Track-It Nicolas Sarkozy

Feb. 8--KHARTOUM -- France has thanked Sudan's efforts to release a French aid worker from the Red Cross who had been abducted for more than three months in eastern Chad near Sudanese border. Read more

PARIS — France has agreed to sell Russia an advanced amphibious warship and is considering a Russian request for three more, French defense officials said Monday. It would be the first major arms deal between Russia and a NATO member. Read more

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, Feb. 3:

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France is a militantly secular state that is determined to remain culturally Read more

MOSCOW — A Russian naval official says France will allow the sale of an advanced warship to Russia, the Interfax news agency reported Saturday. Read more

BERLIN — European aerospace company EADS and seven countries that ordered its A400M military transporter narrowed their differences on financing the troubled project Thursday, the German Defense Ministry said. Read more

PARIS — French authorities have denied citizenship to a man who forced his French wife to wear a face-covering veil, saying he had rejected national values of secularism and gender equality. Read more

Feb. 6

1997 -- singer Jennifer Lopez and Ojani Noa, in Miami, Fla. Jennifer and Ojani had a bilingual, Catholic ceremony. Read more

ROME — These days, it seems beleaguered Italian automaking could use a little divine intervention. After car giant Fiat announced plans to shut auto production at its Sicilian plant, Pope Benedict XVI waded into worldly matters to urge the company... Read more

Feb. 3--France is a militantly secular state that is determined to remain culturally homogeneous. While holding dear the ideals of equality and human rights, the country also widely embraces assimilation -- the belief that to be French, immigrants... Read more

DAVOS, Switzerland — The world's foremost gathering of business and government leaders wrapped up a five-day meeting Sunday with widespread agreement that a fragile recovery is under way but no consensus on what's going to spur job growth and... Read more