Trial starts diving into France’s homegrown jihadi violence
Source: Associated Press By PHILIPPE SOTTO PARIS (AP) — More than five years after a French-Algerian extremist killed three children and a teacher at a Jewish school and three soldiers […]
France, “in a state of war”, to vote on anti-terrorism law
Reuters International This content was published on October 3, 2017 1:21 PMOct 3, 2017 – 13:21 FILE PHOTO: French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb speaks to the media outside the Saint-Charles train station after French soldiers shot and killed a man who stabbed two women to death at the main train […]
Vegetative-state patient responds to therapy
Source: BBC News By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online Image copyrightCORAZZOL ET ALImage captionTests show the man’s brain activity before (L) and after (R) the treatment A man […]
How France Is Making Libya Worse
Macron Is Strengthening Haftar By Jalel Harchaoui On July 25, at peace talks in Paris convened by French President Emmanuel Macron, the leaders of Libya’s two main factions—Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj of the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli and Marshal Khalifa Haftar of the self-styled Libyan […]
The 4 American Tourists Attacked With Acid in France Are Boston College Students
Source: Time BY Jennifer Calfas Sep 17, 2017 The Four American tourists attacked with acid in France on Sunday are all female Boston College students in their early 20s, according to the Associated Press. The […]
‘Anti-Semitic’ gang robbed Paris Jewish family
Source: BBC News French police are trying to find a gang who took a Jewish family hostage in their suburban Paris home, in what is seen as an anti-Semitic attack. […]
Macron vows to fight ‘Islamist terror’
Source: Dawn Fighting “Islamist terrorism” is France’s top foreign policy priority, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, vowing to make his country a leading power in an unstable, increasingly polarised world. “Providing security for our citizens means that the fight against Islamist terrorism is our first priority,” Macron told some 200 […]
Non-pork meals must be available for school lunch, rules French court
Guardian: A French court has ruled that schools should provide an alternative to pork school lunches in the interest of Muslim and Jewish children who do not eat the meat. Pork or nothing: how school dinners are dividing France Read more The decision came after a rightwing local authority stopped […]
France’s Charlie Hebdo publishes provocative Islam cartoon
Source: Yahoo News Paris (AFP) – French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo published a provocative front-page cartoon about Islam and the recent terror attacks in Spain on Wednesday, sparking fears that […]
‘I have wrinkles, he has freshness.
Source: Daily Mail The wife of French President Emmanuel Macron today spoke for the first time about being married to a man 25 years her junior, saying: ‘The only problem is that he’s younger than me’.In a brutally honest interview, 64-year-old Brigitte Macron admitted that she was reminded of the […]
Glimpses into the life of a Global Nomad, Part Three
A look into the life of Rafiq A. Tschannen, Associate Chief Editor of the Muslim Times. (moving from Switzerland to France and then on to Pakistan) Part Two ended with […]
Muslim woman wearing burkini kicked out of pool in France, told to pay cleaning fees
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL A Muslim woman wearing a burkini who went to a community pool in Marseille, France was told to leave the pool and pay fees to clean the […]
France wildfires force mass evacuation
Source: BBC Wildfires in south-eastern France have forced the evacuation of 10,000 people overnight, officials say. Hundreds of firefighters have been deployed to battle the fires near Bormes-les-Mimoses, in the country’s Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. France earlier asked its EU neighbours for more help fighting the fires. Some 4,000 hectares (15.4 […]
In France, murder of a Jewish woman ignites debate over the word ‘terrorism’
Source: The Washington Post By James McAuley July 23 PARIS — What happened to Sarah Halimi resembles the plot of a horror film. In the early hours of April 4, the 65-year-old retired […]
It can be dangerous to have leaders with no experience of war – as Macron’s spat with his military chief shows
As David Cameron found when he was considering intervention in Libya, those who have experienced, or at least know about war, are generally warier about the prospect than those who have not, and more conservative in their assessment of what can be achieved Mary Dejevsky @IndyVoices 4 days ago 32 […]
Macron outshines Merkel as EU’s top diplomat
Source: The Local Germany has for years longed for a stronger French partner, but may have got more than it bargained for as the self-confident Emmanuel Macron takes Europe’s spotlight. Striking images from Paris this week offered signs of how Europe’s de-facto leadership has started to mutate in the two […]
‘Muslim believers say ‘one day this will all be ours’ and call it the Great Replacement’: French Archbishop says higher Muslim birth rate is changing the country
Luc Ravel said Muslims ‘tell you in a very calm way’ that ‘France will be theirs’ Term ‘Great Replacement’ has previously been used by writer Renaud Camus Ravel said abortion is ‘not only conceded but promoted’ and he ‘cannot accept it’ France’s Muslim population is about 4.71m, according to Pew […]
Muslim leaders begin European tour to protest against terror
Reuters International JULY 8, 2017 French-Jewish writer Marek Halter (2nd R), Imam Hassen Chalghoumi (L) and other Imams, are seen during the start of a European tour to the […]
France set to ban sale of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040
Source: BBC News France is set to ban the sale of any car that uses petrol or diesel fuel by 2040, in what the ecology minister called a “revolution”. Nicolas […]
Gunmen attack mosque in France, injuring eight
By Ray Downs | Updated July 3, 2017 French olice officers react after a shooting in which two police officer were killed along with their attacker and another police officer was injured in a terror attack on the Champs Elysees in Paris April 20. On July 2, gunmen reportedly opened […]