French Consulate

French authorities on Friday detained a man after receiving an alert from the Iranian consulate in Paris that someone had entered carrying an explosive, the capital's police authority said.

The French foreign ministry said one of its workers had died as a result of injuries sustained from an Israeli attack in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Security was tightened at the French Consulate here on Saturday in the wake of an attack on a church in France, said Superintendent of Police Maran.

A Saudi citizen wounded a guard in a knife attack at the French consulate in Jeddah Thursday, officials said, as France faces growing anger over satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

French Ambassador to India Alexandre Ziegler will confer global software major Wipro Chairman Azim Premji with the highest French civilian award Chevalier del la Legion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) on Wednesday, said its consulate on Tuesday.

The French consulate in New York, where thousands of expatriates were registered to cast ballots in their presidential election on Saturday, was briefly evacuated following a bomb threat, officials said.

French nationals in Puducherry and regions coming under the jurisdiction of that nation's consulate will exercise their franchise tomorrow for the first round of the presidential elections in France.

Pascal Mazurier, a former French diplomat accused of raping his infant daughter, was let off by a court in Bengaluru today for lack of evidence.

Police in Bengaluru are investigating a letter received by the French consulate in the city which warns French President Francois Hollande to not visit India for the upcoming Republic Day parade.

A letter warning against the upcoming visit of President Francois Hollande to India was delivered to the French consulate in Bengaluru, according to news agency ANI.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Friday suspended an honorary consul in Turkey for selling rubber dinghies and life jackets to refugees risking their lives crossing the Mediterranean to Europe.

Inspired by the classic adventure novel 'Around the World in Eighty Days', two French pilots are on a world tour which includes stoppages in three Indian cities.

At least three people were injured on Friday in clashes between anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters and police outside the French consulate in Pakistan's Karachi, officials said, including an Agence France-Presse photographer who was shot in the back.

A car bomb hit the France embassy in Libya on Tuesday, wounding two French guards and causing extensive damage, in the first attack on a foreign mission since militants stormed the US consulate in Benghazi in September.

Pascal Mazurier, the French Consulate official accused of raping his four-year-old daughter in Bangalore, has been granted bail. Mr Mazurier was arrested on June 19 on a complaint by his wife alleging that he had raped his daughter.

French authorities on Friday detained a man after receiving an alert from the Iranian consulate in Paris that someone had entered carrying an explosive, the capital's police authority said.

The French foreign ministry said one of its workers had died as a result of injuries sustained from an Israeli attack in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Security was tightened at the French Consulate here on Saturday in the wake of an attack on a church in France, said Superintendent of Police Maran.

A Saudi citizen wounded a guard in a knife attack at the French consulate in Jeddah Thursday, officials said, as France faces growing anger over satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

French Ambassador to India Alexandre Ziegler will confer global software major Wipro Chairman Azim Premji with the highest French civilian award Chevalier del la Legion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) on Wednesday, said its consulate on Tuesday.

The French consulate in New York, where thousands of expatriates were registered to cast ballots in their presidential election on Saturday, was briefly evacuated following a bomb threat, officials said.

French nationals in Puducherry and regions coming under the jurisdiction of that nation's consulate will exercise their franchise tomorrow for the first round of the presidential elections in France.

Pascal Mazurier, a former French diplomat accused of raping his infant daughter, was let off by a court in Bengaluru today for lack of evidence.

Police in Bengaluru are investigating a letter received by the French consulate in the city which warns French President Francois Hollande to not visit India for the upcoming Republic Day parade.

A letter warning against the upcoming visit of President Francois Hollande to India was delivered to the French consulate in Bengaluru, according to news agency ANI.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Friday suspended an honorary consul in Turkey for selling rubber dinghies and life jackets to refugees risking their lives crossing the Mediterranean to Europe.

Inspired by the classic adventure novel 'Around the World in Eighty Days', two French pilots are on a world tour which includes stoppages in three Indian cities.

At least three people were injured on Friday in clashes between anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters and police outside the French consulate in Pakistan's Karachi, officials said, including an Agence France-Presse photographer who was shot in the back.

A car bomb hit the France embassy in Libya on Tuesday, wounding two French guards and causing extensive damage, in the first attack on a foreign mission since militants stormed the US consulate in Benghazi in September.

Pascal Mazurier, the French Consulate official accused of raping his four-year-old daughter in Bangalore, has been granted bail. Mr Mazurier was arrested on June 19 on a complaint by his wife alleging that he had raped his daughter.