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France provides 550 mln euros in aid to Lebanon to boost economy Middle East

France provides 550 mln euros in aid to Lebanon to boost economy

April 6th, 20181649 France said on Friday it would provide Lebanon 550 million euros ($672 million) to support economic reforms in a country struggling from the impact of the war in neighbouring Syria. International donors are looking to hold Lebanon to promises of badly needed reforms at a Paris conference on Friday where the Beirut government hopes to...
French PM Edouard Philippe gets tough with SNCF Europe

French PM Edouard Philippe gets tough with SNCF

April 5th, 20181788 French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Thursday he would not back down on plans to overhaul the state-run SNCF railways, as the pro-reform CFDT labour union said it would take part in a further wave of strikes starting on Sunday. Philippe reiterated that he would not enter into talks over how much of the SNCF's debt of 46...
France hit by second day of rail chaos as strike bites Main

France hit by second day of rail chaos as strike bites

April 4th, 2018955 Millions of French commuters suffered a second consecutive day of travel chaos on Wednesday as striking rail workers locked horns with President Emmanuel Macron's government in a dispute over reforming the state-owned SNCF railways. Commuters in and around Paris pushed their way onto the few trains running during the rush-hour while...
Turkey says France "completely wrong" on Syria Turkey

Turkey says France "completely wrong" on Syria

March 30th, 20182802 A senior Turkish official said on Friday that a French pledge to help stabilise a region of northern Syria controlled by Kurdish-dominated forces amounted to support for terrorism and could make France a "target of Turkey". French backing for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), dominated by the Kurdish YPG militia, has angered...
France to spend 1.5 bn euros on artificial intelligence by 2022 World

France to spend 1.5 bn euros on artificial intelligence by 2022

March 29th, 20182934 France will invest 1.5 billion euros of public money into artificial intelligence research by 2022 in a bid to catch up with the United States and China and reverse a brain drain. The investment is part of an AI strategy laid out by President Emmanuel Macron at the elite College de France research institute in Paris, the French...
France's Sarkozy to face trial for corruption, influence peddling World

France's Sarkozy to face trial for corruption, influence peddling

March 29th, 20181419 Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will face trial over charges he misused his influence to secure leaked details of an inquiry into alleged irregularities in his 2007 election campaign, France's financial prosecutor said Thursday. Sarkozy's lawyers said he would appeal the decision to send him to court, initially reported by the...
Police arrest man who tried to run down soldiers in southern France (Update 2) World

Police arrest man who tried to run down soldiers in southern France (Update 2)

March 29th, 20181282 French police arrested a man suspected of driving a stolen car at a group of soldiers jogging outside their base in the foothills of the Alps on Thursday, a police source said. A spokesman for the army's land regiments based in the Isere region told Reuters soldiers had told police the driver first passed them shouting abuse in...
France honours soldier killed in Islamist attack Europe

France honours soldier killed in Islamist attack

March 28th, 20181489 President Emmanuel Macron led national tributes on Wednesday to the gendarme who switched places with a woman hostage during an attack on a supermarket in southern France last week and was killed by the Islamist gunman. Colonel Arnaud Beltrame's heroism has helped reassure a nation left shaken and in mourning after Moroccan-born...
Macron to continue dialogue with Turkey on Cyprus and Aegean Cyprus

Macron to continue dialogue with Turkey on Cyprus and Aegean

March 25th, 20184492 French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his willingness to continue the close dialogue with Turkey on the situation off Cyprus and in the Aegean, a statement released by his office said. Macron, in a telephone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, expressed "concern" over Turkey`s military offensive in Afrin,...
French gendarme who traded places with hostage is dead World

French gendarme who traded places with hostage is dead

March 24th, 20182494 The French gendarme who voluntarily took the place of a hostage during a deadly supermarket siege in southwestern France on Friday has died, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said. The gendarme, or policeman, had been left fighting for his life after being hit by gunfire inside the Super U supermarket in the town of Trebes before elite...
Three killed in French supermarket hostage-taking (Update 3) Europe

Three killed in French supermarket hostage-taking (Update 3)

March 23rd, 20182331 Three people were killed in south-western France on Friday when a gunman held up a car, opened fire on police and then took hostages in a supermarket, screaming "Allahu Akbar". Police later stormed the supermarket in the small town of Trebes and the attacker was killed, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told reporters on site. The...
Britain's new Brexit passport to be made in France (Updated) World

Britain's new Brexit passport to be made in France (Updated)

March 22nd, 20182958   By Costas Pitas The new blue British passports that Prime Minister Theresa May called "an expression of our independence and sovereignty" after Brexit will be made by a Franco-Dutch firm, the boss of the British company which lost the contract said on Thursday. May announced in December that Britain, which adopted...
French civil servants, rail staff strike in test for Macron Europe

French civil servants, rail staff strike in test for Macron

March 22nd, 20181675 Teachers, hospital nurses, train conductors and airline controllers will walk off the job and take to the streets across France on Thursday in a test of public anger with President Emmanuel Macron's reform drive. While unions have struggled to rally crowds over the past months, this is the first protest against Macron bringing...
France's Sarkozy faces second day of questioning in Gaddafi case World

France's Sarkozy faces second day of questioning in Gaddafi case

March 21st, 20181315 France's Nicolas Sarkozy faced a second day of questioning on Wednesday by investigators looking into allegations that his 2007 election campaign had received funds from late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Sarkozy, president from 2007 to 2012, was seen by a Reuters photographer leaving his home in Paris with his lawyer in a car, then...
Former French leader Sarkozy held over Libyan funding inquiry Europe

Former French leader Sarkozy held over Libyan funding inquiry

March 20th, 20181581 Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was held in custody on Tuesday and questioned by magistrates investigating whether late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi helped finance his 2007 election campaign, an official in the French judiciary said. It is the second major judicial investigation to fall on the 63-year-old, who served as...
French ex-president Sarkozy in custody in campaign funding probe (Update) Europe

French ex-president Sarkozy in custody in campaign funding probe (Update)

March 20th, 20181395 Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was being held in police custody on Tuesday for questioning by magistrates looking into allegations of Libyan funding for his 2007 election campaign, an official in the French judiciary said. A lawyer for Sarkozy could not be reached immediately for comment. France opened a judicial inquiry...
Merkel heads to Paris for euro reform talks with Macron Europe

Merkel heads to Paris for euro reform talks with Macron

March 16th, 20181971 German Chancellor Angela Merkel heads to Paris on Friday enthusiastic about talks with French President Emmanuel Macron but at odds with him over the pace and scope of reforms to the eurozone project they both cherish. Merkel, who finally took charge of her new "grand coalition" on Wednesday after nearly six months of talks, wants...
France 'backs Macron' in standoff with rail unions Europe

France 'backs Macron' in standoff with rail unions

March 15th, 20181577 President Emmanuel Macron is squaring off against rail unions with most voters on his side, a poll showed, as a labour force with a history of confrontation threatens open-ended strike action over his plan to modernise the state-run company. On Wednesday his government backed a bill to fast-track through parliament the biggest...
Polls show Macron hitting speed bump in French reform drive Europe

Polls show Macron hitting speed bump in French reform drive

March 9th, 20181205 French voters are happy with Emmanuel Macron's plans to shrink parliament and scrap perks enjoyed by 150,000 railway workers, but less pleased by the president's effort to make car drivers slow down, polls show. As the 40-year-old prepares a constitutional change to lower the number of lawmakers in the two houses of parliament by up...
Germany to start work on trade, China, Syria war - Merkel Europe

Germany to start work on trade, China, Syria war - Merkel

March 5th, 20181479 Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she would work with France to tackle pressing issues such as trade policy, the war in Syria and competition with China after the Social Democrats (SPD) approved joining a coalition with her conservatives. Merkel welcomed the vote by a clear majority of SPD members that ended more than five...
Collapse of Iran nuclear deal would be ‘great loss’ Middle East

Collapse of Iran nuclear deal would be ‘great loss’

March 5th, 20182008 Any collapse of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers would be a "great loss", the head of the UN atomic agency policing the accord said on Monday, alluding to a US threat to pull out of it. US President Donald Trump has threatened to pull out of the deal unless Congress and European allies help "fix" it with a...
France's National Front to change name as Le Pen seeks rebound Europe

France's National Front to change name as Le Pen seeks rebound

March 5th, 20181294 French far-right leader Marine Le Pen will this weekend unveil a new name for the 45-year-old National Front and a refocus on immigration as it searches for more voters and relevance in a political landscape transformed by President Emmanuel Macron. At the helm of the National Front (FN) since 2011, Le Pen has taken it further than...
France and Germany ask Putin to stop Syria attacks World

France and Germany ask Putin to stop Syria attacks

February 23rd, 20183105 German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron hoped world powers would agree a Syria ceasefire on Friday after they asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to back a corresponding UN Security Council resolution. The two European Union leaders appealed to Putin -- whose military intervention in Syria gave...
French nun speaks of Lourdes 'miracle' that ended disability Europe

French nun speaks of Lourdes 'miracle' that ended disability

February 13th, 20182105 A nun whose recovery from decades of debilitating back pain was declared a "miracle" by the Catholic Church spoke on Tuesday of the day she stood up, removed a brace from her gnarled foot and walked normally. For half her life Bernadette Moriau, 78, had suffered from acute sciatic nerve trouble that made it hard to walk, but she...
France commits to boosting defence spending Europe

France commits to boosting defence spending

February 8th, 20181348 France plans to increase defence spending by more than a third between 2017 and 2025 with the aim of meeting a Nato target of spending 2 per cent of gross domestic product on the sector. Presenting the multi-year military spending plan on Thursday, the Armed Forces Ministry said its budget would increase by 1.8 per cent to €34.2...
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