “plot” he said was staged by “liars and crooks” on Thursday at a Paris trial over the alleged illegal financing of ...

In his long political career, Jean-Marie Le Pen entered surprisingly the presidential runoff in 2002 against the then French President, Jacques Chirac. French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his ...

President Droupadi Murmu and Union Home Minister Amit Shah condemned the Maoist attack on security forces in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh. They expressed condolences to the families of deceased soldiers ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen founded France's far right in the 1970s and ... political spectrum called on their supporters to back President Jacques Chirac for a second term. Chirac took 82% of the vote ...

Le Pen founded the National Front in 1972. In 2002, he reached the presidential election run-off against then-French President Jacques Chirac. He called the Nazis’use of gas chambers a mere ...

Editor’s Note: Click here to read the BBC’s look back on Carter’s life. France President Emmanuel Macron issued this statement on the former president’s passing: ”Throughout his life, Jimmy Carter has ...

France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial on Monday over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, already convicted twice in separate cases since leaving office, on Monday goes on trial charged with accepting illegal campaign financing in an alleged ...

But Sarkozy is tainted by a number of unwanted firsts: while former French president and his mentor Jacques Chirac was also convicted of graft, Sarkozy is the first French former head of state to ...