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PARIS, France (AFP) — A French government spokesman on Wednesday accused US President Donald Trump of a lack of “common decency” for attacking his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Twitter on the third anniversary of a jihadist massacre in Paris. Asked to react to Trump’s tweets mocking Macron’s low poll numbers and lashing his defense proposals, spokesman Benjamin Griveaux told reporters: “Yesterday was November 13 when we commemorate the murder of 130 citizens three years […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Europe should not spend higher defense budgets on US-made weapons, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview due to air Sunday, after a defense row with President Donald Trump. One of dozens of world leaders attending World War I commemorations in France this weekend, Trump tweeted after landing in Paris that Macron’s call for a “real European army” was “insulting”. In an interview recorded on Saturday with CNN after talks […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump will meet on Saturday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris on the sidelines of World War I commemoration ceremonies. The two leaders were to discuss notably “the situation in Syria” and “the threat posed by Iran,” a White House official said Wednesday on condition of anonymity. The tete-a-tete is the only bilateral meeting slated for Trump’s Paris trip, according to the official. The US […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — France is ready to back “international sanctions” against those responsible for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Elysee Palace said after President Emmanuel Macron spoke by telephone to King Salman Wednesday. The French president “informed (King Salman) of his profound indignation at the crime and demanded that all possible light be shone on the circumstances that led to this drama”, his office said in a statement. Saudi Foreign Minister […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that Iran should be allowed to keep selling oil and urged dialogue as he rejected a US push to isolate the clerical regime. Speaking to reporters after addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Macron said that Iranian sales would bring down the price of oil — a professed concern of US President Donald Trump. “It would be good for the price of oil […]
by Hademine Ould Sadi © Agence France-Presse NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron joined African leaders gathered in the Mauritanian capital on the final evening of a summit overshadowed by security issues after jihadist rebels hammered two fragile Sahel states in successive attacks. Macron held separate talks with the leaders of a five-nation African anti-terror unit backed by France to discuss financial and security hurdles the “G5 Sahel” force faces. Five separate attacks […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday likened rising nationalism and anti-migrant sentiment in Europe to “leprosy”. On a visit to Brittany three days before a meeting of European leaders to try to resolve the continent’s migrant crisis, Macron urged the French not to give into anti-EU sentiment. “I’m saying to you in the gravest terms: Many hate it (Europe) but they have hated it for a long time, and now you […]
AACHEN, Germany (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron called Thursday for “de-escalation” between Israel and Iran after the Israeli army said it struck Iranian targets in Syria following rocket fire it blamed on Tehran. “He calls for a de-escalation,” the presidency said in a statement, adding that Macron would discuss the issue with Angela Merkel when he meets with the German chancellor in Aachen, western Germany, later in the day. Israel’s army said Thursday it had […]
by Nadeje Puljak Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) –Depicting the object of their ire as Napoleon, Dracula, Jupiter, a banker-king and Margaret Thatcher, tens of thousands marched through central Paris on Saturday to protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s sweeping reforms, a year after he took office. Some 2,000 security forces including riot police were deployed just in case a generally good-natured rally went the same way as May Day protests hijacked by anarchists. Marchers […]
by Andrew Beatty Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron called for a “new” deal with Iran Tuesday, looking beyond divisions over a landmark nuclear accord that now hangs in the balance. Trump pilloried a three-year-old agreement designed to curb Iran’s nuclear program as “insane” and “ridiculous,” despite European pleas for him not to walk away from the accord. Instead, Trump eyed a “grand bargain” […]
by Andrew BEATTY Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday kicked off a pomp-filled three-day state visit to the US at the White House — a test of whether his studied bonhomie with President Donald Trump can save the Iran nuclear deal and avoid a trans-Atlantic trade war. Before getting the full red carpet treatment at the White House — payback for wooing Trump with military parades and […]
by Francesco Fontemaggi Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron seems, as much as any world leader, to have developed a rapport with his American counterpart Donald Trump. But will their apparent bond help European capitals in their struggle to save the Iran nuclear deal from Trump’s wrath? The idea will be tested Monday when the young French leader begins a state visit in Washington, and European diplomats have a […]
