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FRANCE: Country faces day of strikes and protests over pension reform
France News Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:44:36 +0000
French unions have staged a day of strikes and estimate 2.5 million people took to the streets to protest government plans to reform the pension system. The government says there were 1.12 million protesters across France.
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INTERNET: French president is butt of new joke on Google
France News Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:24:38 +0000
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is the latest political to be "Google Bombed". Just type in the French word for a**hole, "trou du cul," to see the president’s Facebook page come up as the number one search result.
FRANCE: Can France really afford another strike?
France News Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:37:10 +0000
From the beaches to the streets, the French have ended one annual ritual – their month long holiday in August - just in time to begin another: striking.
FRANCE: Barroso calls for respect for minorities in wake of expulsions
France News Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:08:44 +0000
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said that the human rights of all EU citizens and minorities must be respected in a speech to the EU parliament on Tuesday in the wake of French moves to expel more than 1,000 Roma in the past month.
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FRANCE: Socialist leader accused of hypocrisy over Roma expulsions
France News Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:43:58 +0000
French Socialist leader Martine Aubry, a vocal critic of the government’s policy of closing traveller camps and "repatriating" their non-French inhabitants, faces accusations of hypocrisy after ordering camps closed in Lille, where she is mayor.
FRANCE: Friendly fire in Afghanistan injured French soldiers, says inquiry
France News Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:51:35 +0000
France's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that three French soldiers injured last month in an operation in Afghanistan had in fact been hit by friendly fire, due to "a series of misunderstandings".
FRANCE: Police search home of L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt
France News Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:42:15 +0000
French police have searched the home of France's richest woman, the billionaire L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, over ongoing allegations a Parisian society photographer took advantage of her to get written into her will.
FRANCE: 'Mr Perfect' casts pall over Sarkozy's 'irreproachable Republic'
France News Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:18:07 +0000
The storm engulfing a key ally of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has revived widespread cynicism in a country accustomed to politico-financial scandals, and undermined Sarkozy’s efforts to give his administration a cleaner image.
MEDIA: 'Prison Valley' triumphs at 2010 Web Documentary Award
France News Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:31:57 +0000
The second FRANCE24-Radio France International Web Documentary Award has been won by “Prison Valley”, a powerful production created by French journalists David Dufresne and Philippe Brault.
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IRAN: Govt slams media for calling France's first lady a 'prostitute'
France News Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:51:45 +0000
Iran's foreign ministry on Tuesday criticised an Iranian hardline media outlet for calling French first lady Carla Bruni a "prostitute" after she expressed support for an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning.
DIPLOMACY: France, Egypt want Med Union summit to underpin Mideast talks
France News Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:13:42 +0000
The presidents of France and Egypt met on Monday in Paris to discuss how a planned November summit of the Mediterranean Union could contribute to a Middle East peace accord after the resumption of direct Israeli – Palestinian talks.
FRANCE: New probe into minister’s role in Bettencourt scandal
France News Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:23:23 +0000
A French prosecutor has launched a new inquiry into Labour Minister Eric Woerth's role in the tax affairs of a L'Oreal heiress and allegations that he was treated with favouritism in a land deal. Woerth was cleared in the L'Oreal affair in July.
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FRANCE: France to tackle student housing crisis with… shipping containers
France News Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:42:54 +0000
Taking inspiration from their Dutch neighbours, French officials have inaugurated 99 refashioned shipping containers in a novel approach to solving the chronic lack of housing for university students.
AUSTRALIA: French “Spiderman” arrested in Sydney after scaling tower
France News Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:26:04 +0000
Famed stuntman Alain Robert climbed his way up another giant skyscraper on Monday. But unlike the fictional Spiderman who expertly evades the police, law enforcement was waiting for Robert at the top and took him in to custody.
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Iglesia wants to 'exorcise' Spain's past with 'Sad Trumpet'
France News Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:06:17 +0000
<p>With his dark comedy "A Sad Trumpet Ballad," screened Tuesday at the Venice film festival, Alex de la Iglesia said his aim was to "exorcise" the enduring pain of the Spanish Civil War.</p><p>The love story in a zany circus setting is "an exorcism of anguish through humour, irony and comedy mixed with the noir genre so everything can have a proper burial," said Iglesia, whose 1995 horror comedy "The Day of the Beast" won cult status in Spain.</p><p>"This is a love story, a crazy, ruthless, wild kind of love," Iglesia told a news conference.</p>
Two US soldiers killed in northern Iraq: spokesman
France News Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:06:33 +0000
<p>Two American soldiers were killed in an "incident" in northern Iraq on Tuesday, a US army spokesman told AFP, just one week after Washington officially ended its combat operations there.</p><p>"There was an incident that resulted in casualties to US forces," Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Allen said, adding that two soldiers were killed.</p><p>Allen declined to say where in the north of the country the two were slain, and did not specify how.</p>
Access to clean water down due to urbanisation: UN
France News Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:46:31 +0000
<p>Global efforts to improve access to drinking water have been hampered by rapid urbanisation, with the proportion of people in urban areas with access actually declining, according to UN figures presented at a conference in Stockholm this week.</p><p>"In cities, there are today more people suffering from a poor and unsatisfactory access to safe water and sanitation than at the end of the 20th century," Gerard Payen, who heads up the International Federation of Private Water Operators (AquaFed), said in a statement presenting the UN data at the World Water Week in the Swedish capital.</p>
Slovakia down Hiddink's Russia
France News Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:46:53 +0000
<p>Slovakia beat Russia 1-0 here Tuesday to make it two wins from their first two Euro 2012 qualifiers to leave them with an early stranglehold on Group B.</p><p>Fenerbahce midfielder Miroslav Stoch was the man of the match, scoring the decisive goal in the 27th minute.</p><p>Russia started in lively style, serving up four corners in the opening 10 minutes to keep Slovakia goalkeeper Jan Mucha on his toes.</p><p>But it was to no avail as the Slovaks defended stoutly, while Mucha was in command of his net stopping and deflecting everything coming his way.</p>
World's 'smallest' man tours Big Apple
France News Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:46:39 +0000
<p>A Nepalese teenager set to be declared the planet's smallest person got the big star treatment Tuesday on a tour of New York.</p><p>Crowds at Times Square jostled for a glimpse of Khagendra Thapa Magar who at 17 is the size of a baby and has stopped growing.</p><p>The Nepalese teen was making his first visit to New York as part of a publicity trip organized by the freak-show museum Ripley's Believe It or Not!</p><p>Wearing a white shirt and doll-sized pin-striped grey jacket, Magar smiled shyly, blinking at rows of cameras and the vast neon billboards lining Times Square.</p>
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