France24: Socialist presidential challenger François Hollande topped the first round of France’s presidential election on Sunday with 28.4 percent of votes, while incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy finished second with 25.5 percent, according to exit polls. Those figures set up a widely expected run-off between Sarkozy and the candidate of France’s main […]
France24: Despite fears of low turnout after a muted campaign, France’s Interior Ministry has reported strong participation in the first round of presidential polls. More. http://www.france24.com/en/20120422-france-voters-presidential-election-polling-station-first-round-arrondisement
By JEDDAH: IBRAHIM NAFFEE Minister of Higher Education Khaled Al-Anqari underscored the significance of promoting dialogue to achieve peaceful coexistence of peoples across the world. Describing dialogue as the ‘language […]
Source :thenewfederalist. eu The Toulouse killings revived the debate on Islam in Europe On 19 March, France woke up to the dreadful news that someone had killed three children (aged 3, 6 and 10 years old) and a teacher in a Jewish school in Toulouse. It soon appeared that the […]
France24. One of the highlights of incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy’s mega campaign rally in Villepinte on March 11 was a surprise appearance by one of France’s most famous first ladies –Bernadette Chirac. Minutes before Sarkozy delivered his keynote speech that day, Mrs. Chirac’s petite frame appeared on the massive stage that […]
France24. Former conservative French President Jacques Chirac and a number of his family members will vote for Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande in the forthcoming presidential election, according to media reports Tuesday. According to daily newspaper Le Parisien, Chirac’s daughter Claude, her husband Frederic Salat-Baroux and her former husband Thierry […]
Source:AsiaNews.it A great French Muslim philosopher asks whether salafist violence – like that which killed the children of Jewish school in Toulouse – is not a symptom of something deeply wrong with the Muslim tradition. A religion that has closed in on itself. To renew Islam today, the challenge of modernity […]
“France is the worst place in Europe to be a Muslim, because the government is so against us. And if Nicolas Sarkozy is re-elected, it can only get worse.” Ahead […]
France 24 France’s far-left presidential hopeful Jean-Luc Mélenchon drew crowds of tens of thousands at an outdoor rally in Toulouse on Thursday, where he called for a return to national sovereignty and told supporters that France should withdraw from NATO. Details: http://www.france24.com/en/20120406-french-far-left-rally-behind-anti-nato-melenchon-toulouse-hollande-sarkozy-election
By RFI French politicians are stigmatising Muslims, the leader of one of France’s major Islamic organisations said at the opening of its annual conference near Paris on Saturday. The government banned six foreign imams scheduled to address the meeting from entering the country. Muslims are hurt by some political leaders remarks […]
Rfi France. An auction of instruments of torture due to take place in Paris on Tuesday has been cancelled after protests from France’s culture minister and human rights campaigners. The planned sale was organised on behalf of the descendants of a former French public executioner, Fernand Meyssonnier, who died in […]
By GWYNNE DYER ARABNEWS After Mohamed Merah died in a hail of French police bullets last week, people who had known him talked about “a polite and courteous boy” who liked “cars, bikes, sports and girls.” His friends had trouble believing that he had murdered seven people, including three children, […]
Russian TV: Mohamed Merah, the notorious killer shot in a stand-off with police a week ago in Toulouse, is still stirring controversy in France. An ex-chief of the French spy […]
Credit: TOI Sarkozy to bar radical imams from entering France PARIS: France will bar radical Muslim preachers from entering the country to participate in an Islamic conference next month as part of a crackdown after shootings by an al-Qaida-inspired gunman, president Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday. Sarkozy, who has announced […]
By Rfi French energy giant GDF Suez says its plan to build hundreds of wind turbines off France’s Atlantic coast and in the English Channel would create 6,000 local jobs. The company is leading a consortium of bidders including Areva and Vinci for the contract to install 500 to 600 […]
(Reuters) – France will bar radical Muslim preachers from entering the country to participate in an Islamic conference next month as part of a crackdown after shootings by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman, […]
Global Post.Com: A French high school teacher faces disciplinary action after she urged students to observe a minute of silence for Mohammed Merah, the man who shot and killed three […]
France24. AP – In a dramatic end to a 32-hour standoff, a masked French SWAT team slipped into the apartment of an Islamist extremist Thursday, sparking a firefight that ended with the suspect jumping out the window and being shot in the head. Mohamed Merah, 23, was wanted in the deaths […]
Credit: Spiegel Germany oulouse Siege Over The man thought to be responsible for killing seven in a murder spree in southern France is dead, French Interior Minister Claude Guéant confirmed on Thursday. Mohamed Merah, who claimed he belonged to al-Qaida, had brought the country to a near standstill after killing […]
Credit: TOI PARIS: A gunman suspected of killing seven people in the name of al-Qaida, including three children at a Jewish school, said on Wednesday he would hand himself over to police to end an hours-long siege in southwestern France. About 300 police, some in bullet-proof body armour, cordoned off […]