US Middle East envoy George Mitchell will hold talks with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner in Paris on Saturday, a spokesman said, amid tensions over Israel's move to build settler homes. Mitchell has delayed a scheduled visit to Israel and the West Bank amid US anger over Israeli building plans for east Jerusalem, which were announced as indirect Isareli-Palestinian ...

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Friday criticised excessive bank profits following the global slump and said tougher financial regulations would be the key issue at this year's G20 summit. "Look at the profit of the banking sector this year following the crisis: this is unacceptable. We must be strongly determined to balance this within the G20," Kouchner said ...

A French aid worker kidnapped in Darfur five months ago was freed Thursday, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the French government said. Gauthier Lefevre was freed close to al-Geneina, the West Darfur capital, and was in good health, the ICRC said. He was ...

France wants to wait for a scientific report on bluefin tuna due next year before the world community bans trade in the fish, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in a Japanese interview. The French fishing industry has backed Japan in opposing the proposed ban, which is supported by the European Union and the United States at ongoing talks of the ...