A French diplomat who allegedly struck an Israeli policeman in a confrontation in the West Bank is returning home by agreement between the two governments, an Israeli official said Friday.

"She's going to be going home," the foreign ministry official told Agence France Presse, referring to Marion Fesneau-Castaing, who had been serving at the French consulate-general in Jerusalem.

France called on Friday for the major powers to set a date for a Syria peace conference.

U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon and the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, France, Britain and China were to meet later to discuss a possible conference in Geneva.

France exited recession in the second quarter of the year with economic growth of 0.5 percent, updated figures confirmed Friday, but investment shrank, raising concerns the recovery remains fragile.

The rebound for Europe's second-largest economy in the April-June period followed a six-month economic slide -- though revised data released Friday said the gross domestic product (GDP) contraction in the first quarter was 0.1 percent, instead of the 0.2 percent initially announced.

Air France said on Thursday it will take civil action in court after 1.3 tons of cocaine were smuggled into Paris on a flight from Venezuela.

The drugs were hidden in 30 suitcases and placed on a plane flying from Caracas to Paris on September 11.

Talks are making progress on a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria's chemical weapons including coercive measures to ensure compliance, France said Thursday.

Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who took part Wednesday in a meeting of the five veto-wielding powers, said that negotiations "have progressed overall" and he hoped for a resolution "soon."

The major powers inched toward a U.N. Security Council resolution to back the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons on Wednesday as U.N. experts resumed the hunt for evidence of poison gas attacks.

Russia and the United States are negotiating a Security Council resolution to legally enforce the disarmament plan that they agreed to head off a U.S. military strike.

Interior Minister Manuel Valls on Wednesday insisted he stood by a controversial call for tens of thousands of ethnic Roma to be kicked out of France.

Valls has triggered an outcry from human rights groups, the European Commission and some of his government colleagues by saying any Roma not working should be "delivered back to the borders", describing their way of life as "extremely different from ours," and claiming they will never integrate into French society.

French President Francois Hollande urged Iran Tuesday to make "concrete gestures" on its disputed nuclear program as he met Tehran's new leader.

"France expects Iran to make concrete gestures to show that it renounces its military nuclear program, even if it has a right to a civilian program," Hollande told the U.N. General Assembly.

Two Britons and three Italians were charged Tuesday with smuggling 1.3 tons of cocaine worth an estimated 200 million euros ($270m) into Paris on an Air France flight, a judicial source said.

The drugs were concealed inside 30 suitcases that were placed on a plane from the Venezuelan capital Caracas to Paris on September 11.

French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday the U.N. Security Council had to make a threat of eventual "coercive" measures against Syria if it does not hand over its chemical weapons.

Hollande told the U.N. General Assembly that a resolution being discussed must "foresee coercive measures" under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter and for those responsible for chemical weapon attacks in Syria to be "held accountable in the justice system."