Le Pays De France - Politics (English)

Thousands line Suriname streets in homage to late dictator Bouterse

Thousands of people lined the streets of Suriname's capital Saturday for the funeral procession of Desi Bouterse, who led the country both as a coup leader and elected president before dying as a fugitive from justice.

Blinken wades into political crisis with stop in South Korea

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives late Sunday in crisis-riven South Korea where he will seek delicately to encourage continuity with the policies, but not tactics, of the impeached president.