Bastille Day is just around the corner, and French president Nicolas Sarkozy is looking to make his country's national holiday a defining moment in its relations with the rest of the world. He has ...

DIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam on Tuesday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu in which the French colonial army was defeated by Vietnamese troops, marking the end of ...

Ambulance convoys rolled from Hanoi’s military airfield to the French army’s De Lanessan Hospital. From their blood-smeared stretchers and crisp, starch-white beds, the wounded told the hour-by-hour ...

May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country "was born here" as he led commemorations in France on Sunday for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The battle, which started on ...

French police clashed with black-clad anarchists in Paris and other big cities during trade union-organized protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s increase in the retirement age, as workers ...

RAROTONGA – In a far flung corner of the South Pacific a secessionist movement is stirring with its protagonists preparing for a major battle looming half a world away. And if Oscar Manutahi Temaru ...

In the fall of 2022, the then-head of the French Navy, Adm. Pierre Vandier, declared that the French Navy (Marine Nationale) would celebrate just two specific historic events each year. One took place ...

SMARDAN, RomaniaSMARDAN, Romania — Around 600 French soldiers deployed as part of a NATO battlegroup in Romania held a combat exercise on Wednesday to test the 30-nation military alliance’s readiness ...