Laurent Fabius News

Independent-centrist and former investment banker Emmanuel Macron was sworn in on Sunday as the 25th French President and the youngest in the nation's history.

Eleven candidates have been approved to run for French president, the country's Constitutional Council announced today, a month before the vote.

Former French foreign minister Laurent Fabius will step down as head of COP21, the UN`s climate forum, after being appointed head of France`s constitutional court, according to a resignation letter seen by AFP.

A landmark climate change deal was tonignt clinched with the approval of India, China and the US, after days of tough negotiations here with the legally-binding pact seeking to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius and committing USD 100 billion a year from 2020 to help developing nations.

The climate change conference today came out with an ambitious final draft of a deal that proposes limiting global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius and committing USD 100 billion a year from 2020 to help developing countries in coping with the problem.

The final version of a deal to combat global warming should be presented on Saturday by the French foreign minister, an official said on Friday.

Sleep-starved envoys tasked with saving mankind from catastrophic climate change zeroed in Friday on a historic Paris accord, battling through a second all-night session of UN talks in search of a solution.  

Still reeling from the worst terrorist attacks in French history, Paris will host nearly 140 world leaders gathering next week to spearhead a climate pact tasked with keeping Earth liveable for humanity.

The Rio 2016 Games, to be held from August 5 to 21, will be the first Olympics in South America.

Other large developing countries in many cases so far have only pledged to keep GHG emissions from increasing.

As many as 129 people were killed and 350 others injured in the terror attacks in Paris on November 13.

France's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development Laurent Fabius will visit India on November 20 and 21.

Large swathes of New York and Shanghai could disappear under the waves and millions driven into poverty, fresh climate reports warned as ministers scrambled today for common ground weeks ahead of a crunch environmental summit.

The son of the French foreign minister is the subject of an arrest warrant for writing bad checks at a Las Vegas casino the night before his father assumed his position.

The United Nations set the goal which scientists say will spare the planet the worst consequences of warming.

French authorities have launched a probe into Syrian President Bashar al-Assad`s regime for alleged war crimes, sources said Tuesday, as world powers sparred at the UN over the embattled leader`s fate.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius today urged nations that have yet to submit carbon-curbing targets to do so without delay, ahead of UN talks for a climate rescue pact to be inked in Paris in December.

India has been identified as a bright spot in the global economy, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Friday at a meeting here attended by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

He extended the invitation when French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development Laurent Fabius called on him here.

A USD10 billion fine that the US is reportedly preparing for BNP Paribas bank for violating sanctions could hurt negotiations on a mega transatlantic trade deal, France warned again on Friday.