PARIS: French Prime Minister Michel Barnier's hard-won new government faced pressure from day one on Sunday (Sep 22) as ...

New French prime minister Michel Barnier wants to cut the budget deficit, but the president and his allies are resisting all ...

French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Antoine Armand as finance minister, thrusting a 33-year-old with limited political experience into an urgent budget battle in which he must bring fiscal ...

The first count in Saturday's election showed Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the 55-year-old leader of the People's Liberation ...

Zelenskyy will get the spotlight twice. He will speak Tuesday at a high-level meeting of the U.N. Security Council — called ...

The French presidential palace introduced France’s new government, headed by Prime Minister Michel Barnier, more than two ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued the challenge a year ago after sounding a global alarm about the survival of ...

France's new government, finally appointed two-and-a-half months after elections, features a host of new faces all of whom ...

The French presidential palace unveiled a long-awaited new government Saturday dominated by conservatives and centrists, more ...

The cabinet named by Prime Minister Michel Barnier marks a tilt to the right and will need to avoid being dissolved with a no ...

The government still faces two challenges in the coming weeks: the risk of a no-confidence vote and a tight budget deadline.