Jacques René Chirac, a champion of Europe and fierce opponent of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, has died. The former two-term president was 86. Chirac spent half a century in the public eye. Before he was ...

Former French President Jacques Chirac, an outspoken critic of the Iraq War, is set to stand trial for misusing public funds when he was mayor of Paris. The corruption trial makes Chirac the first ...

Dozens of world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, were expected in Paris on Monday to pay their final respects to France's late president Jacques Chirac as the country holds a ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A judge found former French president Jacques Chirac guilty on Thursday of misusing public funds, making him the country's first head of state to be convicted since Nazi collaborator ...

PARIS — Jacques Chirac, admired and scorned during 12 years as president of France, leaves a legacy as mixed and ambiguous as the man himself.

When late French president Jacques Chirac departed a sumo arena in Japan's Osaka in 2005, the crowd gave him a standing ovation, applauding the sport's super-fan and chanting "Shiraku, Shiraku!" For ...

In Brussels today, President Bush celebrated European unity, and tonight he's eating dinner with French President Jacques Chirac. Tomorrow he'll be the first American leader to visit the headquarters ...