Britain, France and the United States have dispatched hundreds of military advisors to Libya to set up military bases in the country’s oil-rich east, reports say. Read the full story

A French court has convicted Panama’s former military ruler Manuel Noriega on charges of laundering drug money, sentencing him to seven years in jail. Read the full story

French public debt has soared to 80.3 percent of its gross domestic product in the first quarter of 2010, invoking the specter of a Greek-style financial breakdown. Read the full story

Belgium lawmakers are due to debate legislation that would ban full-face Islamic veils in public. If, as expected, they approve the draft law, Belgium would become the first European country to ban the wearing of the burka or niqab in public places. Read the full story

Israel may come under new pressure next month at a UN meeting on atomic weapons as the United States, Britain and France consider backing Egypt’s call for a zone in the Middle East free of nuclear arms, envoys said. Read the full story

The US authorities have been accused of presenting fabricated documents to French courts to support their demand for extradition of an Iranian engineer, as his court postpones deciding his fate for the sixth time. Read the full story

After 50 years of suspicions over the cursed bread of the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit and its people’s hallucinations, a journalist found CIA in the background of the tragedy. Read the full story

Israel has rejected the idea of foreign countries recognizing a Palestinian state, after France suggested the recognition could soon take place. Read the full story

Nicolas Sarkozy’s immigrant grandparents came close to being deported from France because they did not have university educations, it emerged today. Read the full story

The UN nuclear watchdog has expressed concern that Iran may currently be trying to develop a nuclear payload for a missile. Read the full story

The European single currency is facing an ‘inevitable break-up’ a leading French bank claimed yesterday. Strategists at Paris-based Société Générale said that any bailout of the stricken Greek economy would only provide ‘sticking plasters’ to cover the deep- seated flaws in the eurozone bloc. Read the full story

World powers discussing possible new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program should take as much time as necessary to secure China’s backing, France’s U.N. ambassador said on Thursday. Read the full story

Officials from the United States, France and Russia said Monday serious measures should be taken against Iran after the country informed the UN nuclear agency of its plans to enrich uranium to 20 percent purity for a medical research reactor in Tehran. Read the full story

A Rwandan doctor who is accused of genocide and war crimes is facing extradition from France to Kigali in another sign of improving ties between the two countries. Read the full story

Prosecutors in France say they will appeal against the acquittal of ex-PM Dominique de Villepin for smearing his one-time rival Nicolas Sarkozy. Read the full story

Former French PM Dominique de Villepin has been cleared of plotting to discredit the then interior minister and now President, Nicolas Sarkozy. He had been accused of failing to stop the Clearstream corruption inquiry into Mr Sarkozy, despite knowing the claims against his rival were false. Read the full story

Germany has pledged an extra 500 troops to the conflict in Afghanistan – hours after French president Nicolas Sarkozy said he would send no more soldiers. Read the full story

A Rwandan doctor wanted on charges of genocide and war crimes has been arrested in France, police say. Sosthene Munyemana, 45, who had been working in a hospital in Bordeaux for eight years, denies the charges. Read the full story