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By David at 10/18/2009 - 05:05
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By David at 11/13/2009 - 07:20
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Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban burqa in France.
"France is a country where there is no place for the burqa, where there is no place for the subservience of women," he said in a speech on French national identity.
France, home to Europe's biggest Muslim minority, has set up a special panel of 32 lawmakers to consider whether a law should be enacted to bar Muslim women from wearing the full veil. The country has had a long-running debate on how far it is willing to go to accommodate Islam without undermining the tradition of separating church and state, enshrined in a flagship. Sarkozy says all beliefs will be respected in France but says "becoming French means adhering to a form of civilization, to values, to morals." He also said that "France is a country where there is no place for the burqa."
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By David at 11/13/2009 - 06:59
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World champions South Africa will take on France at the Municipal Stadium TOULOUSE, France on Friday.
The Springboks last won on French soil in 1997, handing the home side a record 52-10 defeat in the national team's final game at the iconic Parc des Princes in Paris. There have since been three losses in France while the French have also beaten the Boks twice away, most recently in their last encounter in Cape Town in 2006 (36-26).
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By David at 11/11/2009 - 17:41
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"Every time a tournament comes round, (France) have all these world-class players and then a man who seems intent on messing them up," Dunne said in Wednesday's edition of the Guardian newspaper. "Over the last World Cups and European Championships, things have not run smoothly for France. They've always got through but maybe it's time that we put a stop to that.", said Ireland defender Richard Dunne. Dunne said he did not think Domenech was good enough to turn things around if Ireland won Saturday's first leg in Dublin. They meet again in at Stade de France next Wednesday. He accused Raymond Domenech of messing up a talented France team and said Wednesday he believes the coach could be the weak link when the two teams meet in the World Cup playoffs.
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By David at 11/07/2009 - 04:55
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Webcam for Disabled Child?
The parents plan webcam broadcast for daughter with cerebral palsy. When the parents recently decided to use webcam , they informed a nearby newspaper, hoping for a mention on the local pages. The story went national. The parents say their daughter will not be filmed in private moments, such as baths. The site http://doudouworld.com, in preparation for the webcam's installation, includes a warning about her seizures.
What do you think? Do the parents have the right to do it? Is it in the best interest of the child?
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By David at 11/03/2009 - 17:46
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Claude Lévi-Strauss (Brussels, 28 November 1908 – Paris, 1 November 2009) was a French anthropologist. The French intellectual was regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing the concept of structuralism — concepts about common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in a wide range of human societies. Defined as the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity, structuralism compared the formal relationships among elements in any given system.
Biography
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By David at 11/02/2009 - 17:52
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Marie Ndiaye won France's top literary award, the Prix Goncourt, on Monday, the first woman to do so since 1998. The winning piece is the "Three Strong Women," her moving tale of the struggles of women in Europe and Africa. The prize is only 10 euros ($14.80) in cash, but much more in publicity-generated sales. She was born in 1967 in Pithiviers, south of Paris, to a French mother and a Senegalese father. NDiaye now lives in Berlin.
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By David at 10/27/2009 - 16:44
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A Paris court convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud and fined it more than euro600,000 ($900,000) on Tuesday but stopped short of banning the group as prosecutors had demanded.
The group's French branch immediately announced it would appeal the verdict.
The court convicted the Church of Scientology's French office, its library and six of its leaders of organized fraud. Investigators said the group pressured members into paying large sums of money for questionable financial gain and used "commercial harassment" against recruits.
The group was fined euro400,000 ($600,000) and the library euro200,000. Four of the leaders were given suspended sentences of between 10 months and two years. The other two were given fines of euro1,000 and euro2,000.
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By David at 10/27/2009 - 16:41
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A Paris court sentenced a former interior minister to a year in prison on Tuesday and fined the son of the late President Francois Mitterrand for links to arms trafficking to Angola in a case that involved corruption at the highest levels.
The toughest sentences on Tuesday were handed to the two men accused of masterminding the trafficking of Soviet-made weapons to Angola during a civil war in the 1990s: Israeli billionaire Arkady Gaydamak and French businessman Pierre Falcone. Both were sentenced to six years in prison.
In a blow to an influential fixture in French politics, Charles Pasqua, a former interior minister, was sentenced to three years in prison, two of them suspended. He was convicted of influence peddling connected to the arms trafficking and fined euro100,000 ($148,690).
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By David at 10/22/2009 - 04:55
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A US lawyer filed suit against planemaker Airbus and many aerospace suppliers this week seeking unspecified compensation on behalf of survivors of eight of the 228 passengers who died when an Air France flight crashed.
The lawsuit said the plaintiffs, relatives of some of the dead from Air France Flight 447, have "suffered a loss of support" and other losses as a result of the deaths. The action was brought under the Illinois Wrongful Death Act and filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.
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By David at 10/19/2009 - 00:43
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La Tour d'Argent (The Silver Tower) is putting 18,000 bottles up for auction in December. These bottles were covered in a black fungus that looked like matted cat fur. The fuzzy fungus is nothing to worry about — it thrives on the fumes of such spirits and is easily wiped away.
La Tour d'Argent (The Silver Tower) is a restaurant in Paris France that dates from 1582, and said to have been frequented by Henri IV.
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By David at 10/19/2009 - 00:42
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According to AP, about 150 farmers blocked traffic and unloaded hay and tires onto the most famous shopping street in Paris. The protesters set the hay on fire before firefighters quickly extinguished the flames.
Grain farmers were staging nationwide protests to call attention to their debts and other difficulties that have mounted as food prices have fallen from record highs in 2007.
Protesters disrupted traffic on several highways, from Toulouse in southern France to Calais on the English Channel and Moselle in the northeast.
The press release of the FNSEA is as follows:
52 000 farmers rallied today throughout France. Nearly 7 000 Nearly 7 000
tractors and 1 000 animals participated in these gatherings. tractors and 1 000 animals participated in. these gatherings. Mobilization is the mobilization was
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By David at 10/16/2009 - 05:49
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A France Telecom SA employee killed himself Oct 15, 2009, the 25th worker at Europe’s third-largest phone company to commit suicide since February 2008.
The 48-year-old engineer died in his home in Brittany, north-west France, spokesman Bertrand Deronchaine said by phone. The man had been on a one-month medical leave from his position at a research-and-development center. The death is the first since Chief Executive Officer Didier Lombard announced changes this month aimed at cementing a “new social contract.”
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By David at 10/16/2009 - 05:44
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President Nicolas Sarkozy has come to the defense of his son, denying in an interview made public Thursday that he is behind the 23-year-old's much-criticized bid for a high-profile job.
"Who is being targeted in this controversy? It's not my son, it's me," Sarkozy said in an interview to appear in Friday's daily Le Figaro.
Jean Sarkozy has no college degree and is still studying law but launched a political career last year, following in his father's footsteps.
However, a growing number of critics say Jean Sarkozy is too inexperienced to follow his father's footsteps to the next goal — heading an organization that runs La Defense, a complex of glassy skyscrapers on the western edge of Paris that is one of Europe's leading business districts.
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By David at 10/15/2009 - 05:23
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The investigation into the fate of Mehdi Ben Barka was supposed to take big step forward this month after international arrest warrants were issued for four suspects.
But French prosecutors suspended the warrants a day later. Ben Barka's son and the only surviving lawyer in the case claim connivance at the highest levels in France and Morocco for the suspension and for keeping the case a mystery all these years.
"The same complicity by which my father disappeared in Paris, this complicity continues to stop justice from doing its work," Bachir Ben Barka said on France-Info radio. "Truth always frightens."
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By David at 10/15/2009 - 05:22
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According to Times, the Italian paid bribes. (The Italian denied it)
The Taliban and the insurgent Hezb-i-Islami faction claimed responsibility for the attack.
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By David at 10/10/2009 - 06:30
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Sex scandal of Frédéric Mitterrand
On October 5th 2009 Marine Le Pen of the French National Front Party quoted sections of the autobiography on French television, she accused him of having sex with underage boys and also of "sex tourism".
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By David at 10/10/2009 - 06:23
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The physicist, who was affiliated with an outside institute, has been assigned to analysis projects at the laboratory since 2003. He was one of more than 7,000 scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest atom smasher, said the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN. The scientist, arrested in France, is suspected of involvement with Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, a French official said Friday. The North African group regularly targets Algerian government forces and occasionally attacks foreigners.
The physicist had no contact with anything that could be used for terrorism, CERN said in a statement.
"None of our research has potential for military application, and all our results are published openly in the public domain," the statement said.
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By David at 10/07/2009 - 17:02
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What are you thinking when they fired on the mighty French navy vessel?
France is a key member of the EU's naval mission, Operation Atalanta, fighting Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. It has aggressively tracked and caught suspected pirates and handed over at least 22 to Kenya. An additional 15 suspects were brought to France for prosecution after allegedly seizing boats belonging to French nationals.
Early Wednesday, Somali pirates in two skiffs fired on a French navy vessel after apparently mistaking it for a commercial boat, the French military said. The French ship gave chase and captured five suspected pirates. One skiff fled, and La Somme pursued the second one in an hour-long chase.
No one was wounded by the volleys from the Kalashnikov rifles directed at La Somme, a 3,800-ton refueling ship, French military spokesman Rear Adm. Christophe Prazuck said.
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By David at 10/05/2009 - 16:15
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France -- which was not part of the top 10 last year – moved up three places to number 8. This year's index was based on data from 2007 and does not take into account the impact of the global economic crisis.
Afghanistan, which returns to the list for the first time since 1996, is the only Asian country among the bottom ten which also include Sierra Leone in the 180th spot, just below the Central African Republic.
The top ten countries listed on the index are: Norway, Australia, Iceland, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, Switzerland and Japan.
France
The Human Development Index - going beyond income
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By David at 09/27/2009 - 06:19
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France gives Bardot 1st exhibit
BRIGITTE Bardot, the 1950s sex goddess who became a feminist icon and symbol of sexual liberation, turns 75 on Monday with her native France at her feet and a very first exhibition in her honour. The Paris show gathering some 2,000 photos, films and mementos - few of them hers - spans B.B.'s life and times from her teens, when she rocketed to stardom, to her retirement aged just 39 in 1973.
They include portraits by Andy Warhol on loan from her third husband, millionaire German playboy Gunter Sachs, and the gingham wedding dress she wore for husband number two, Jacques Charrier, which made country-bumpkin pink gingham stylish worldwide.
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By David at 09/25/2009 - 20:25
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This morning President Obama was joined by French President Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Brown in taking a harsh tone towards the Iranian Government's behavior:
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good morning. We are here to announce that yesterday in Vienna, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France presented detailed evidence to the IAEA demonstrating that the Islamic Republic of Iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility near Qom for several years.
Earlier this week, the Iranian government presented a letter to the IAEA that made reference to a new enrichment facility, years after they had started its construction. The existence of this facility underscores Iran's continuing unwillingness to meet its obligations under U.N. Security Council resolutions and IAEA requirements. We expect the IAEA to immediately investigate this disturbing information, and to report to the IAEA Board of Governors.
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By David at 09/25/2009 - 05:47
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Giscard wrote his first romantic novel, published on October 1, 2009 in France, entitled The Princess and The President. It tells the story of a French head of state having a romantic liaison with a character called Patricia, Princess of Cardiff. This fuelled rumours that the piece of fiction was based on a real-life liaison between Giscard and Diana, Princess of Wales. He later stressed that the story was entirely made up and no such affair had happened. The book is a bold venture for the 83-year-old Giscard d'Estaing whose stiff, pompous "au revoir" to the nation upon his defeat to Francois Mitterrand in 1981 remains the stuff of comedy routines.
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By David at 09/23/2009 - 04:53
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In 2004, French judges were given a list by an anonymous source containing the names of politicians and others who, it was alleged, had deposited kickbacks from a 1991 arms sale to Taiwan into secret accounts at Clearstream, a private bank in Luxembourg. The most prominent name on the list was that of Nicolas Sarkozy, Villepin's rival for power in the UMP. The list was later shown to be fraudulent, a discovery Villepin kept from the public for 15 months at a time when the two men were vying for party supremacy. Meanwhile, the source of the list was later revealed to be a longtime associate of Villepin's, one Jean-Louis Gergorin, an executive at EADS. Critics claimed that Villepin, perhaps with the support of then-president Jacques Chirac, had tried to defame his rival. Sarkozy, in turn, filed a suit against whoever was behind the creation of the Clearstream list.
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