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Latest in Tag: france
Concert gala at Cairo Opera House
Cairo Opera House holds a concert gala to showcase local talents
Egypt hosts international meeting on Syria
Officials from 11 countries express support for SNC and Al-Khatib
Foreign Minister meets French President
Mohamed Kamel Amr talks to French President Françoise Hollande about the upcoming French African summit
Kamel Amr in France
Foreign Minister meets with his counterpart and French President
Kamel Amr to visit France
Minister of Foreign Affairs to meet his French counterpart and President Hollande during three-day visit
Paris, London could arm Syria rebels without EU support
If unanimous EU support for lifting the measure is lacking, the French and British governments will decide to deliver weapons
Iran to sue over Hollywood films like Argo: lawyer
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last month criticised Hollywood as a “totally political” machine that propagates policies brewed in Washington.
In Pictures: Balloon crash 18 killed, 3 injured
Tourists from France, UK, Japan, Honk Kong and Hungary involved in a hot air balloon crash near Luxor
Balloon crash: 18 killed, 3 injured
Citizens of France, UK, Japan and Hong Kong aboard hot air balloon that caught fire near Luxor
John Kerry embarks on tour of Europe and Middle East
Kerry will visit the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar from February 24 to March 6.
Electricity and energy ministry to hold bid for BOO power station in Dairut
Minister of electricity and energy: Dairut factory will be the first of its kind in Egypt to operate on a BOO scheme
France bombs Islamist supply routes in Mali
Dozens of French warplanes carried out massive air strikes on rebel training and logistics centres in the area around their last stronghold of Kidal over the weekend in the mountainous northeast of the landlocked county.
Egyptian and French Business leaders agree to strengthen economic ties
Both sides recognised the need to strengthen economic ties given the long history of cooperation between Cairo and Paris.
Mali: a serving of ‘Freedom Fries’
French intervention in Mali is motivated by economic rather than democratic concerns In 2003, the Bush administration justified the invasion of Iraq on the grounds that Saddam Hussein had ties with Al-Qaeda and possessed weapons of mass destruction. Bush named the invasion ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’, claiming that he wanted democracy for Iraq. The French administration …
Egypt opposes foreign intervention in Mali
Morsy and Fahmy reject military action in Mali, arguing it may intensify conflict
Algeria hostage crisis updates
Hostage-takers want to negotiate an end to French intervention in Mali and exchange American hostages for prisoners held in the US
France orders increased security at foreign missions
Following threats from Islamists who disagree with intervention in Mali, France has ordered all missions in the Arab world to beef up security
French air strikes in Mali continue for third day
French air power helped the Malian army to retake the central town of Konna from the Islamists on Friday and President Francois Hollande said Saturday that the rebels had suffered heavy losses, estimated at 100 of their fighters.
Turkey demands France clarify Paris slayings
Hollande had said the murder of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Soylemez was “terrible,” adding that he knew one of the Kurdish women and that she “regularly met us.”
Lawsuit targets French paper over naked Mohammed cartoons
Suit targets the publication, its director and two cartoonists
UK, France summon Israeli envoys over settler plan
E1 is a highly contentious area of the West Bank that runs between the easternmost edge of annexed East Jerusalem and the Maaleh Adumim settlement
Sarkozy to wade in to battle ravaging French right
Polls show the overwhelming majority of French voters and UMP supporters would like to see the party run the election again
Rivals clash over leadership of French right ahead of talks
The party has faced ridicule over the leadership debacle
France ends combat mission in Afghanistan
Nijrab Base, Afghanistan(AFP) – France ended its combat mission in Afghanistan on Tuesday, withdrawing troops from a strategic province northeast of Kabul as part of a quickened departure from the war-torn country. Paris says all French combat soldiers will leave the country next month, two years before allied nations contributing to the 100,000-strong International Security …
Syria slams ‘hostile’ France as fighting rages
Despite the French offer to host an envoy, Paris remained cautious on the issue of supplying weapons to Syrian rebels
EU-Arab League ministers announce Cairo Declaration
Ministers welcome the formation of Syrian opposition coalition
Interpol elects French woman as first female president
Balestrazzi, 58, became a police commissioner in France in 1975 and was already vice-president for Europe on Interpol’s executive committee
Hollande backs Lebanon over Syria crisis
The Beirut stop was a last-minute decision taken by Hollande to express France’s solidarity with Lebanon
Netanyahu in France to discuss Iran with Hollande
Iran denies Israeli and Western suspicions that its nuclear programme is a front for a drive for a weapons capability
Prostitution trial linked to Gaddafi son opens in France
Mutassim Kadhafi was killed with his father on October 20 last year. Investigators never questioned the son.