06/10/2011 | Argentina

Suspects in French tourists double murder case 'show psychotic behaviour'

At least two of the three suspects currently under arrest in connection to the murder of two French tourists in the Salta province last July, show signs of “psychotic, fabulist” behaviour, police authorities indicated.

03/11/2011 | Argentina

Obama praises CFK while greeting Sarkozy

Prior to the lunch inaugurating the G20 summit in Cannes, during an informal chat, US President Barack Obama, recommended that his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, follow the example set by Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who was re-elected in a landslide win just ten days ago.

08/02/2012 | Argentina

Video showing how French photographer was attacked

Buenos Aires City cameras taped how the French photographer was attacked and how the attacker escaped in the Retiro neighbourhood.

23/08/2011 | Argentina

Two men charged of cover-up in French tourists crime case

Two men were charged of cover-up in the case that investigates the crime of the two French tourists in Salta province, the judicial spokesman Marcelo Báez reported.

27/08/2011 | Argentina

Salta murder case: three people released from custody

Three people previously arrested in connection to the double-murder in Salta in July were released today. María Fernanda Cañizares, Walter Lasi and Raúl Sarmiento were set free last night by the judge in charge of the case, Martín Pérez, court sources informed.

11/09/2011 | Argentina

CFK travels to France to meet with Sarkozy

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner travelled to France accompanied by Foreign Minister, Héctor Timerman. The official visit will begin its planned activities on Monday. The President is to meet with her French pair, Nicolas Sarkozy, on Wednesday, news sources informed.

09/08/2011 | Argentina

Salta double murder case: DNA samples of six suspects to be analyzed

The genetic samples extracted from the six suspects arrested in connection to the murder of two French tourists in the Quebrada de San Lorenzo, in Salta, were submitted to the School of Biochemistry at the University of Buenos Aires.

12/08/2011 | Argentina

Experts confirm when the French tourists were killed

Expert's released a report on the bodies of the French tourists Cassandre Bouvier and Houria Moumni that indicated both of them were killed 13 or 14 days before they were found, last July 29 in the zone of El Mirador, Salta province.

17/08/2011 | Argentina

French woman murdered in Salta was raped by two men, test results suggest

According to judicial sources, 29-year old Cassandre Bouvier, one of the two French tourists murdered in the Salta province last month, was raped by at least two people before she was murdered.

04/08/2011 | Argentina

Salta: French tourists' family members visit crime scene

The family members of the French tourists who were murdered in Salta, were taken to the scene where the bodies were found, accompanied by the judge in charge of the case.

05/08/2011 | Argentina

Salta killings: Family members travel to BA to receive caskets

The parents of Hournia Moumni and Cassandre Bouvier left Salta province Friday morning and arrived in Buenos Aires where they received the funeral caskets of the women, sent to the capital on a separate flight. A funeral service was held last night for the victims.

06/08/2011 | Argentina

Police find weapon used in Salta murders, seven detained

The police found the weapon which was used to kill the two French tourists, Houria Moummi and Cassandre Bouvier, in Salta province, and detained other two suspects, judicial sources reported.

01/08/2011 | Argentina

Timerman tells French Foreign Minister he is 'appalled' over Salta double murder case

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman sent a letter to his French counterpart, Alain Juppé, in which he expressed being "appalled" over the killing of two French tourists in the Salta province. 

01/08/2011 | Argentina

Only suspect in Salta double murder case released due to lack of evidence

Police officials in the Salta province released a man who had been arrested a few hours before in connection to the murder of two French tourists in the Quebrada de San Lorenzo area.

02/08/2011 | Argentina

Salta: New suspect arrested over double murder

A man was arrested in connection with the double murder case in Salta, where two French tourists were killed in the area of la Quebrada San Lorenzo last Friday, a Salta official informed.

25/02/2011 | Argentina

Economist Aldo Ferrer appointed new ambassador to France

The government appointed economist Aldo Ferrer ambassador to France. The decision was confirmed by the decree 180/2011 which was signed by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, on February 22.

30/07/2011 | Argentina

Two French tourists found dead in Salta

Two female tourists on holiday in the northern province of Salta were found dead today along a private touristic trek in Quebrada de Villa San Lorenzo, police officers said. It was reported that both French women were shot dead while hiking, and that one had been raped.

31/07/2011 | Argentina

French gov't urges local authorities to solve Salta double murder case

France’s Foreign Ministry demanded that the murder of two French tourists who were found dead two days ago in the province of Salta “be solved.” Investigators in the case assure that they have found enough evidence to run a DNA test, hoping to find those responsible.

31/01/2013 | World

France backs possible UN force in Mali

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian today backed the idea of sending a United Nations peacekeeping force into Mali, saying France would play a role in any such plan.

16/01/2013 | World

French, Malian troops encircle Islamist rebels in central Mali

French ground troops deployed around the central Malian town of Niono today in a bid to halt any further advance by Islamist rebels who have seized the nearby village of Diabaly, Malian military sources said.

20/01/2013 | World

French troops advance north in Mali

French troops in armoured vehicles advanced today towards a central Malian town abandoned by Islamist rebels after days of air strikes, moving cautiously for fear of guerrilla-style counterattacks by the al Qaeda-linked fighters.

22/01/2013 | World

US begins transporting French troops, equipment to Mali

The United States has started transporting French soldiers and equipment to Mali as part of its logistical aid to French forces fighting Islamist militants in the north of the country, a US official said.

17/06/2012 | World

French Socialists win absolute parliament majority

French President Francois Hollande's Socialists won an absolute parliamentary majority, strengthening his hand as he presses Germany to support debt-laden euro zone states hit by austerity cuts and ailing banks.

08/09/2012 | World

Police start searching house of Britons shot dead in French Alps

French and British police began searching the house today of a British man shot dead in the French Alps with his wife and another woman and a state prosecutor said the man's brother would be officially questioned as part of the investigations.

29/10/2012 | World

French implant boss released from jail pending trial

The Frenchman who sparked a global health scare by selling substandard breast implants has been released from jail under court supervision pending a trial next year, a judicial source said.

23/03/2012 | World

French intelligence under fire over al Qaeda shooter

The French government was forced to reject accusations that intelligence lapses allowed a young Muslim with a violent criminal record, spotted twice in Afghanistan, to become the first al Qaeda-inspired killer to strike on its soil.

25/03/2012 | World

French gunman's brother suspected of complicity

French investigators held the brother of an al Qaeda-inspired gunman in detention on Sunday on suspicion that he was complicit in Mohamed Merah's killing of seven people, including three children at a Jewish school in Toulouse.

15/05/2012 | World

Hollande's plane hit by lightning, flight forced to return to Paris

The presidential airplane carrying newly sworn-in French President Francois Hollande had to make an emergency return to Paris this afternoon, after passing through an electrical storm while on route to Berlin. The pilot was forced to land the plane in the French capital, however the leader was not injured and took off for Germany on a separate flight, a presidential source said.

11/01/2012 | World

French journalist killed in Syria

A French journalist was among several people killed in Syria's central city of Homs on today, becoming the first Western reporter to have died in 10 months of unrest in the country.

13/01/2012 | World

France urges inquiry into journalist's death in Syria

France called today for an independent investigation into the death of a French television journalist killed in a mortar attack in Homs this week while reporting on unrest in the central Syrian city.

19/03/2012 | World

Avalanche kills five skiers in Norway

Four Swiss skiers and a French one were killed when a large avalanche in Norway's High Arctic region engulfed a group of downhill enthusiasts, Norwegian police said.

03/08/2011 | World

Row flares as pilots boycott Rio crash probe

French pilots suspended cooperation with an inquiry into the 2009 crash of an Air France jet as a dispute over the causes of the disaster opened deep wounds in France's prestigious aeronautics industry.

23/12/2011 | World

French breast implant boss wanted by Interpol

The founder of a French firm at the centre of a global breast implants scare is wanted by Costa Rica, according to a notice posted on the website of the international police agency Interpol.

26/12/2011 | World

PIP implants sold to Dutch firm under new name

Potentially dangerous breast implants made by a now-defunct French company were sold to about 1,000 Dutch women under a different name, a Dutch health official said, broadening a scandal that could already affect some 300,000 women worldwide.

08/01/2011 | World

Two French hostages killed in Niger, Gov't source

Two French hostages kidnapped in Niger have been found dead, a government source in the African country said. The pair were abducted from a bar overnight hundreds of kilometres from the lawless desert where Islamist militants, rebels and bandits flourish.

28/05/2011 | World

France's Lagarde to visit Brazil in IMF campaign

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde will visit Brazil on Monday as part of a campaign to win backing for her candidacy as head the International Monetary Fund, a source close to the minister said.

27/06/2011 | World

French banks agree to roll over Greek debt, key week for bailout

French banks have agreed to roll over holdings of Greek debt for 30 years, President Nicolas Sarkozy said, as the Greek government fought to persuade backbench rebels to back a crucial austerity plan to avert bankruptcy.

04/02/2013 | Latin America

'French Spiderman' climbs landmark Havana hotel

With hundreds of people watching from the streets below, the so-called French Spiderman, Alain Robert, scaled the landmark Havana Libre hotel today in a free climb that he said wasn't too hard.

31/05/2012 | Sports

French Open: Mónaco advances to third round

Argentine Juan Mónaco beat Czech Lukas Rosol 7-6(4), 6-0, 7-6(5) and advanced to the French Open men's singles third-round in Paris.

06/06/2012 | Sports

Nadal faces familiar foe in French Open quarterfinals

Rafa Nadal is unlikely to face the same problems Novak Djokovic had to confront against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga when the six-times French Open champion takes on Nicolas Almagro in the quarter-finals.

11/01/2013 | Sports

French motorcyclist dies during Dakar Rally in Chile

19/11/2011 | Sports

Yannick Noah slammed over call to legalise drugs in sport

Former French tennis hero Yannick Noah has been criticised by France's sports minister after saying the best way to combat doping in sport was to legalise the use of drugs.

29/05/2012 | Sports

Sharapova serves Cadantu double bagel in Paris

A merciless Maria Sharapova whizzed past unheralded Romanian Alexandra Cadantu 6-0 6-0 to book her place in the second round of the French Open.

29/05/2012 | Sports

French Open: Schwank sweeps out Karlovic

After a poor start for the Argentines at the French Open with the surprising loss of David Nalbandian, new winds are blowing for the blue and white army as Eduardo Schwank defeated Croatian Ivo Karlovic 6-4, 6-0, and 6-3, thus joining Leonardo Mayer and Horacio Zeballos, whom had also made a winning debut.

10/03/2012 | Entertainment

French comic-book artist "Moebius" dies

French comic-book artist Jean Giraud, alias "Moebius", best known in France for his gritty Wild West character "Blueberry", has died at the age of 73 after a battle with cancer, his publisher said today.

05/04/2012 | Entertainment

Claude Miller, director of "La Petite Voleuse", dies at 70

Claude Miller, a French director best known for discovering young actress Charlotte Gainsbourg in the 1985 film "La Petite Voleuse", has died at the age of 70 after a long illness, one of his production companies said.

13/12/2012 | Entertainment

Actor Depardieu puts Paris house up for sale

French actor Gerard Depardieu, accused of trying to escape the taxman by buying a house just over the border in Belgium, has put his sumptuous Parisian home up for sale.