Thirty-three Haitian children adopted by French families flew into Paris Friday, airport officials told AFP, leaving behind a country shattered by the January 12 earthquake that killed thousands. The children, aged between one and six years, were met at the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy, as well as their new families ...

The UN refugee agency announced on Saturday an urgent appeal to meet the "enormous" needs of 107,000 refugees here who have fled the violence in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. "The needs are enormous. We are going to launch very soon an international appeal. We need funds, logistics, food," said Stephan Grieb, representative of the UN High Commissioner for ...

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital on Friday, said the situation in the strife-torn east must improve. Kouchner, who met Rwanda's President Paul Kagame Wednesday and meets the DR Congo leader Joseph Kabila on Friday afternoon, said "the rapprochement, understanding, dialogue" between the two leaders had "born fruits" politically. "On ...