RTL

France's defence minister said on August 6 that "several" countries had expressed an interest in buying its Mistral-class warships, after Paris refused to deliver them to Russia because of the Ukraine crisis.

French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said Thursday that talks to secure a Greek bailout deal and prevent Athens from going bankrupt were "truly on the right track".

His comments came after late-night talks in Brussels ended without a breakthrough, but an agreement with the leaders of France and Germany to intensify efforts to strike the crucial debt deal.

Representatives of Greece's lenders were finalizing a set of proposed reforms for Greece on Tuesday, aimed at breaking an impasse in negotiations and allowing crucial rescue loans to be unlocked, even as Greece said it had submitted its own proposal.

By Ian Wishart

The euro area now views the end of June to be Greece's main deadline to unlock aid payments as hopes of a deal before April 30 fade, a European Union official said.

The head of the Eurogroup said on Tuesday that he expects Athens and its creditors to strike a new deal in the coming weeks and that it was in the eurozone's interests that Greece remains in the currency bloc.

French security forces deployed Jan. 7 in a northern town where two brothers suspected of having gunned down 12 people in an Islamist attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo abandoned their car, a police source said.
      

Seven people have been detained in the hunt for brothers suspected of gunning down 12 people in an Islamist assault on a satirical weekly, a judicial source said Jan. 8.