Francois Hollande extended the state of emergency in France after the terror attack in Nice. PARIS: French President Francois Hollande said today that the state of emergency in the country has been extended by three months after an attacker killed 80 people and injured several others in the city of Nice, when he drove a truck into a crowded area. “French state of emergency has been extended for 3 months,” President Hollande said during... 

PARIS: Europe needs to be reinvented according to a new plan that could be put to an EU-wide referendum later, but it would be “totally irresponsible” to hold a plebiscite in France before that, France’s would-be president, Alain Juppe, said on today. Alain Juppe, prime minister from 1995 to 1997, is campaigning to persuade the conservative Les Republicains party to nominate him rather than ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy in November’s...