RFI: In a crime which calls to mind the film “The Godfather”, a gunman penetrated a hospital bedroom in Bastia in Corsica on Monday and tried to kill restaurateur Olivier Sisti, who was lying in bed trying to recover after a previous attempt to kill him a week ago. Details: […]
Rfi: Possibly the most glamorous local railway carriages in the world started operating on Wednesday between Paris and Versailles. They may look like any old beat-up railway train on the outside but inside they are decorated with reproductions of interiors from the royal Palace of Versailles. More: http://www.english.rfi.fr/visiting-france/20120516-louis-xiv-railway-carriages-take-paris-versailles-line
Arwa Al-Rikabi ARAB NEWS “Islam and Muslims are incompatible with rationality”…Who do you think said this? It sounds like something Geert Wilders (leader of Party of Freedom-Netherlands) or Nick Griffin (chairman of British National Party) would say, but it is the French Orientalist Ernest Renan who declared this in the […]
The British state-run broadcaster BBC has been caught passing off an old photo from Iraq in 2003 for the massacre in the Syrian town of Houla. In a report published […]
EU keen on Fiji sugar 13:10 Sun May 27, 2012 Permanent Secretary for Sugar Colonel Manasa VaniqiTaken from/By: FBC News Report by: Epeli Tukuwasa There is a likelihood that the European Sugar Market will extends it preferential agreement made with ACP Countries, including Fiji. This was revealed by the Permanent Secretary for […]
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Russian TV: Moscow’s mufti Albir Krganov has appealed to the capital’s Bureau for Human Rights over nationalistic slogans and graffiti which he says insult the feelings of believers and non-Russian […]
by Armando Mombelli, swissinfo.ch Many European countries are turning away from atomic power to focus on renewable energies. Switzerland’s water reservoirs could make up for future gaps in supply. Snowy […]
The police and public prosecution department are to launch an investigation into radical Islamic fringe group Sharia4Holland, Nos television reports. The probe has been prompted by statements made by one of the organisation’s members on Dam square in Amsterdam on Friday, during an improvised press conference. ‘This government is exploiting […]
A Nato air strike has killed eight members of a family in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia, local officials say. A provincial spokesman said a couple and their six […]
The panel chosen to appoint the next Archbishop of Canterbury is facing claims that it is dominated by clerics who reject orthodox teaching. The committee is unfairly balanced in favour […]
In a dramatic call for a rethink on the economy, the ex-Tory favourite claims rhetoric has not been matched by real action. Richard Branson, whose support for Tory economic plans […]
Nick Clegg has warned that the foundations of the eurozone are “weaker than anyone could have predicted”, as he urged Greece to stay in the euro and stick with its […]
Associated Press: VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s inquisition into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope’s butler, but the investigation […]
Spain’s stricken Bankia expects to sell off its vast portfolio of industrial holdings, that includes a stake in the parent company of British Airways and Iberia. Jose Ignacio Goirigolzarri, who […]
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed oil tycoon, has called on Britain to prevent Russian ofrficials suspected of human rights abuses or corruption from attending the Olympics. In a letter passed […]
As the financial crisis in Spain deepens, British expats are finding that life is becoming increasingly hard. It was sundowner time at the Cantina tapas bar in the picturesque village […]
David Cameron has suffered a fresh political blow as the Conservative Party chairman admits that she failed to declare thousands of pounds in rental income. Baroness Warsi became the first […]
Crisis-enduring Greece received a bit of hope for belated justice. A re-trial of Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates in Athens, the very city that sentenced him to death in 399 BC, […]
The Jersulem Post: Head of Germany’s Jews alarmed about negative view of Israel, rejection of responsibility toward Jewish state by Germans. Berlin. Dr. Dieter Graumann, the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told the mass circulation Bild newspaper on Thursday that he is “worried and sad” about […]