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An influential French journalist and editor lived a double life as a “highly rated” KGB spy for 35 years, according to L’Express magazine, his former employer.

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 15, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian government plans to buy a €23,000,000 building in Paris which was once the private mansion of the late ex-President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. The building will house the Armenian embassy in France.

The building, in the sixteenth arrondissement in Paris, once belonged to French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

Robert Badinter, who has died aged 95, was the Minister of Justice who in 1981 secured the abolition of France’s death penalty – having campaigned for the reform since witnessing a criminal he had defended being guillotined nine years before.

The centre-right French l'Express magazine this week disclosed that its former director, Philippe Grumbach, served as a KGB agent from 1946 to 1981. But he may not have been the only one.

Few events in our lifetime are as shrouded in myth and conspiracy as the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Forty-five years later, however, we now have a much clearer picture of the dramatic events that played out on the streets of Tehran before a worldwide television audience.

PARIS -Robert Badinter, a former Justice minister best known for abolishing the guillotine in France in 1981, died on Friday at age 95.... -February 09, 2024 at 06:21 am EST - MarketScreener

John Bruton, who has died aged 76, was Fine Gael prime minister of the Irish Republic from 1994 to 1997, as peace in the North remained frustratingly out of reach. Apparently in sight when Bruton took office, it would only be achieved on Good Friday 1998 under his Fianna Fail successor, Bertie Ahern.

France can be a new destination now for Indian students to take higher studies By Girish Linganna As a fallout of French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to India as the Chief Guest at the country’s 75th Republic Day celebrations on January 26 this year, India and France have agreed to bolster their collaboration in the

Few films bring together so many errors of the 20th century as the adult classic starring Sylvia Kristel that after half a century has become more like a social time capsule than a redeemable movie