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US Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Secretary William Hague discuss Syria at the Friends of Syria meeting in Amman on Wednesday evening World powers urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to commit to peace but warned Thursday that if he fails to negotiate a political transition they would boost their backing of the opposition.

In an attack that raised new fears of terrorism in Britain, a man walking near a military barracks in south London on Wednesday was rammed by a car and then hacked to death by two knife-wielding assailants, according to witness accounts carried by British news media.

Defenders of the French language are furious at plans to introduce courses taught in English at public universities, arguing that France must protect itself against linguistic encroachment or risk losing its cultural identity.

Lawmakers in the United Kingdom's House of Commons approved a bill Tuesday that would allow same-sex couples in England and Wales to marry for the first time.

Stateside, you might guess it was the alternative minimum tax. In France, it was a one-time 2011 levy on incomes for households with assets over 1.3 million euros .

The European Union is reassessing whether to declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization, a move it has long shied from despite pressure from the U.S., officials said Wednesday.

A man has been killed in a violent attack in the south-east London area of Woolwich.

The European Union is reassessing whether to declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization, a move it has long shied from despite pressure from the U.S., officials said Wednesday.

European leaders targeted Wednesday setting a year-end deadline to do away with banking secrecy, hoping to recoup a trillion euros in lost tax each year in a time of record recession and unemployment.

France's National Assembly is taking up an education reform bill that would allow public universities to hold some courses - like science or economics classes - in English, a plan that has alarmed language purists and the political far-right alike.

David Cameron is to urge EU leaders to back global action against tax evasion and "aggressive" tax avoidance that is causing nations "staggering" losses.

A right-wing French historian and activist shot himself to death today in Paris's famed Notre Dame Cathedral, apparently in protest of the nation's new marriage equality law.

French right-wing historian Dominique Venner shot and killed himself on the altar of Paris' famed Notre Dame Cathedral today at 4PM local time in front of throngs of tourists in protest of France's recent legalization of same-sex marriage.

More than 8,000 French households' tax bills topped 100 percent of their income in 2012, according to a French newspaper report.

The parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside a suburban Oklahoma City church, listening as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who were being dropped off - survivors of a deadly tornado... PARIS - The man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest there is gaining a ... (more)

Brussels: European Union leaders struggling to find a consensus on how to overcome the debt crisis and revive economic growth will use a summit meeting this week to focus on fighting tax evasion and on the bloc's energy policy.

Public and private lives clash together, and create a decent amount of laughs, in the shot-on-the-fly French indie dramedy Age of Panic .

British Prime Minister David Cameron faced further dissent from within the ranks of his Conservative Party as a bill to legalise gay marriage returned to Parliament on Monday.

May 18, 2013 will be remembered for many in France as the day that same-gender marriage became legal.

Yes, now it's France, back in recession for the third time in four years, which is being lectured on the need to submit to the rigours of neoliberal change.