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FRANCE: Prime minister denies rift with President Sarkozy
France News Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:50:53 +0000
Media reports say French President Nicolas Sarkozy recently locked horns with his popular PM François Fillon, reports Fillon denies. But as Sarkozy’s ratings plummet, the reports could affect the ruling party’s chances in the upcoming regional poll.
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FRANCE: Study shows how downloaders skirt anti-piracy laws
France News Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:28:04 +0000
A study on the effects of a French law aimed at reducing Internet piracy has shown that canny "pirates" have plenty of ways to bypass legislation.
FRANCE: Far-Right election poster ‘insults’ Algeria
France News Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:52:15 +0000
France’s far-right Front National has upset Algeria, a former French colony, in its latest election poster denouncing "Islamism" and featuring a map of France decked in the North African country’s national flag.
FRANCE: Sarkozy ‘works up a sweat’ in faltering campaign
France News Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:34:35 +0000
Members of France's opposition have blasted President Nicolas Sarkozy’s involvement in the regional elections, claiming Sarkozy is over-stepping his mandate. Political analyst Stephane Rozes explains what is at stake for the embattled president.
FRANCE: Iranian assassin Ali Vakili Rad's parole ruling postponed until May
France News Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:01:17 +0000
A French judge on Tuesday postponed a decision on whether to grant assassin Ali Vakili Rad parole until May. Rad was convicted of the 1991 murder of a former Iranian prime minister outside of Paris.
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FRANCE: Sarkozy urges international finance for nuclear energy
France News Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:33:02 +0000
France's Sarkozy Monday urged international financial institutions to help countries develop nuclear energy. Around 60 nations, including Syria and Libya, are attending a conference on harnessing nuclear energy in Paris
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IMMIGRATION: Moroccan domestic violence victim can return to France
France News Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:33:28 +0000
Speaking on International Women’s Day, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he would welcome back a Moroccan teen without papers (pictured) who was deported after she went to the French police to file a domestic violence complaint.
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY: Female candidates show their mettle ahead of regional elections
France News Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:46:59 +0000
A proud day for French President Nicolas Sarkozy after one of his female ministers won a karate championship and another busted a café where the owner let his customers smoke inside: good PR for the government on International Women’s Day.
FRANCE: Total announces closure of Dunkirk refinery
France News Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:32:22 +0000
French oil giant Total has announced the closure of its Dunkirk refinery but vowed to protect workers, for whom it plans restructuring measures including a new fuel depot and training centre.
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RFI - FRANCE: Freak snow storm covers southern France
France News Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:54:20 +0000
Eight of France's departments were placed on snow alert Monday morning, when an unusually late cold snap caused heavy snowfall in the south of the country.Authorities are advising people not to travel, after around 250 motorists had to be towed from snow-blocked roads.
French politician brings Paris glamour to Iraq vote
France News Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:45:59 +0000
<p>Rachida Dati, the first Muslim woman to hold a top job in the French government, brought a touch of Parisian glamour on Saturday to Iraq's elections with a stroll along the Tigris river in Baghdad.</p><p>Dati was in the Iraqi capital in her capacity as a European MP observing the elections to help ensure the second parliamentary vote since Saddam Hussein's ouster in 2003 is free and fair.</p>
Sarkozy announces loans for crisis-hit French farmers
France News Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:05:54 +0000
<p>French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Saturday an extra 800 million euros in subsidised loans for farmers hit by the financial crisis, taking to 1.8 billion euros a package for the sector.</p><p>"The money will be there to finance everything to allow you to tide over the financial crisis," he said at the Paris agricultural show during a round table meeting with farmers' unions.</p><p>"I will do for the French agriculture sector -- a strategic and key sector -- what we have tried to do for the financial crisis," he said.</p>
FRANCE: Prime minister attends mass for victims of storm Xynthia
France News Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:54:17 +0000
French Prime Minister François Fillon joined mourners at a mass in the cathedral of Luçon on Thursday and gave a brief speech in honour of the 53 people killed by last week’s storm Xynthia, 29 of whom died in the hard-hit Vendée region.
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ECONOMY: Sarkozy says state to lead French industrial renaissance
France News Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:31:06 +0000
France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy harked back to the best tradition of French dirigisme on Thursday as he unveiled policies aimed at tightening the government’s hold on state companies and reversing the decline of French industry.
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IRAQI ELECTIONS: Iraqis in France demand right to vote
France News Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:04:29 +0000
A lack of overseas polling stations in France is preventing roughly 7,000 Iraqi expats from participating in Iraq’s March 7 parliamentary elections. Some are ready to go to the Netherlands to have their vote counted.
Europe will argue for bluefin tuna trade ban
France News Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:06:58 +0000
<p>The king of Japanese sushi and sashimi may disappear from menus after Europe joined the United States on Wednesday in arguing for a ban on trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna.</p><p>The 27 European Union nations agreed, despite opposition from Mediterranean island Malta, to urge a United Nations body that lists endangered species to vote for a ban when it meets in Qatar, starting on Saturday.</p>
China to lead oil demand growth as OECD area struggles
France News Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:06:25 +0000
<p>China's hunger for oil is set to drive global demand in the coming years as consumption in the industrialized countries may not regain pre-economic crisis levels, experts say.</p><p>"Chinese demand will continue to grow at a relatively high rate," said Kefeng Yang of research firm IHS CERA, the organizer of an energy conference this week in Houston in the heart of the US oil industry.</p>
Ailing Cuban hunger striker refuses treatment again
France News Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:06:40 +0000
<p>A Cuban dissident journalist on a hunger strike for two weeks was diagnosed as suffering from heart arrhythmia and severe dehydration but again refused hospitalization, a spokesman said Wednesday.</p><p>Guillermo Farinas, 48, rejected a recommendation for his hospitalization made by physicians sent by the state, said Ismel Iglesias, a doctor who has been aiding the dissident told AFP by telephone from the city of Santa Clara.</p><p>Iglesias siad the two doctors sent by the government said Farinas was suffering from "heart arrhythmia and advanced dehydration."</p>
WTO chief holds talks with US officials, lawmakers
France News Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:06:23 +0000
<p>WTO chief Pascal Lamy was in Washington Wednesday for talks with US officials and lawmakers amid an uphill effort to wrap up the long-running Doha Round of global trade talks by this year.</p><p>Lamy met with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, a Treasury spokesman told AFP, but declined to provide details about their talks.</p><p>And, according to the Geneva-based World Trade Organization, Lamy is scheduled to hold separate talks with President Barack Obama's top trade official Ron Kirk and US lawmakers.</p>
Tuberculosis strikes hard among Canada's Inuit
France News Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:06:32 +0000
<p>Tuberculosis is ravaging Canada's Arctic with infections among Inuit peoples doubling since 2004 and rates now 185 times higher than non-natives, an indigenous group said Wednesday.</p><p>And the situation for northern natives who lacked a natural resistance to the disease when it was introduced in the mid-20th century, is worsening, said Gail Turner of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.</p><p>"Behind the high results," she told AFP, "are significant disparities in the health of Inuit and other Canadians and inequity in access to health care.</p>
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