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French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu held a call with his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoigu, and expressed "France's solidarity with the victims" of the mass shooting at the Crocus City concert hall outside Moscow on March 22, Le Monde reported on April 3.
Terror is on trial in two courtrooms around the world today. nearly six years after the worst terrorist attack on french soil, the only surviving attacker is now in court and just admitted to being a soldier of the islamic state. 130 people were killed and hundreds more hurt in this series of coordinated attacks in and around paris in november of 2015, you will remember. cnn's sarah vonn yay is live at the courthouse in paris with more on this for us. sarah, what has happened in court today so far. >> reporter: the trial got under way a few hours ago. one of the big questions going into this w...
The brits. at one point de gaulle ordered all non-french nato personnel to leave ench soil. and is u.s. secretary of state at the time asked in response whether that meant he wanted the bodies of american soldiers in french cemeteries packed up and sent home as well. france eventually gave up and got back in to nato fully committed. but that's as close as anybody's come to leaving it. now that's at risk again much more acutely and a lot more besides. if it is all going to go in france, it's going to go fast. that french runoff election is two weeks from yesterday. here at home, we are at day 9...
To say whether there will be some toxic -- according to the germans, the co-pilot will have made a search online. i told you in my first discussion, as long as the official information has not been give ton me, i do not have the authority to express anything about what's being said by my colleague in dusseldorf. involuntary homicide, are we talking about -- we're still in -- an involuntary homicide, i maintain, because the public action was concern ed -- we cannot pursue anyone in particular, this having taken place on french soil.
And france's foreign minister met over a report that the nsa carried out extensive surveillance on french soil, including scooping up to 70 million digital communications in a single month. just the latest diplomatic squirmish ignited by nsa leaker edward snowden. federal prosecutors say the california security guard accused of plotting to becoming an al qaeda operative had been enlisted to train fighters. he was arrested trying to leave the country. agents say he was carrying a forged passport and a large amount of foreign currency. the state's police chief in florida saying they led to t...