France is the country most likely to encounter a government bond crisis in the next two years, topping peers including the UK and US, according to a Deutsche Bank AG survey.

The disruption gave loud voice to widespread complaints that eight years of leadership by France’s business-friendly president have benefited too few people and hurt too many.

MOSCOW -Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of the Telegram messaging app, accused French intelligence on Sunday of having asked him through an intermediary to censor some Moldovan voices in return for help with his court case in France.

France and the United States are planning a second joint mission of coordinated satellite maneuvers in orbit, part of a growing push to sharpen allied spying capabilities as China expands its own military footprint in space,

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced Monday his government had deployed “the Swedish Armed Forces to support Denmark with military anti-drone capabilities in connection with this week's summits in Copenhagen,” including a specialized unit that will embed with the Danish military.

An appeals trial of Air France and Airbus opened Monday over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight that killed 228 people, the worst disaster in the French flag carrier's history.On June 1, 2009, Air France flight AF447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris was cruising over the Atlantic when the pilots lost control of the aircraft and plunged into the ocean.

Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty by the Paris Criminal Court. He has been sentenced to five years in prison, part of it to be served, for criminal conspiracy.

Grant Thornton’s private equity-backed US business has agreed to buy sister firms in France, Spain and Belgium, dealing a blow to its UK rival in their battle to consolidate the world’s seventh largest accounting network.