The French government ordered its embassies and French schools abroad to close on Friday, the Muslim holy day, as a precautionary measure in about 20 countries. It immediately shut down the French ...

Over the weekend, cartoon-friendly French President Nicolas Sarkozy lost his re-election bid to Socialist candidate Francois Hollande. By rejecting Sarkozy, the French also rejected austerity measures ...

Less than a year after getting its office firebombed over a cartoon of Mohammed, the French staire magazine Charlie Hedbo couldn't pass up an opportunity to insert itself into the controversy and ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Thursday shut down a decades-old French research institute in response to cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that mocked the ...

PARIS (AP) — A French magazine published vulgar caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday, brandishing its right to free speech amid global tensions over a movie insulting to Islam. In response ...