#France

Tenth-seed Flavio Cobolli dropped his first set of the tournament but beat unseeded American Zachary Svajda en route to a 6-2 6-3 6-7(3) 7-6(5) on Monday to book his spot ...

French Open second round action continues on Thursday with top seed Jannik Sinner opening proceedings on Court Philippe Chatrier while women’s number one Aryna Sabalenka is also playing in ...

Norway will come under France’s nuclear umbrella, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told news agency NTB on Wednesday, as concerns grow in Europe over U.S. commitment to the ...

Iga Swiatek stayed cool in sweltering conditions while Novak Djokovic was given a stern test before reaching the third round of the French Open, but world number two Elena Rybakina ...

The French Open second round gets under way on Wednesday with a mouth-watering lineup featuring four-times champion Iga Swiatek and 24-times major winner Novak Djokovic. Second seed Alexander Zverev will ...

Naomi Osaka turned heads with another sparkling Grand Slam fashion statement on Tuesday and the former world number one matched it with striking tennis to dismantle unseeded German Laura Siegemund 6...

Daniil Medvedev could not avoid the French Open first‑round trapdoor as he fell 6-2 1-6 6-1 1-6 6-4 to Australian wildcard Adam Walton on Tuesday in a match marked ...

The first round of the French Open continues on Monday with four-times champion Iga Swiatek, world number two Elena Rybakina and newly crowned Italian Open champion Elina Svitolina among the ...

French Open dark horse Alexander Zverev started his Roland Garros campaign with a meticulous 6-3 6-4 6-2 first-round demolition of France’s Benjamin Bonzi in searing heat on Sunday. The 2024 ...

Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk made short work of Oksana Selekhmeteva with a 6-2 6-3 victory in the first round of the French Open on Sunday and said she was proud ...

Cyprus has seen its share of arrivals. The latest comes in the form of a “humanitarian defence agreement” with France. The term itself deserves pause. Words such as “humanitarian defence” ...

Pact sets framework for French troop presence on island A Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) constitutes another landmark in the long-evolving defence and security ties between Cyprus and France. It ...

Artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, cyberdefence and space technology are redefining defence, making it imperative to develop domestic technological capabilities that would meet National Guard needs and secure the resilience of ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Monday said that plans for a status of forces agreement to be signed to allow for French troops to be stationed in Cyprus ...

Cyprus is moving towards the signing of a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with France in June, formalising an expanded defence and security partnership that government officials describe as the ...

Cyprus is set to sign an agreement in June allowing the presence of French forces on the island for humanitarian purposes, President Nikos Christodoulides said Sunday. Speaking after a memorial ...

France “loves” Cyprus, the country’s president Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, as he held a joint press conference with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides at the presidential palace in ...

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived at the presidential palace on Thursday afternoon to hold talks with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides. Macron’s arrival was somewhat delayed, with some surmising ...

Joint training between Cyprus and the French armed forces has taken place as part of a bilateral military cooperation programme aimed at strengthening readiness against modern security threats, the National ...

A Paris court on Monday found cement maker Holcim’s Lafarge unit guilty of charges that its Syrian subsidiary financed terrorism and breached European sanctions to keep a plant operating ...

A French high-speed train crashed on Tuesday morning into a truck carrying military equipment at a level crossing near Calais, killing the train driver, a spokesperson for the local prefecture ...

Rima Hassan, a French far-left member of the European Parliament, will face trial in July over a comment she posted on X last month about a 1970s attack on an ...

Cyprus is expediating the acquisition of French-made armoured vehicles for the national guard, with discussions taking place under the European Union’s SAFE programme. According to French newspaper La Tribune, ...

French soldiers completed an “amphibious exercise” in Cyprus over the weekend, with the French army saying the exercise had taken place as part of “technical training” involving sailors and soldiers ...