France on Wednesday insisted that the building of high-tech Airbus A400M military transport planes must go ahead but Germany looked unwilling to plough ...
France insisted on Wednesday that the European EADS group must complete the Airbus A400M military transport plane project, after a report that it ...
France has offered to train 3,000 Somali security forces as part of a European Union mission to combat high-seas piracy and restore stability to Somalia, the defence ministry said Friday. Defence Minister Herve Morin made the offer in a letter sent earlier ...
French Defense Minister Herve Morin, left, talks with Canadian veteran Okill Stuart after Stuart was awarded with the Legion of Honor medal by Morin during a collective ceremony at the Invalides building in Paris, Friday June 5, 2009. Stuart took part to ...
Brazilian air force planes scouring the Atlantic for a missing Air France jet that went down in a fierce storm with 228 people on board found floating aircraft debris, a spokesman said on Tuesday. "The search is continuing because it's very little ...
Search teams hunting an Air France plane that vanished with 228 people on board were scouring remote Atlantic waters Tuesday with scant hope of finding survivors and few clues to explain the crash. As investigators puzzled over a series of error messages ...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy shakes hand with veterans, during a ceremony to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany, in Sainte Maxime, Southern France, Friday May 8, 2009. Visible at left are French prime minister Francois Fillon and ...
French defense minister: 8 EU countries volunteer for possible maritime patrols off Somalia Eight European Union countries offered Wednesday to create a maritime security force aimed to fight piracy off Somalia, the French defense minister said — a move that could give ...
French defense minister says most of Europe does not invest sufficiently in security A shortage of international troops in Afghanistan reflects insufficient defense spending across most of Europe, French Defense Minister Herve Morin said Wednesday during a visit to Australia. Morin echoed ...
France will give Australia access to a military base in New Caledonia as the European power makes the territory its major station in the troubled South Pacific, Defence Minister Herve Morin said Wednesday. Morin said France would shift its military resources to ...
The US Navy on Sunday dramatically ended a high-seas standoff with Somali pirates, rescuing a US captain held hostage on a lifeboat for five days and killing three of his four captors. "At approximately 7:19 pm (1619 GMT) US naval forces rescued ...
Pirates holding a US sea captain hostage on a lifeboat near Somalia could be preparing to transfer him to another ship Sunday as a leading US newspaper reported that talks aimed at freeing him had collapsed. The New York Times reported that ...
