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Also the Japan’s nuke site attracted the most of world attention understandably, the steadily run renovating activities at sites devastated previously are surely...
made popular Jun 12 2011
The Economist magazine recently posed the question as to whether the former head of the IMF would have faced the same prosecution in Paris or Rome. If an African...
made popular May 24 2011
When World Bank president, Paul Wolfowitz, hired his lover and paid her thousands of dollars, many thought it was an extension of World Bank’s poverty alleviation....
made popular May 16 2011
French government decision on ban on burqa comes as no surprise as it was in the cards for some time. French constitution has given the concept of liberty, equality and...
made popular Apr 13 2011
Reuters.
French authorities were instructed Monday to start enforcement of a ban on the niqab (Islamic full-face veil). The law was passed by the French parliament...
made popular Apr 12 2011
A nice place in Elwood, Australia-but with a twist...(see article), [icture by M. Kerjman
Believe it or not to, modern computing makes hunting the ghost possible even...
made popular Mar 30 2011
President Nicolas Sarkozy tried to put a lid on the political furor over senior ministers’ taking free flights in Tunisia and Egypt last Christmas by telling his...
made popular Feb 10 2011
The French prime minister has admitted that the Egyptian government gave his family free accommodation, transport in a private plane and a trip down the Nile during the...
made popular Feb 9 2011
(Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on Monday for new rules to curb commodity price volatility, warning as he laid out his G20 agenda that the world...
made popular Jan 25 2011
BERLIN — France and Denmark on Monday became the latest countries affected by Germany’s tainted food scare, in which pig and chicken feed were contaminated with...
made popular Jan 11 2011
The French Defence Minister Alain Juppe has defended the decision to launch a rescue attempt for two French men who had been kidnapped in Niger.
made popular Jan 10 2011
It seems, to date none in the Instablogs informed of a Jewish distinctively-different genotype the most close to ones of Italians and French, yet.
Maybe, this...
made popular Jan 6 2011
Paris (CNN) — A young man armed with two swords entered a kindergarten and took children hostage in eastern France Monday morning, the French Ministry of...
made popular Dec 13 2010
A huge cache of canvas painted by Pablo Picasso nearly 100 years ago were unveiled for the first time by a French man who claimed the art works were gifted to him by...
made popular Nov 30 2010
France’s new foreign minister has rejected a reported message from al Qaida’s North Africa branch saying Paris should negotiate with Osama bin Laden over...
made popular Nov 19 2010
PARIS — Lest one fear the end of France’s centuries of culinary panache, Unesco officials on Tuesday enshrined the “gastronomic meal of the French” as part of...
made popular Nov 17 2010
French actress, model and singer Vanessa Paradis brings a seductive beauty to the November issue of Interview magazine. Captured by Mikael Jansson, Vanessa dons...
made popular Nov 17 2010
Paris, France (CNN) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy reappointed Francois Fillon as prime minister on Sunday, but named new defense and foreign ministers in a...
made popular Nov 15 2010
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PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy of France reappointed Francois Fillon the country’s prime minister and named a new, more rightist Cabinet on Sunday, a day...
made popular Nov 15 2010
The French political system has a nice little gimmick: fire the prime minister. France, unlike, say, the United States, divides - in theory - its head of state and head...
made popular Nov 15 2010
It’s one of the grandest palaces in central Paris, housing treasured national documents from Napoleon’s will to the rules of tennis. But behind a makeshift...
made popular Nov 11 2010
Geneva: The International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons in collaboration of the International Humanist and Ethical Union organised a conference in Geneva against...
made popular Nov 11 2010
Geneva: International Conference on enforced-disappearances in Balochistan
The International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons in collaboration of the International...
made popular Nov 11 2010
Air France-KLM Group and British Airways Plc were among 11 carriers fined a total of 799.4 million euros ($1.1 billion) by European Union regulators for coordinating...
made popular Nov 10 2010
In two words: naked father feedin’ a kid kicked out of the flat a room-mate running himself naked in the middle of the night and this lead to strange...
made popular Oct 25 2010
The French people are still at it with their protests against the pending change in retirement age, and those protests are getting nasty with demonstrations and a fuel...
made popular Oct 18 2010
An odd tax structure for an egalitarian nation.
No one can fault France for having too little taxes. The nation is certainly overtaxed both on consumption and income....
made popular Oct 8 2010
Tensions in the town of Cap d’Agde, which is known as France’s “Naked City” thanks to its large nudist population, have risen after locals...
made popular Sep 24 2010
Al-Qaeda has warned Paris not to attempt to rescue five French nationals kidnapped by the jihadists in Niger, SITE monitoring group said Thursday, as France mobilised...
made popular Sep 23 2010
French unions plan another day of mass street protests and strikes on Thursday to fight Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to hike the retirement age to 62, the centrepiece...
made popular Sep 22 2010
“The terrorist threat is real and today our vigilance, therefore, is reinforced,” French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said today.
In the recent past,...
made popular Sep 21 2010
French President Nicolas Sarkozy stunned a European summit Thursday, clashing with top officials and tripping up on a claim that Germany was about to copy controversial...
made popular Sep 20 2010
Roma groups protested at France’s expulsion policy and threatened to take Paris to the European court Saturday, as another top EU official took aim at President...
made popular Sep 20 2010
Only a few decades ago, it would have counted as one of the faster Channel swims of all time, so it was all the more remarkable that Philippe Croizon, who as no arms or...
made popular Sep 20 2010
After the rights groups presented their case, a Paris judge ordered “Our Body” to be closed in 2009. The exhibition organisers shot back that the ruling had been...
made popular Sep 20 2010
A row over France’s crackdown on Roma (Gypsy) migrants from Romania and Bulgaria looks set to dominate a summit of EU leaders in Brussels.
President Nicolas...
made popular Sep 17 2010
The anti-burqa law in France has overcome one last hurdle and should become law next year, barring any opposition by the courts. The lower house already voted for the...
made popular Sep 15 2010
The last refugee of a politician.
If all else fails: resort to attacking a vulnerable minority to stir far-right nationalist passions as a distraction.
Such is the...
made popular Sep 15 2010
The EU Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, says the European Commission is considering legal action against France over its deportations of Roma (Gypsies).
Ms Reding...
made popular Sep 14 2010
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Members of Reporters Without Borders demonstrate in front of Iranian embassy in Paris Sunday May 3, 2009, in support of imprisoned journalist Roxana Saberi. US-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi, awaiting an appeal against her eight-year jail sentence for...
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