French soldiers opened fire to chase off pirates who launched an attack Saturday on two fishing boats in the Indian Ocean, France's military said. Soldiers stationed aboard two French tuna trawlers tried to warn the pirates away with flares and warning shots, but once the pirates ...

Somali pirates attempted to storm the French navy's 18,000 tonne flagship in the Indian Ocean after mistaking it for a cargo vessel, the French military said on Wednesday. The crew of La Somme, a 160-metre (525-foot) command vessel and fuel tanker, easily saw off the brazen night-time assault by lightly armed fighters on two lightweight skiffs and captured ...

A French nuclear submarine launched a high-tech undersea sweep Wednesday to track down the black boxes missing after an Air France flight plunged into the Atlantic. The Emeraude, a nuclear hunter-killer sub, will use its sensitive sonar to probe the ocean depths off Brazil in a race to find the flight data recorders before their locator beacons run out of ...