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B92
| over 1 year ago
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in France and the system for integrating them is "working more and more badly". Nicolas Sarkozy (Tanjug, file) In a TV debate, Sarkozy defended his plan to almost halve the...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday that he did not regret inviting Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to Paris for the 2008 Bastille Day parade, despite his later descent into violence. "I think I would invite him again," Sarkozy said...
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
Travel & Delicacy Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-03-07 12:20 PM French President Nicolas Sarkozy defended his record on tax reform, public finances, and unemployment on French TV channel France 2 in Paris. Sarkozy's presidency...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
France is to close its Damascus embassy on Tuesday, the French Foreign Ministry said, after President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the move to protest the Syrian regime's bloody crackdown on demonstrators. "The closure of the French embassy is planned...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
Thirteen French officers have been captured by the Syrian Army, according to Lebanon's Daily Star newspaper. It claims it received the information from a pro-Syrian Palestinian in Damascus. According to the source, the officers were taken captive in...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Turkey is considering whether to invite France to the next meeting of the "Friends of Syria" to be held in Istanbul this month as ties hit a low over a genocide bill, a Turkish diplomat said Monday. Istanbul will host the second "Friends of Syria"...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
A group of French officers was being held by Syrian authorities in Homs, a Lebanese newspaper has reported. A Damascus-based pro-Syrian Palestinian source told the Lebanese Daily Star that the 13 officers were being detained in a field hospital. It...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Air France cancelled its Paris-Damascus flight on Monday because of unrest linked to ongoing protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime. "Flight AF-570 is cancelled because of the situation in Syria," a spokesperson told AFP, saying...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Around 13 French officers are being held by Syrian authorities in Syria, sources have confirmed to The Daily Star. The group is in custody in the central city of Homs, a Damascus-based pro-Syrian Palestinian source in Beirut said. Sources said the...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
The Daily Star A man walks by wall painted in the colours of the opposition flag in Attarib, Aleppo province March 1, 2012...The Red Cross managed to deliver aid to some areas around the devastated Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs Sunday but was...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
India's Naxalite rebels need to be tackled with mainstream political activity, not just development ... Suggested Topics Red Cross teams remained locked out of the devastated Baba Amr district in Homs last night, as China, while still opposing...
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Kuwait Times
| over 1 year ago
Syrian artillery pounded the rebel city of Rastan yesterday, killing seven civilians, monitors said, as the Red Cross delivered aid to refugees who had fled the nearby battered quarter of Baba Amr. The aid distribution came as relief agencies waited...
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Mail Online UK
| over 1 year ago
Up to 2,000 Syrians have fled, according to the United Nations' refugee agency, as people try to escape the shelling and other violence. We had similar numbers in April 2011, but the flow of new arrivals had stabilised since then,' United Nations...
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The Age
| over 1 year ago
President Bashar al-Assad fought opposition forces in at least three cities, as the death toll mounted amid growing international pressure to end almost a year of violence. Soldiers battled in Homs after regaining control of the city's Baba Amro...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
The International Committee of the Red Cross is appealing to Syrian authorities to let the humanitarian organization deliver badly needed food and other aid to thousands of people stranded in the rebel stronghold of Homs. Activists say the...
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Al Jazeera
| over 1 year ago
49 Syrian forces have renewed their assault on Homs, bombarding more areas of the central city, activists say, with aid agencies still unable to gain access to neighbourhoods in desperate need of relief. Sunday's bombardment of Syria's third-largest...
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Canada.com
| over 1 year ago
Ochlik, who was 28, were there to meet his coffin as the regular Air France flight, via Amman, touched down at Charles de Gaulle airport in the French capital, an airport source said. Colvin and Ochlik were killed in a rocket attack in the rebel Baba...
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The Courier-Mail
| over 1 year ago
Syria after the regime of Bashar al-Assad sparked international outrage by blocking aid from reaching a battered neighbourhood in the flashpoint city of Homs. As more bloodshed was reported across Syria, Britain and Turkey joined the international...
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The Herald
| over 1 year ago
Syrian government forces took control of the neighborhood on Thursday after rebels fled the district under bombardment that activists said killed hundreds of people since early February...The Syrians said they were not letting the Red Cross into Baba...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
India's Naxalite rebels need to be tackled with mainstream political activity, not just development ... Suggested Topics The bodies of the Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik, killed 11 days ago by Syrian army...
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Belleville News-Democrat
| over 1 year ago
The Polish Foreign Ministry says the bodies of two foreign journalists recently killed in shelling while trapped in the besieged central Syrian city of Homs have left Syria on board a French plane to Paris. The Foreign Ministry in Warsaw said the...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Cemetery workers prepare graves for three Free Syrian Army fighters at Idlib in northern Syria. Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP Turkey has called the violence in Syria "a crime against humanity" on the scale of the 1990s bloodshed in the Balkans, as a Red...
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MarketWatch
| over 1 year ago
Members of the Syrian Red Crescent stand around caskets containing the bodies of journalists at Al-Assad University Hospital in Damascus on Saturday. Diplomats in Syria received the bodies U.S. journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi...
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The Age
| over 1 year ago
The Syrian regime is making different excuses to keep the Red Cross at bay. It alleges that the buildings and streets of Baba Amr are infested with booby traps and that there are still pockets of resistance that must be eliminated. "This is untrue.
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The New York Times
| over 1 year ago
The journalists, Marie Colvin, an American who was a reporter for the Sunday Times of London, and Remi Ochlik, a French photographer, were killed during fierce shelling by the government of the Baba Amr district of Homs on Feb. 22, after a building...
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The Sun UK
| over 1 year ago
Veteran war reporter Marie Colvin, of the Sunday Times, and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in a rocket attack in the heavily bombarded Baba Amr neighbourhood of Homs. Their bodies were passed to the French ambassador and to a Polish...
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KSAZ
| over 1 year ago
Veteran US war reporter Marie Colvin, of The (London) Sunday Times, and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in a rocket attack in Baba Amr on Feb. 22. Their bodies were taken to the French hospital in the Kassah neighborhood of Damascus, AFP...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
He placed his AK-47 on me, put his hand on my head and said a prayer. Wounded French journalist Edith Bouvier feared her attempt to escape from Homs had ended inside a dark, 3-km tunnel that rebels were using to supply the besieged Baba Amro district...
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Daily News & Analysis
| over 1 year ago
Diplomats in Syria on Saturday received the bodies US journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik , who were killed last month during the shelling of the Baba Amro district of the city of Homs . A Reuters witness said the diplomats,...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
The bodies of two Western journalists killed in Syria were handed over to the French ambassador and to a Polish diplomat in Damascus on Saturday, an AFP correspondent reported. Veteran US reporter Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times and French...
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Kuwait Times
| over 1 year ago
Syrian forces pounded the battered city of Homs yesterday and blocked aid reaching civilians stranded for weeks without food and fuel in the former rebel stronghold, activists and aid workers said. The renewed government assault came a day after UN...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
Activists and medical workers say forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad fired mortars into at least four neighborhoods across Homs early Saturday. The number of injured is unknown. Elsewhere in Homs, the Red Cross says Syrian authorities are...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Staff and agencies Free Syrian Army in Homs earlier this week. There have been reports that Assad's forces have been arbitrarily executing civilians since the rebels withdrew. Photograph: Reuters Syria is still preventing the Red Cross from reaching...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
Arrangements are being made for the repatriation of a newspaper journalist killed in Syria after her body arrived in Damascus. Acclaimed war reporter Marie Colvin, who is American-born and wrote for The Sunday Times, and French photographer Remi...
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Denver Post
| over 1 year ago
Aid workers were blocked by Syrian authorities from entering the shattered Baba Amr neighborhood in the central city of Homs on Friday with desperately needed supplies, Red Cross officials said. Jakob Kellenberger said in a statement from Geneva. "We...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| over 1 year ago
Syrian authorities Friday blocked without explanation an officially sanctioned Red Cross convoy laden with food and medical supplies from entering a devastated neighborhood in the central city of Homs, one day after the army overwhelmed the main...
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Hindustan times
| over 1 year ago
Syrian forces seemed to be directly targeting journalists in Homs, wounded French reporter Edith Bouvier and photographer William Daniels said on Saturday, after escaping the beseiged city. "There were at least five successive explosions, very near.
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Los Angeles Times
| over 1 year ago
McDonnell and Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times Reporting from Beirut Syrian authorities blocked an aid convoy from entering the former rebel enclave of Baba Amr in the city of Homs, the Red Cross said Friday, as opposition activists alleged that...
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International Herald Tribune
| over 1 year ago
The journalists, Edith Bouvier, 31, and William Daniels, 34, were met at a military airport here in Villacoublay, near Paris, by their families and President Nicolas Sarkozy. I want to pay homage to the courage of Edith Bouvier and the chivalrous...
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KSAZ
| over 1 year ago
Jakob Kellenberger said in a statement. "We are staying in Homs tonight in the hope of entering Baba Amr in the very near future." Syrian Red Crescent convoys were prevented from entering Baba Amr, once a rebel stronghold and now under the control of...
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ITN
| over 1 year ago
The International Committee of the Red Cross said the bodies of the Sunday Times reporter and French photographer Remi Ochlik, who were killed in a rocket attack in the city of Homs, were en route to the Syrian capital. It comes as two French...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Video footage shown on Syria TV is said to show damaged buildings in the Baba Amr neighbourhood of Homs. Photograph: Reuters Syrian authorities have blocked the Red Cross from entering the Baba Amr district of the city of Homs, where civilians have...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Le Figaro journalist Edith Bouvier is carried into an ambulance after the plane carrying her and French photographer William Daniels landed outside Paris Photograph: Jacques Demarthon/AFP/Getty Images The injured French journalist Edith Bouvier was...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Two French journalists evacuated from Syria's battered city Homs arrived Friday at a military airport near Paris after escaping the besieged protest hub where two of their colleagues were killed. A plane transporting wounded reporter Edith Bouvier,...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Syrian troops shelled the rebel stronghold in Homs for the 22nd straight day, after a pause allowed relief workers to evacuate some civilians, monitors said. March 2 (UPI) -- Russia is not obligated by treaty to intercede militarily should Syria be...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Paris prosecutors on Friday opened a preliminary murder probe into an attack on a media center in Syria's Homs in which a French photographer was killed and a French journalist wounded. The February 22 rocket attack in Homs' Baba Amr district killed...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
Britain is demanding that Syria's Bashar Assad face a war crimes tribunal for what David Cameron describes as butchering his own people. As London seeks to ramp up pressure on the Syrian government, doubts rise over the opposition's victim status. ...
