A defense team for Julian Assange said Thursday they will seek asylum in France for the WikiLeaks founder, who is facing extradition to the United States and 175 years in prison for espionage charges.

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe smiles as he talks with French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner prior to a debate on immigration reform, at the National Assembly, in Paris, Monday, Oct. 7, ...

Marina Ovsyannikova, a Russian journalist who protested Russia's war in Ukraine during a live broadcast on state-run television, has declined an asylum offer. The news comes days after Ovsyannikova ...

Beijing said Wednesday France granting asylum to the wife of former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei -- who has been charged in China with accepting bribes -- would be an abuse of its own legal procedures.

NIAMEY, Niger — In a bare suite of prefab offices, inside a compound off a dirt road, French bureaucrats are pushing France’s borders thousands of miles into Africa, hoping to head off would-be ...

PARIS, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Workers at France's asylum claims office went on a rare strike on Tuesday, saying they were understaffed and overworked and that a new immigration law that is poised for a ...

CALAIS, France, Nov. 14 (Thursday) -- As many as 70 asylum-seekers, most of them Iraqi Kurds and Afghans, were evicted by police from a Catholic church in this northern port today, as France began ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile has formally protested to France over its decision to grant political asylum to a longtime fugitive leftist guerilla who escaped prison after being convicted for the killing ...

Karim Christian Kamal, a citizen of France, says he has fought for years to expose French corruption and a pedophile ring that ensnared his daughter. French authorities call Kamal a liar who kidnapped ...

PARISPARIS — French lawmakers are grappling with one of the country’s thorniest issues. On Monday, they began debating immigration, at a time when tent cities have expanded in urban areas across the ...