French President Francois Hollande's security was not compromised by his trysts with actress Julie Gayet, Interior Minister Manuel Valls insisted Sunday.

"I am perfectly clear about that, the president is protected at all times, both in his public movements" and in the private sphere, by a team of around 60 "highly competent" police officers, Valls said on French radio.

Indonesian authorities have approved the parole of a Frenchman jailed 14 years ago for drug-smuggling and he could be released in the coming days, an official said Sunday.

The rare approval for the early release of a foreigner will raise hopes for high-profile Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby, whose efforts to be freed on parole in recent months have been bogged down by bureaucratic wrangling.

President Francois Hollande's partner emerged from a week's stay in hospital Saturday as the French leader faced calls to clear up his personal life after his affair with an actress was made public.

De facto First Lady Valerie Trierweiler left the Paris hospital where she was admitted on January 10 suffering from nervous exhaustion and low blood pressure for a presidential residence in Versailles, a source in her office told Agence France Presse.

President Francois Hollande faced calls to clear up questions about his personal life Saturday as he met supporters in his political stronghold in central France.

Hollande did not comment on revelations last week of an affair with actress Julie Gayet, focusing instead on local issues in a speech to supporters in the town of Tulle in the Correze region.

Europe cannot leave France alone in its bid to restore order in the strife-torn Central African Republic, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in an interview to be published Sunday.

"Europe cannot leave France on its own there," he told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

Hizbullah International Relations official Ammar Moussawi held talks on Friday with a French presidential aide in Beirut, months after the European Union listed the party's military wing as a terrorist organization.

Hizbullah said Moussawi discussed regional and local developments with Emmanuel Bonne, French President Francois Hollande's adviser for Middle East affairs.

Concern and confusion over the health of France's First Lady Valerie Trierweiler mounted Friday as her employer, Paris Match, reported that her family were "worried" for her and that her teenage son had been unable to visit her in hospital.

The weekly magazine, for whom Trierweiler currently writes a literary column, made the statement in a cryptic post on its website a day after she was visited in her Paris clinic by Hollande for the first time since her admission last Friday.

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon David Hale traveled to France on Friday morning, the U.S. embassy said in a statement.

“While there he is scheduled to meet with Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri as well as French officials,” the embassy added.

French President Francois Hollande has paid his first visit to his official partner Valerie Trierweiler since she was hospitalized in the wake of revelations he was having an affair, his office said Friday.

Hollande visited Trierweiler at a Paris hospital on Thursday evening, six days after she was admitted, a spokesman told Agence France Presse.

Israel summoned European ambassadors on Friday accusing them of pro-Palestinian "bias" damaging to peace prospects, in a tit-for-tat move after Israeli envoys were called in over settlement expansion plans.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called in the ambassadors of Britain, France, Italy and Spain to "stress to them that their perpetual one-sided stance against Israel and in favor of the Palestinians is unacceptable and creates the impression they are only seeking ways to blame Israel," his spokesman said.