French President Francois Hollande's envoy is expected to visit Beirut in the coming weeks in an effort to revive France's efforts to resolve the Lebanese presidential deadlock.

An Nahar daily on Thursday quoted ministerial sources as saying that the Director of the Department of the Middle East and North Africa at the French Foreign Ministry, Jean-François Girault, will visit Beirut at the end of the month or in early July.

France's $3 billion Saudi-funded deal to provide military supplies to Lebanon has not been canceled, the Saudi foreign minister said Wednesday, despite the delays.

"There is an agreement... there is no blockage. Everything is proceeding normally," said Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir during a visit to Paris. 

Despite the furious protests of France over the latest U.S. spying claims, experts say that in the intelligence game there are no friends or enemies -- only interests -- and all means are justified to pursue them. 

France may have expressed its outrage at the "unacceptable" news that the U.S. spied on President Francois Hollande and his two immediate predecessors, but much of the shock is feigned, experts say.  

She wanted to move to a land where "the laws of Allah apply" but found herself trapped in a world of arbitrary beatings and violence where women are treated as sexual objects.

Nadia (not her real name), a 21-year-old French woman, was recruited earlier this spring by Islamic State (IS) jihadists on Internet chatrooms and then traveled to the militants' self-declared capital of Raqa, in Syria.

France said Wednesday it would look into building two nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia as part of a multi-billion-euro package of deals, days before the deadline of nuclear talks with the kingdom's rival, Iran.

A feasibility study will be carried out to build two European Pressurized Reactors in Saudi Arabia, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced after a meeting with Saudi Defense Minister Prince Mohamed bin Salman in Paris.

Britain will increase screening of arrivals at Dover and create a task force to tackle people smugglers, officials said on Wednesday, as growing numbers of migrants step up efforts to cross the Channel.

The announcement came a day after severe transport disruption caused by striking French ferry workers and migrants in Calais boarding trucks and attempting to enter the Channel Tunnel to reach Britain.

Cross-Channel Eurostar train services resumed on Wednesday after they were suspended the day before when hundreds of protesting French ferry workers set fire to tires on the tracks.

Eurostar's website said the first train of the day from Paris to London left as scheduled at 7.10 am (0510 GMT). The first train of the day from London to Paris also departed on time.

France summoned the U.S. ambassador on Wednesday to complain about "unacceptable" spying on President Francois Hollande and his two predecessors that was apparently revealed in leaked documents.

Hollande was due to discuss the documents released by WikiLeaks with U.S. President Barack Obama in the coming hours.

A French court on Tuesday threw out a case brought by a mother trying to sue the government for failing to stop her teenage son from leaving to join jihadists in Syria.

The boy was 16 when he left with three others from the town of Nice in southern France in December 2013, taking a plane to Turkey and then traveling overland to Syria. 

A French court on Tuesday freed Yoo Som-Na, daughter of a South Korean tycoon blamed for a ferry disaster that killed more than 300 people, her lawyers told AFP, after Seoul had requested her extradition.

"Taking into account the political context, the threats to the presumption of innocence... [the court] decided to release" Yoo while waiting for further information, said her lawyers in a joint statement.