A court in Benin on Thursday sentenced two former allies of President Patrice Talon to 20 years in jail on charges of "conspiring against the authority of the state".

An estimated 80 per cent of the Louvre's 9 million yearly visitors come for the Mona Lisa. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The United Arab Emirates has received its first Rafale fighter jet under a deal with France amid ongoing US-French ...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has arrived in Congo's capital Kinshasa, an official at the presidency said on ...

Brits could soon pay more to enter the Louvre to see Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting, as French president Emmanuel ...

Sharaa, better known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, was declared Syria's head of state for a transitional phase ...

France's Foreign Ministry said that Congo's territorial integrity was "not negotiable" after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took the eastern city of Goma. M23 rebels said they would march "all the way to ...

H e brandished a chainsaw at campaign rallies, to signify his eagerness to clear-cut the thickets of bureaucracy and ...

A horrific storm – the worst in nearly a century – ravaged the area. It leveled homes and wrecked infrastructure. In the aftermath, authorities weren’t responding fast enough to help survivors, who ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said France should follow U.S. President Donald Trump's hardline stance toward countries unwilling to receive deportees, citing his pressure on Colombia as a ...

Government spokesperson Sophie Primas replied saying that 'everybody must do their bit,' although she conceded that she ...

More than 300 homeless African immigrants are camping out in the Gaîté Lyrique, waiting for officials to rule on whether they ...