The presidents of France and the United States issued a joint call Monday for other nations to join them in seeking an "ambitious" agreement to curb climate change.

Presidents Barack Obama and Francois Hollande, writing in an article in the Washington Post and Le Monde, called for support "in pursuit of an ambitious and inclusive global agreement" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions "through concrete actions" at a climate conference in Paris in 2015.

U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande are scheduled to hold talks in Washington on Monday to tackle a number of issues, including the situation in Lebanon, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.

It said that they are likely to address “the extent to which Iran can take part in forming a new Lebanese government.”

French President Francois Hollande's dumped ex, Valerie Trierweiler, is to sue Closer magazine after the French glossy published pictures of her getting over her break-up on a tropical beach.

The former first lady announced the move in a statement to Agence France Presse.

Judges investigating alleged kickbacks from French arms sales want ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy to testify before a special court, a lawyer representing civil parties in the case said Friday.

Olivier Morice told Agence France Presse that investigating magistrates in the "Karachi Affair" want the Cour de Justice de la Republique (CJR), which hears cases of ministerial misconduct, to take up the case.

President Michel Suleiman participated on Friday in a ceremony in Tunisia to celebrate the adoption of the country's new constitution three years after the revolution and attended by the heads of state.

Suleiman voiced hope during a brief speech before the Tunisian national assembly that Tunis enjoys stability and prosperity after the adoption of the new constitution.

Tunisia celebrated Friday the adoption of a new constitution three years after the revolution, a landmark in getting its troubled transition back on track and hailed as a model by foreign leaders.

A ceremony at the national assembly, where the constitution was adopted on January 26, burnished Tunisia's positive image in contrast with other Arab Spring nations, such as Libya and Egypt, which remain plagued by instability and political turmoil.

The International Support Group for Lebanon is expected to meet in March in Paris at the invitation of France for the establishment of two funds the first to support Lebanon's economy and the second to aid the Syrian refugees in the country.

Sources told An Nahar newspaper that the meeting will seek to set a plan to grant Lebanon the funds to offer it financial support amid the acute crisis it's suffering from due to the ongoing conflict in Syria.

French President Francois Hollande's approval rating has fallen below 20 percent for the first time since being elected in 2012, a poll published Thursday revealed.

According to the poll from TNS Sofres/Sopra group/Le Figaro magazine, Hollande's rating fell three points to 19 percent, a new low in his popularity, while the proportion of French voters who said they did not trust the president increased by two points to 78 percent.

Tunisians on Thursday marked 12 turbulent months since the assassination of opposition politician Chokri Belaid, with his family still demanding to know what happened despite the alleged assassin being shot dead this week.

The charismatic leftist and virulent critic of the Islamist party Ennahda, then in power, was gunned down outside his Tunis home on February 6, 2013.

The most westerly part of France was placed on a red alert for potential flooding on Thursday as high tides and ferocious storms wreaked havoc up and down Europe's Atlantic coast.

Finestere, a department of Brittany which juts out into the Ocean, was braced for two of its rivers, the Morlaix and the Laita to burst their banks as a result of heavy rain forecast for Thursday.