PARIS — News that foreign investors would be allowed to take bets on French debt has been greeted with cries from the country's politicians and media that a "weapon of mass destruction against France" had been unleashed in what amounted to a "financial ...

Malian government troops, left in disarray after a coup d'etat in the capital, fled major towns in northern Mali in late March. The area was quickly taken over by Tuareg fighters who want an independent state in north Mali and Islamic militants who instead ...