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France’s minority government is expected to survive a no-confidence vote on Tuesday in a test for conservative Prime Minister ...

France has become the eighth nation, and the fifth in the past two years, to rise to the top of Hanoi’s diplomatic hierarchy.

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Thousands of people gathered in Paris for a tribute to those killed in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas against Israel and stand ...