And like all former French colonies, the city was given a French ‘make-over’ when the colonisers built a modern ...

A French Catholic priest, he wrote a book recounting horrors committed by the Khmer Rouge that were responsible for the ...

Valérie André, a French aviator and parachutist who became the first woman to become a general officer in France, has died.

Valérie André, a pioneering French aviator and the first woman general in France, passed away at 102. Combining her expertise in medicine and aviation, she served as a military doctor and helicopter ...

Start the year with joy and excitement at the launch of the new Maurice Lacroix watch model, AIKONNIC MOMENTS, amidst the cool late winter weather of Chiang Mai. The event took place on the evening of ...

Valerie Andre, the first French woman to be promoted to the rank of general in an armed forces career that saw her deployed as a doctor, parachutist and helicopter pilot died on Tuesday aged 102, the ...

Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time' ...

Pol Pot and his henchmen inflicted unprecedented carnage, genocide, forced labor camps, and sickness, claiming about 2 ...

He then forged the National Front in 1972 with wartime Nazi collaborators and veterans of France’s colonial disasters in Algeria and then-Indochina. In 2007, he became the oldest person to stand ...

A former paratrooper and Foreign Legionnaire who served in Indochina and Algeria, Le Pen brought the discipline and flair of his military background into his political career. Leading his ...

"As a soldier in the French army in Indochina and Algeria, as a tribune of the people in the National Assembly and the European Parliament, he always served France and defended its identity and ...

France was trying to hold onto its Southeast Asian colony, but lost the First Indochina War, leading to Vietnam’s independence in 1954. Stern said he could see things were difficult there and ...