French President Emmanuel Macron will on Wednesday seek to raise more than $350 million in aid for Lebanon at a donors' conference marking the anniversary of the Beirut port blast, and send yet another warning to its squabbling political class.
France holds run-offs for regional elections on Sunday that could shift the balance between political heavyweights vying for pole position in next year's presidential race.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Belarus’s leader Alexander Lukashenko has to step down, in comments to a French weekly published on Sunday.
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has tendered his resignation after heading President Emmanuel Macron's government for three years.
France heads to the polls on Sunday for local elections, but the rapid acceleration of the coronavirus across the country has led to officials fearing the vote could see mass abstentions with some politicians demanding a last minute postponement.
Former assistant director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Professor Frank N. von Hippel says that Europe and the world are waiting for the next US president, who returns to Iran nuclear deal.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has informed his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that there is no point in talks with the United States as long as it keeps sanctions against the Islamic Republic in place.
Iran says it will continue to maintain the 2015 nuclear deal, saying the agreement is unchangeable.
French President Emmanuel Macron paved the way at a G7 summit for a diplomatic solution to the standoff between Washington and Tehran over a 2015 nuclear deal, but there was little else to show from a meeting at which allies were sharply divided; Reuters reported.
In a telephone conversation with his French counterpart on Tuesday, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said Europe has missed many opportunities to fulfil its commitments vis-a-vis JCPOA and to cooperate with Iran.
