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Hostages, Militants Reported Dead In Algerian Assault

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - Jan. 19 (News) - Algerian special forces stormed a gas installation where militants were holding several hostages on Saturday, according to Algeria's state media. The reports claim 11 militants and seven hostages were killed during what is being described as a final assault to end the four-day crisis.

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French Protesters March in 'Resistance' to Austerity

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Kim Willsher - Oct. 01 (News Report) - Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to protest against the spread of economic "austerity" in France and Europe. Chanting "resistance, resistance", the crowds had been rallied by around 60 organisations, including the leftwing Front de Gauche and the French Communist party, which oppose the European budget treaty. "Today is the day the French people launch a movement against the politics of austerity," said the Front de Gauche president, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

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Charlie Hebdo's Muhammad cartoons: a headache for Hollande?

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Bastien Inzaurralde - Sep. 20 (News Analysis) - The French newspaper's publication of new cartoons of the prophet Muhammad could shake French President François Hollande's standing, both domestically and abroad.

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WikiLeaks expose corruption as France Bans Monsanto’s GMO Maize

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

DigitalJournal.com - By Anne Sewell - Jun. 07 (Opinion) - Coming soon after France bans GMO maize, WikiLeaks cables expose details of 'military-style trade wars' against countries who reject Monsanto GMOs.

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G8 leaders end summit with pledge to keep Greece in eurozone

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Ewen MacAskill - May. 20 (News Report) - US and France succeed in putting promotion of growth at top of communique despite Germany's resistance to stimulus package Barack Obama and the other G8 leaders wrapped up their negotiations on the European crisis at Camp David on Saturday with a pledge to keep Greece in the eurozone and to promote growth. The communique, which had the growth promise at the top, represents a victory for Obama and the new French president, François Hollande, over German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who has resisted calls for a stimulus package. But it may be shortlived. The communique was short in detail and Merkel could re-establish her dominance next week at an informal European meeting. The eight leaders meeting at the US presidential retreat in Maryland issued a communique declaring in its opening paragraph: "Our imperative is to promote growth and jobs." It added: "The global economic recovery shows signs of promise, but significant headwinds persist. Against this background, we commit to take all ...

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Those Revolting Europeans

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - May. 06 (Opinion) - The French are revolting. The Greeks, too. And it's about time.

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Hollande Ousts Sarkozy in French Presidential Election

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Steven Erlanger, Nicola Clark - May. 06 (News Report) - François Hollande swept into office on Sunday, becoming the first Socialist to be elected president of France since François Mitterrand left office in 1995. Mr. Hollande’s campaign promised a kinder, gentler, more inclusive France, but his victory over President Nicolas Sarkozy will also be seen as a challenge to the German-dominated policy of economic austerity in the euro zone, which is suffering from recession and record unemployment.

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Austerity Is So Wrong!

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Paul Krugman - May. 06 (Opinion) - In a new book, End This Depression Now!, Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman says the current economic problems can be fixed both more easily and more quickly than anyone imagines. But politicians’ desire to slash spending is deeply destructive, and he details why austerity is so appealing even to Very Serious People—and why it’s such a bad idea.

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Is US a model for austerity-wary Europe?

Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Laurent Belsie - May. 05 (News Analysis) - America's poor jobs report has rattled world markets. Germany's DAX index fell 2 percent Friday. Wall Street saw its worst week of the year, as slowing job growth stoked fears that recovery in the United States is faltering. Last month, the economy added only 115,000 jobs.

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French presidential campaign ends with Sarkozy trailing

Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Edward Cody - May. 05 (News Report) - France wound up a long and rancorous presidential campaign Friday with opinion polls predicting victory for Francois Hollande, the Socialist candidate who promises economic stimulus measures to soften the austerity cutbacks imposed by President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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Sarkozy, Hollande set to advance in French runoff election

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Edward Cody - Apr. 22 (News Report) - Francois Hollande, the Socialist candidate for president of France, staked a clear lead over President Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday’s first round of voting, according to exit polls, and headed into a May 6 runoff election favored to become the country’s next chief executive. The exit poll estimations, which have been reliable in past elections, indicated Hollande won more than 28 percent of the first-round vote compared to 25 to 27 percent for Sarkozy, giving the Socialist contender a momentum that commentators said will be hard to stop. Placing third was Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front, with up to 20 percent. The rest of the vote was spread among Jean-Luc Melenchon of the Leftist Front, with between 10 percent and 13 percent, and six other minor candidates.

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Monsanto Guilty Of Chemical Poisoning Of French Farmer

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Catherine Lagrange , Marion Douet - Feb. 14 (News Report) - ..A French court on Monday declared U.S. biotech giant Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer, a judgment that could lend weight to other health claims against pesticides. In the first such case heard in court in France, grain grower Paul Francois, 47, says he suffered neurological problems including memory loss, headaches and stammering after inhaling Monsanto's Lasso weedkiller in 2004. He blames the agri-business giant for not providing adequate warnings on the product label. The ruling was given by a court in Lyon, southeast France, which ordered an expert opinion of Francois's losses to establish the amount of damages. "It is a historic decision in so far as it is the first time that a (pesticide) maker is found guilty of such a poisoning," François Lafforgue, Francois's lawyer, told Reuters.

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Germany’s Denial, Europe’s Disaster

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:20:53 -0800

New York Times - Nov. 30 (Opinion) - The only way to restore market confidence is with a real bailout fund financed in Europe.

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France, Islam and the banlieues: a debate on the place of Islam and class in the suburbs

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Michèle Tribalat, Gérard Mauger - Nov. 01 (Opinion) - In an effort to allay concerns about Islam in France, policymakers and analysts have either tried to play down its importance or sought to blend it into the landscape. Islam is often portrayed as an integral part of French history: its presence simply follows on from ancient history. The basis for this argument is shaky, for it refers to an era when Christendom – not yet referred to as the west – was in retreat, driven back by the force of Islamic arms.

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U.S. Stock Futures Drop as Europe Woos China for Bailout Fund

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By Adria Cimino - Oct. 31 (News) - U.S. stock futures fell, indicating the Standard & Poor's 500 Index may pare its biggest monthly rally since 1974, as investors awaited China's response to the European request for money to boost the bailout fund. Alcoa Inc., the largest U.S. aluminum producer, and General Electric Co. led declining shares in European trading. Futures on the S&P 500 expiring in December fell 0.9 percent to 1,269.4 at 8:50 a.m. in London. The S&P 500 advanced in the last four weeks and has climbed 14 percent this month. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average retreated 89, or 0.7 percent, to 12,079

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Court refuses extradition of suspect in genocide

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Scotsman - By Pierre-Antoine Souchard - Sep. 29 (News Report) - France cannot extradite Rwanda's former first lady to her homeland, where she is sought in connection with the African country's 1994 genocide, a Paris appeals court has ruled.

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Explosion at nuclear plant in southern France

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Jenny Barchfield - Sep. 12 (News Report) - An explosion at a nuclear waste facility in southern France killed one person and injured four on Monday. Authorities said there was no radioactive leak, but critics urged France to rethink its nuclear power in the wake of the catastrophe at Japan's Fukushima plant.

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Op-Ed Columnist: The Age of Outrage

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:56:47 -0700

New York Times - By By ROGER COHEN - Aug. 13 (Opinion) - In Europe, August morphed into the serious season and the beach lost out to the barricades.

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Lessons of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Bernard-Henri Lévy - Jul. 02 (Opinion) - The Strauss-Kahn affair is not over. For it to be over, the American system of justice must pursue its investigation and work to the very end. If it’s truly to be over, Dominique Strauss-Kahn must be granted not only his freedom, but—even more importantly—restoration of his honor. In other words, “the Strauss-Kahn affair” will continue to be regarded as such as long as it hasn’t been clearly established that there never was any affair at all—and that the plaintiff, not content to have lied about this or that aspect of her past, also lied in accusing the former head of the IMF of having raped her. And yet, given recent revelations, we can already draw a few lessons from what will ultimately—no doubt very soon—be known as the Strauss-Kahn non-affair.

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DSK Accuser's African Connection

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Christopher Dickey - Jul. 01 (Investigative Report) - pride of place goes to the photograph of Fofanah and Alpha Condé, who was elected last November as president of Guinea, the country from which DSK’s accuser immigrated and requested political asylum. Condé, as it turns out, also has extensive ties to major political players in France, including people close to—wait for it—both President Nicolas Sarkozy and Strauss-Kahn, who had been expected to be the incumbent’s main challenger in next year’s elections. You can see why the conspiracy-minded French find the case so fascinating.

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French Watchdog Reins In Media Coverage of IMF Chief

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Thomas Varela, Gabriele Parussini - May. 17 (News) - France's broadcasting watchdog called on the country's television channels to be extremely cautious in showing footage of International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn in handcuffs, a practice that contravenes French law.

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IMF chief arrested in alleged sex assault

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Edward Cody - May. 15 (News Report) - he head of the International Monetary Fund was charged early Sunday in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a housekeeper at a Manhattan hotel Saturday, a New York police spokesman said. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, who had been removed from a Paris-bound flight in New York minutes before takeoff Saturday, was questioned by the New York Police Department’s special victims office and arrested at 2:15 a.m. Sunday on charges of criminal sex act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment, a spokesman said.

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I.M.F. Head Is Arrested and Accused of Sexual Attack

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Al Baker, Steven Erlanger - May. 15 (Breaking News) - The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken off an Air France plane at Kennedy International Airport minutes before it was to take off for Paris on Saturday and arrested in connection with the sexual attack of a maid at a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the authorities said.

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The Coming Euro Crack-Up

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Weekly Standard - By Irwin M. Stelzer - May. 09 (News Analysis) - The “European project” won’t go quietly into the night. But it just might go noisily into the ashcan of history if the Germans decide they cannot convert the Greeks into hard-working, tax-paying euro-citizens worthy of continuing handouts. Or, at minimum, we might end up with a euro-nord and euro-sud, as Martin Feldstein once suggested.

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Werner Herzog Enters 'The Cave Of Forgotten Dreams'

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Terri Gross, Werner Herzog - Apr. 25 (Interview) - In 1994, three French cave explorers discovered hundreds of prehistoric paintings and engravings on the walls of the Chauvet Cave in southern France. Carbon dating has since shown that the depictions of rhinoceroses, lions, cave bears, horses, bison, mammoths and other animals are between 30,000 and 32,000 years old. That doesn't mean the ancient drawings are any less sophisticated than what artists create today, says filmmaker Werner Herzog. "Art ... as it bursts on the scene 32,000 years ago, is fully accomplished. It doesn't start with 'primitive scribblings' and first attempts like children would make drawings," Herzog says. "It's absolutely and fully accomplished." The acclaimed German director, who has produced, written and directed more than 40 films, gained exclusive access to the Chauvet caves. He tells their story and the story of the world's oldest cave paintings in The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a 3-D documentary film. "Since early adolescence, I have been fascinated by cave paintings," Herzog tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "It actually was my personal intellectual awakening ... and shook me to the core — seeing an image of a horse [from the] prehistoric Stone Age. I couldn't believe it." Part of Herzog's interest in the paintings, he says, is the knowledge that tens of thousands of years ago, humans had the instinct to make art in order to represent the world around them.

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