France and Qatar have been allies since the latter declared its independence in 1971 with the termination of British rule. The two nations signed a defence pact in 1994. Under Sarkozy’s presidency, ...

Paris’s footballing ascent was driven by the metropole’s growth and plutocratisation. Some version of that story applies to ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has had his electronic tag removed after serving just over three months of a one-year ...

The Champions League final on Saturday will be an especially busy one for Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, perhaps the most multi-tasked ...

France's highest appeals court in December 2024 ordered former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to wear the tag for a year ...

Sarkozy was fitted with the tag in February instead of serving a one-year jail sentence French authorities have removed the electronic tag that former president Nicolas Sarkozy was ordered to wear ...

Qatar-owned Paris Saint-Germain have won the Champions League for the first time, the culmination of the Gulf state’s 14-year project to turn the French club into a football superpower.

Football is increasingly a plaything for autocracies and powerful elites whose goals have little to do with sport ...

France's convicted former president Nicolas Sarkozy has been freed from his ankle bracelet after having worn it for three months. The Paris public prosecutor's office confirmed to dpa on Thursday that ...

PARIS — French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau won the race to become the next leader of the country’s main conservative ...

EDITORIAL. Laurent Wauquiez, a top Macron critic and head of the right-wing party in the Assemblée Nationale, lost badly in ...