ISTANBUL (AA) – Eleven nongovernmental organizations have urged France to enforce an International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense chief Yoav Gallant. The NGOs, including the Ligue de Droit de l’homme (LDH) and the French Palestinian Solidarity Associatio...
Paris, France — AFP Frenchman Louis Arnaud has returned to Paris after his release from a more than 20-month prison stay in Iran. Activists and some Western governments, including France, accuse Iran of exercising a strategy of taking foreign nationals as “hostages” to pursue their interests. Arnaud was held in Iran in Septem...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP France’s top diplomat on Sunday urged de-escalation between Israel and the Hezbollah movement during his second visit to Lebanon since cross-border tensions flared alongside the Gaza war. Israel and Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group have exchanged near-daily fire since Israel’s war on Gaza bega...
CAIRO (AA) – Egypt has called for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and reiterated its rejection of the forced displacement of Palestinians from the enclave. The Egyptian call came following talks in Cairo between Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his French counterpart Stephane Sejourne. “Egypt reiterates its rejection of the forced displacemen...
