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Latest in Tag: france
400 protest near French embassy in Iran
No violence was reported
US waivers 11 nations complying with Sanctions placed on Iran
Nations complying with Iranian sanctions are granted waivers to aid them in diminishing imports from Iran
Survivor of Chevalline shootings awakens from coma
Daughter of slain parents awakes from coma as police investigate killings
Murders in the Alps bear hallmarks of a professional hit
Four people murdered in the French Alps on Wednesday victims of a well-orchestrated assassination
France investigates Arafat’s death
French judge will lead investigation into claims of radiation poisoning
Hollande vows to quell unrest
Dozens of people clashed with police officers clad in riot gear on Monday
France heads back into recession
Paris (AFP) — France is headed back into recession for the second time in three years, its central bank warned Wednesday in a setback for the recovery prospects of the stricken eurozone. In a downbeat survey of the outlook for Europe’s second biggest economy, the Bank of France predicted a 0.1 percent contraction in gross …
Germany, France vow to do ‘protect eurozone’
Berlin (AFP) — The leaders of Germany and France threw their political support Friday behind ECB chief Mario Draghi’s vow to do “everything” to protect the eurozone, after another brutal week of market turmoil. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande said in a joint statement released in Berlin and Paris after a …
Algeria and France seek an end to Mali crisis
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika met Laurent Fabius on Monday on the French foreign minister’s first official trip to an Arab country
Will the tragedy in Toulouse unite France?
By Rabbi François Garai GENEVA, Switzerland: The assassination of French Muslim and Christian military personnel and French Jewish civilians two weeks ago in Toulouse and Montauban has rocked France. Yet beyond the fears that this act has stirred among both French Jews and their Muslim compatriots, the desire for co-existence prevails. Many of us European …
Decolonizing the franc zone
By Sanou Mbaye DAKAR: France is wrestling with a burden of debts and public deficits that led Standard & Poor’s recently to downgrade its credit rating. Even as the risk of recession looms, the country has been forced to implement a drastic austerity program. But France’s woes are also being felt far beyond its borders, sparking …
Murder Unincorporated
By Ian Buruma NEW YORK: What possessed the young French Muslim Mohammed Merah to murder three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi, and three soldiers, two of them fellow Muslims? What possessed another man, Anders Breivik, to gun down more than 60 teenagers in a Norwegian summer camp last year? These murder sprees are so unusual that people …
French police swoop on suspected Islamists
By Gerard Bon and Brian Love / Reuters PARIS: French police commandos arrested 19 people and seized weapons on Friday morning swoops on people suspected of radical Islamist activity, in several cities including Toulouse, scene of the killings of four Jews and three soldiers this month. President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is waging an uphill battle for …
Four Muslim preachers banned from entering France
By AFP PARIS: France said Thursday it had banned four Muslim preachers from entering France to attend an Islamic conference, saying their “calls for hatred and violence” were a threat to public order. President Nicolas Sarkozy had wanted to ban the high-profile Islamic clerics from attending the conference next month in the wake of a …