Scott Sayare

The French government said Tuesday that it was helping negotiate the surrender of Ivory Coast's strongman, Laurent Gbagbo, a day after the United Nations and France struck targets at his residence, his offices and two of his military bases in a significant escalation of the international intervention into the political crisis engulfing the nation.F...

The residents of this poor, multiracial Paris suburb say they have been abandoned. For 30 years, they say, the French authorities have written off Bondy and neighborhoods like it, treating their inhabitants as terminal delinquents and ignoring their potential. This, residents note, is not the approach taken by the United States Department of State....

The neighbors do not like the Zero Zero bar, the graffiti-plastered dive on an otherwise sleepy stretch of Rue Amelot, in the 11th Arrondissement.

The French government said Tuesday that it was helping negotiate the surrender of Ivory Coast's strongman, Laurent Gbagbo, a day after the United Nations and France struck targets at his residence, his offices and two of his military bases in a significant escalation of the international intervention into the political crisis engulfing the nation.F...

The residents of this poor, multiracial Paris suburb say they have been abandoned. For 30 years, they say, the French authorities have written off Bondy and neighborhoods like it, treating their inhabitants as terminal delinquents and ignoring their potential. This, residents note, is not the approach taken by the United States Department of State....

The neighbors do not like the Zero Zero bar, the graffiti-plastered dive on an otherwise sleepy stretch of Rue Amelot, in the 11th Arrondissement.