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Mosque project stirs unease in French port city of Marseille
Marseille :: France | about 7 hours ago
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Notre Dame de la Garde, an elegant Roman Catholic basilica, has stood for 150 years on a promontory just south of Marseille's Old Port, looking down protectively as fishermen push out to the sea and symbolizing the irrepressible spirit of this fabled...
Tags: Marseille, Old Port, Muslim, France, French, Nourredine Cheikh, Jean-Claude Gaudin, Nicolas Sarkozy, Mosque, Religion Belief
France's crisis of national identity
Algiers :: Algeria | 1 day ago
Credibility Just before the France-Ireland football match in Paris, I met my charming, gentle, retired, 60-something, French neighbour on the stairs of our Paris apartment building. "No," he said. "I'm not watching the match...The team disgusts me because they are...
Tags: France-Ireland, Brown-White-Black France, Mr Sarkozy, Thierry Henry, French, Greater Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy, frenchness kids, world cup, black frenchness, Algeria, Algiers, France, Politics of France, Government of Andorra, Presidents of France, Grand Croix of the Lￃﾩgion d'honneur, Social Issues, Jacques Chirac, French people
Organised chaos: handling 2.5 million pilgrims
Mecca :: Saudi Arabia | 3 days ago
Credibility Dr. Mahmoud al-Srouji peers at a laptop computer screen showing technicolor images of a group of Indian pilgrims filing by, just off a flight from Mumbai in Jeddah airport's massive hajj terminal. "They don't know that we are already checking them," he...
Tags: French, Christian Nakhle, hajj terminal, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Hajj, King Abdulaziz International Airport, Incidents during the Hajj, Red Sea
Daniel Howden: It's really about Kigali getting back at Paris
Kigali :: Rwanda | 3 days ago
Credibility The 100 days of killings that seared this small, mountainous country into the global consciousness also destroyed its relationship with France. The new Tutsi-led government under Paul Kagame has blamed France for bolstering the Hutu regime, and accused...
Tags: France, French, Rwanda, Paris, Kigali, Paul Kagame, Interahamwe, Tutsi, Politics, Rwandan Genocide, Juvￃﾩnal Habyarimana, War Conflict
Estonia frets over Russia buying warship
Moscow :: Russia | 3 days ago
Credibility Estonian officials said that if Russia buys a French amphibious assault ship, Estonia should consider taking security measures. The Mistral-class helicopter carrier ship, for which the French are asking between $600 to $700 million, is scheduled to arrive...
Tags: Russian, French, amphibious assault, St. Petersburg, navy ship, Russia, Moscow, South Ossetia war, Military of Russia, Russian Navy, Abkhazia, War Conflict, Politics, Caucasus, Western Asia, Republics, Mistral, Saint Petersburg, Moscow Kremlin, Black Sea Fleet, Mistral class amphibious assault ship, Neva River, RIA Novosti, Amphibious assault ship, Helicopter carrier, Estonia
Egypt-Algeria: when fair play died
Cairo :: Egypt | 3 days ago
Credibility The first rock was thrown with such force that it traveled through the bus, smashing windows on its way in and out, Michel Gaillaud, a French doctor, recalls. Panicked, he and the football players he treats dived for cover. "We were bombarded with stones,"...
Tags: Egypt-Algeria, Egyptians, FIFA, French, France, world cup, Cairo, Khaled Lemmouchia, Michel Gaillaud, Egypt, allnews
All Blacks: Adam is the first man to pick
Cape Town :: South Africa | 4 days ago
Credibility If this is a selection tour, as the All Black coaches say it is, then their job this week is not going to be terribly hard. There are, injuries depending, just two positions where there is need for debate...For all the angst and frustration there has...
Tags: All Blacks, Adam Thomson, Jerome Kaino, French, South Africa, Cape Town, New Zealand national rugby union team, Thomson, Jerry Collins, Richie McCaw, Thierry Dusautoir, allnews
Parti Quebecois wrap up meeting with promise to promote French language
Montreal :: Canada | 4 days ago
Credibility The Parti Quebecois is promising to beef up the province's French language charter if it ever gets back to power. Wrapping up a two-day meeting, Leader Pauline Marois ripped the Liberal government for doing nothing to stem the erosion of French language,...
Tags: Parti Quebecois, Pauline Marois, Montreal, French, Canada, Marois, Parti Quￃﾩbￃﾩcois, Charter of the French Language, Quebec, French Quebecers, Universitￃﾩ Laval alumni, Language policy, Politics, Dorion, Reasonable accommodation, Parti Quￃﾩbￃﾩcois leadership election, Sylvain Simard, Social Issues
How Asterix melted Swiss cheese and hearts
Fribourg :: Switzerland | 4 days ago
Credibility As cartoon hero Asterix hits 50, swissinfo.ch takes a nostalgic look at the plucky little Gaul's sojourn in Switzerland. As expected, the 16th of 34 adventures pokes gentle fun at national stereotypes, from banking secrecy and an obsession with cleanliness...
Tags: René Goscinny, Switzerland, Asterix, Obelix, Pascal Siffert, French, Albert Uderzo, Fribourg, Asterix Versus Caesar, Humour in Asterix, Asterix films, Dogmatix
The guru with a gift for brainwashing
Oxford :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility Thierry Tilly looks like a geography teacher or a chartered accountant, or a French version of Bill Gates. He claims, variously, to be a Nato "master-spy", a confidant of presidents and prime ministers, a financial genius, a 21st-century representative...
Tags: Thierry Tilly, M. Marchand, Oxford Garden Company, Oxford Eight, France, Charles-Henri de, French, Guillemette, Knights Templar, Britain, United Kingdom, Oxford, Novellas, Tilly, Marchand
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