Rfi France. Any French citizen who pays one euro and declares a commitment to left-wing ideals will be able to vote in next month’s primaries and tonight the potential candidates will outline their positions in a carefully stage-managed exercise. It was widely assumed that former IMF boss Dominique […]
Source: Times of India MARSEILLE (FRANCE): A furnace exploded at the Marcoule nuclear waste treatment site in southern France on Monday, killing one person, but there was no leak of radioactive material outside the furnace, France’s ASN nuclear safety watchdog said. Four other people were injured, one seriously, in […]
By Clea Caulcut. There is controversy following government plans to hand over a large disused warehouse in northern Paris to local muslim leaders to use for prayers. Up until now the shortage of prayer space in the French capital has forcedmany Muslims to pray in the street. Ref: http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20110908-controversy-over-places-pray-muslims
By Nicola Fathers France has one of the highest birth rates in Europe. But it appears that many pregnant foreign women in France are apprehensive about giving birth in their adopted country. A midwife at a Paris birthing centre says the centre was established due to dissatisfaction at France’s “interventionist” […]
“I quickly grabbed my camera and put it on a tripod by the window,” said the 31-year-old photographer who caught the moment the Eiffel Tower appeared to be struck by lightning. The photo, taken from his apartment window last year, surfaced this week and won the Office du Tourisme de Paris […]
“If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and outstanding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad?” Alphonse de Lamartine Almost every learned Muslim has read or heard and admired the above words, but few would today, […]
Paris Match: 24/08/011 Naseer, 52 ans, en est convaincu: l’islam est une religion de paix. Il est pakistanais et missionnaire de la communauté Ahmadiyya, une branche modérée et pacifiste persécutée au Pakistan. Seulement mille adhérents sur le territoire. Nassir est un musulman heureux: «Nous sommes respectés, nous appliquons vos lois […]
BRUSSELS – French President Nicolas Sarkozy will make a brief stopover in Beijing to meet his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on Thursday. The two are expected to discuss ways to solve the recent turbulence in global financial markets and find an end to the economic recession. Sarkozy is adding the […]
Rfi France. Diallo’s lawyer says he expects the prosecutors to announce that they will drop all or some of the charges at the meeting, which comes the day before Strauss-Kahn is due to appear before a judge in a New York state court. The New York Post reported at the […]
Pravda Ru: Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey ………..let us see what the western corporate media is not saying. Let us try to forge a middle way between the myriad of conflicting evidence in the stories. Why then is NATO supporting terrorists? Why is NATO supporting those who have raped little girls? Why is […]
France24. By Tony Todd (text) A French businessman has set up a fund to pay fines for women who wear Islamic veils or the burqa in public “in whatever country in the world that bans women from doing so”. Rachid Nekkaz, 38, a real-estate businessman based in Paris, travelled to Belgium on Wednesday to pay […]
Source/Credit: Hudson New York Islamic mosques are being built more often in France than Roman Catholic churches, and there now are more practising Muslims in the country than practising Catholics. Nearly […]
Source: Spiegel International Germany and Egypt have long been at odds over the return of the famous bust of Nefertiti. Now documents found in archives show that the conflict was started by a Frenchman who had fought the Germans in World War I and considered them to be swindlers. He may have been […]
Rfi France: French growth will slow in 2012 to 1.9 per cent from 2.1 per cent this year, the report predicts. The French government’s 2012 forecast is 2.25 per cent growth. France is the eurozone’s second-biggest economy after Germany. “Progress is being made in fiscal consolidation but more efforts might […]
Rfi France. The markets are watching anxiously ahead of a meeting on Tuesday in Paris between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to discuss ways to try to resolve the eurozone debt crisis. For Details: http://www.english.rfi.fr/economy/20110816-sarkozy-and-merkel-meet-discuss-eurozone-debt-crisis
France24: AFP – Italy and France called Friday for emergency G7 talks and the EU said it is working “night and day” to ready new rescue funding as eurozone lending costs soared and stocks plunged on alarm over renewed global recession. As Europe scrambled to head off pressure on the single […]
france24: AFP – France on Monday said it had given Libyan rebels 259 million dollars (181 million euros) in frozen funds that used to belong to the regime of strongman leader Moamer Kadhafi. “The NTC (National Transitional Council) will now be able to use these funds for purchases of a […]
Source/Credit: Liberty Magazine: JULY / AUGUST 2011: Photo: Google-Images There is a new law in France forbidding women wearing full-face veils in public. The media has largely focused on the voices of protest from religious leaders and human rights advocates. Yet it’s important to realize that this law enjoys widespread popular support—not […]
Rfi. France: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has told RFI that its internal election on Saturday was an exercise in democracy. The previously banned group appointed three new senior figures for the organisation’s newly formed Freedom and Justice party. The Brotherhood says a new political “era” in Egypt should be inclusive and […]
France24: Despite a persistent negative stereotype about French hygiene practices – which at least one historian says has a ring of truth – a study has found that the French may actually be more fastidious than their European neighbours. If cleanliness is next to godliness, then the French – and […]