Here’s a look at the life of Angela Merkel, former chancellor of Germany. Personal Birth date: July 17, 1954 Birth place: Hamburg, Germany Birth name: Angela Dorothea Kasner Father: Horst Kasner, a ...

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A French court on Tuesday sentenced paparazzi queen Mimi Marchand to an 18-month suspended prison sentence for blackmailing a ...

By Sebastian Shukla and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Berlin and Paris (CNN) — The clasped hands of French and German leaders have long embodied the spirit of European unity – most famously in 1984, when ...

The Dutch set of the planet in the quarry at Szentmargitbánya ...

Wilder than a Coen Brothers movie, the sprawling true story behind Netflix’s new documentary mini-series “Cocaine Air: Smugglers” has captivated French people for over a decade, when two former French ...

As Israel pounds nuclear sites in Iran with air strikes, one target -- the Fordow enrichment site that lies deep underground ...

Israel has targeted the secretive Fordow facility in recent days but, according to the IAEA, so far it has either been ...

Nicolas Sarkozy Goes on Trial on Charges of Illegal Campaign Funding From Libya The former French president has faced several legal cases since leaving office, but accusations that he received ...

PARIS (AFP) — Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon was on Tuesday given a four-year suspended prison sentence over a ...

Sarkozy, 70, had been wearing an electronic ankle tag until last month after France's highest appeals court, last December, upheld his conviction of trying to illegally secure favors from a judge.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been stripped of his Legion of Honour -- the country's highest distinction -- ...