An elite French gendarme was shot dead in France's overseas territory of French Guiana in South America while taking part in an operation against illegal gold mining, the French presidency said ...

Taubira took a particular interest in the deaths of the two soldiers, as she herself is from Guiana, a French department in South America. Some 120,000 French gendarmes were involved in a large ...

Two suspects have confessed to killing two French soldiers during an operation against illegal gold-prospecting in French Guiana last month, Brazilian police said Saturday. The two were arrested ...