British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande agreed that a political process in Syria must be revived, a source close to the French president said on Tuesday.

At a meeting at Cameron's country residence, Chequers, the two leaders "expressed agreement on the need to revitalize the political process" in Syria, according to a source in Hollande's entourage.

Two political leaders of the Basque separatist group ETA were arrested in southwestern France on Tuesday, local police and the Spanish interior minister said.

The arrests of ETA members David Pla and Iratxe Sorzabal "completes the decapitation of ETA", minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz told reporters as he arrived for a meeting in Brussels.

Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Front, has been ordered to stand trial in October on charges of inciting racial hatred after comparing Muslim street prayers to the Nazi occupation, legal sources said Tuesday.

Le Pen was campaigning to take over leadership of the FN from her father in December 2010 when she made the comparison, complaining that there were "10 to 15" places in France where Muslims worshiped in the streets outside mosques when they were full.

French police on Monday fired tear gas as they broke down several makeshift camps around the port city of Calais, leaving nearly 400 people, mostly Syrian refugees, without shelter.

A local government source told AFP that aside from the sprawling "New Jungle" where some 3,000 people have set up camp -- most seeking desperately to get to England -- "any illegal settlement cannot remain and will result in evacuation."

France opened a business development office in Tehran on Monday seeking to renew once-strong economic ties with Iran after the July 14 nuclear deal in the face of "fierce competition".

French Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll and Minister of State for Foreign Trade Matthias Fekl inaugurated the "Business France" office on a visit with some 150 business leaders that is to run until Wednesday.

French President Francois Hollande arrived in Morocco Saturday on an official visit that takes place against a backdrop of controversy over torture lawsuits in Paris against the kingdom's intelligence chief.

Hollande, accompanied by five ministers and a delegation of business leaders, was met on the tarmac in Tangiers by King Mohammed VI at the start of the two-day visit.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claimed in an interview published Friday that President Francois Hollande "stabbed me in the back" by rejecting his request for asylum in France.

The head of the whistleblowing website told Society magazine that France's rejection of his request in July followed discussions at the highest levels.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls urged the Hungarian government to treat migrants at its borders humanely, saying its current attitude toward them was unacceptable.

"We are shocked by the images of women at Europe's borders. Each migrant must be treated with respect and humanely. We can not accept the statements, nor the attitudes, nor the barbed wire," Valls told reporters in Stockholm.

A migrant was electrocuted late Thursday near the entrance to the Channel Tunnel in France as he tried to climb on to the roof of a train to make his way to England, an official said.

"The individual died after he was electrocuted trying to climb on to the freight car," a spokesman for the local authorities in northern France told Agence France Presse.

Leading Algerian jihadist Said Arif was killed in Syria in May by a U.S. drone, French officials speaking on condition of anonymity told Agence France Presse on Thursday.

The death of the 49-year-old, considered a major recruiter of foreign fighters for jihadist groups in Syria, had been reported on social media in recent months but had not been confirmed until now.