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FRANCE: Socialist leader accused of hypocrisy over Roma expulsions
France News Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:19:43 +0000
French Socialist leader Martine Aubry, a vocal critic of the government’s policy of closing traveller camps and "repatriating", 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.
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.
FRANCE: Socialists wrap up summer conference with stinging attack on Sarkozy
France News Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:05:54 +0000
After years of bitter squabbling and three successive defeats in presidential elections, French Socialists wrapped up their summer conference with a united front and a defiant challenge to President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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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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German court fines lawyers for "absurd" appeal
France News Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:06:31 +0000
<p>Two lawyers who repeatedly appealed minor traffic violations were fined and handed two-month bans by Germany's highest court on Thursday for making "absurd and abusive accusations" in their defence.</p><p>The Bavaria-based lawyers, who cannot be named under German law, faxed a 1,182-page appeal to the Constitutional Court accusing lower courts of a "maddening ignorance of constitutional rights."</p>
US jobless claims fall for second straight week
France News Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:26:12 +0000
<p>The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell faster than expected last week, extending a two-week decline, government data showed Thursday.</p><p>Claims for the week to August 28 fell to 472,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 478,000, the Labor Department said.</p><p>The latest figure was better than most economists' expectations of 475,000 new claims.</p>
Russia will not lift grain export ban now: Putin
France News Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:26:14 +0000
<p>Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would not lift its temporary ban on grain exports until after next year's harvest.</p><p>"I believe it's necessary to note that we will only be able to consider lifting the grain export ban after the next year's harvest has been reaped," Putin told a government meeting in televised remarks.</p><p>A record drought has destroyed a quarter of Russia's harvest this summer and Putin signed a decree in early August introducing a ban on grain exports from August 15 to December 31.</p>
Cairn says Greenland ops resume after protest
France News Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:06:15 +0000
<p>Scottish oil exploration group Cairn Energy said Thursday it had resumed operations on a rig off the coast of Greenland after Greenpeace ended a protest.</p><p>"Cairn can confirm that operations have started again on the Stena Don (oil rig), where safety remains Cairn's priority in this drilling exploration activity," the group said in a statement.</p><p>"The actions taken by Greenpeace remain a matter for the Greenlandic authorities."</p>
Iraqi army needs US help: commanders
France News Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:06:31 +0000
<p>Iraq cannot yet sustain its army despite having managed to quell a violent insurgency, US and local commanders told AFP, raising the prospect that American troops will stay on beyond 2011.</p><p>US military advisers described myriad inefficiencies and problems, from hospitals that lacked medics and dentists to byzantine processes that must be followed to request spare vehicle parts and other vital equipment.</p>
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