French nuclear blasts in Algeria, which started more than 60 years ago, still have a poisonous impact, reports

So, what is the INF Treaty? And will its collapse lead to an increase of global nuclear tensions that marked the Cold War?

Along with the rise of anti-Semitism in Muslim and Arab communities, there’s growing hostility to France’s Muslims within the Jewish community, which draws its source in the defense of Israel.

With 80 votes in favor, zero against and zero abstentions, the plenary session approved the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons making Mexico the fourth country to join that mechanism.

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said at the UN last week "Quite a high number of countries are actually interested in saying we have to break the deadlock that has been on this issue for so many years."

The annual report by the experts who monitor sanctions and the conflict in Yemen, seen by Reuters on Saturday, investigated 10 coalition air strikes between March and October that killed at least 292 civilians, including some 100 women and children.

France aims to scale back its military presence in Central African Republic by the end of the year, its defense minister said in a French media interview.

We urge the the EU3+3 countries the UK, Germany and France and the US, China and Russia and Iran to reach agreement on a comprehensive nuclear deal by the 24 November deadline.

United Nations honors Francois Hollande for ‘peace and stability’ in Africa as fighting continues in Mali The United Nations will give one of its highest honors for peace to the president of France, citing his decision to send ground troops into Mali to push back an encroaching Islamic militant movement. For more on this story, visit: French President to Receive ...

Britain and France are spearheading a new peace proposal for the Middle East that could put the Israel’s leaders on the defensive by pushing them to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians within a year, Israeli officials reportedly said on Sunday. The initiative is expected to be tabled by March following the formation of a new Israeli government after next ...

The vote is largely symbolic, the outcome nearly assured: The Palestinians and Israelis are closely watching the evolving positions of a few key countries in Thursday’s U.N. General Assembly resolution to raise the Palestinians’ status from a U.N. observer to a nonmember observer state. The measure only requires a majority and is all but certain to pass. The United States ...