Posts tagged with "France"

French nun speaks of Lourdes 'miracle' that ended disability Europe

French nun speaks of Lourdes 'miracle' that ended disability

February 13th, 20182135 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, 20181380 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...
Snow blankets Paris and northern France, transport disrupted Europe

Snow blankets Paris and northern France, transport disrupted

February 7th, 20181322 Heavy snowfall across northern France overnight caused widespread travel disruption on Wednesday with hundreds of motorists spending the night in their cars and around 700 travellers sleeping in two Paris train stations. French authorities set up makeshift shelters at roadsides across the Paris region, near Orly airport to the south...
France says Turkey, Iran violating international law in Syria Middle East

France says Turkey, Iran violating international law in Syria

February 7th, 20181480 France's foreign minister on Wednesday demanded that all Iranian-backed militia, including Lebanon's Hezbollah, leave Syria and said that Turkey and Iran were violating international law through their actions in the country. Speaking on BFM television, Jean-Yves Le Drian also said there were indications Syrian government forces were...
Two french army training helicopters crash, five dead Europe

Two french army training helicopters crash, five dead

February 2nd, 20181077 Two French military helicopters belonging to an army flight training school crashed in the south-eastern Var region on Friday, causing deaths, the local prefecture said. A security source and an official from the local authority said five people were killed in the accident. There were no immediate details on what caused the crash.
Macron warns Turkey over Syrian operation Middle East

Macron warns Turkey over Syrian operation

January 31st, 20181874 French President Emmanuel Macron warned Turkey that its operation against Kurdish militias in northern Syria should not become an excuse to invade the country and said he wanted Ankara to coordinate its action with its allies. Turkey last week launched an air and ground offensive in north-west Syria, targeting the Kurdish YPG militia...
French police clash with prison guards in protest over jail conditions Europe

French police clash with prison guards in protest over jail conditions

January 19th, 20181909 French riot police clashed on Friday with striking prison guards who accuse the government of doing little to counter spiralling violence and Islamist activism inside the country's overcrowded jails. The scuffles outside Fleury Merogis prison, one of Europe's largest with 3,800 inmates, coincided with news from a jail in Corsica that...
France says no for now to Johnson's idea of giant Channel bridge Britain

France says no for now to Johnson's idea of giant Channel bridge

January 19th, 20181828 France on Friday politely rejected Boris Johnson's idea of building a giant bridge across the English Channel after Brexit, saying that, while far-fetched ideas were worth considering, there were plenty of major European projects to finish first. Foreign Secretary Johnson, who led the campaign to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum,...
Macron spells out reasons for Britain to stay in EU Britain

Macron spells out reasons for Britain to stay in EU

January 18th, 20183055 "Be my guest," French President Emmanuel Macron told Britain on Thursday, saying he would welcome any move by Prime Minister Theresa May to stay in the European Union's single market. But he added a warning - London's prized financial centre could not enjoy the same level of access to the EU under May's current Brexit plan. At a...
After 950 years, France to lend Bayeux Tapestry to Britain Europe

After 950 years, France to lend Bayeux Tapestry to Britain

January 17th, 20181679 France will lend Britain the Bayeux Tapestry, an 11th century treasure that tells the tale of how William the Conqueror came to invade England in 1066, an official at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris said on Wednesday. The announcement, a day before French President Emmanuel Macron is due to visit Britain for talks with Prime...
Ahead of UK summit, Macron visits migrants in port of Calais Europe

Ahead of UK summit, Macron visits migrants in port of Calais

January 16th, 20181508 French President Emmanuel Macron visited a migrant reception centre and quizzed refugees in Calais on Tuesday, taking stock of the pressure on the Channel port ahead of a summit with British Prime Minister Theresa May this week. Calais and the surrounding Hauts-de-France region are among the poorest areas of France, with unemployment...
France expects UK to pay up, take more refugees to keep border Europe

France expects UK to pay up, take more refugees to keep border

January 15th, 20181698 France expects Britain to agree to take more asylum seekers and pay more for border security in order to maintain a frontier on the French side of the Channel, a French government official said. Britain's border was extended into France under a 2003 bilateral treaty known as the Le Touquet accord. But a migration crisis and the Brexit...
European powers urge Trump to preserve Iran nuclear deal Middle East

European powers urge Trump to preserve Iran nuclear deal

January 11th, 20181795 Britain, France and Germany made a joint plea to Donald Trump on Thursday to uphold a pact stopping Iran getting nuclear weapons, a day before the US president is expected to decide whether to re-impose sanctions in a move likely to sink the deal. In sharp contrast to Trump's view that the 2015 pact was "the worst deal ever...
French feminists liken Deneuve, #Metoo critics to tiresome uncle Europe

French feminists liken Deneuve, #Metoo critics to tiresome uncle

January 10th, 20181959 Catherine Deneuve and other critics of the #Metoo movement against sexual harassment sound like "the tiresome uncle at the family dinner" who does not understand that the world is changing, leading French feminists said on Wednesday. Deneuve and 99 other women on Tuesday signed a column in the newspaper Le Monde that argued that the...
Minister dismisses concerns over Macron's fake news law plan Europe

Minister dismisses concerns over Macron's fake news law plan

January 9th, 20181487 Judges, not the government, will be in charge of enforcing French President Emmanuel Macron's proposed new legislation to fight fake news on the Internet, a minister said on Tuesday, dismissing concerns over state control of information. Macron, a target of fake news and of a major data hack during his run for the presidency last...
China's new 'Silk Road' cannot be one-way, France's Macron says Asia

China's new 'Silk Road' cannot be one-way, France's Macron says

January 8th, 20181823 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday China and Europe should work together on Beijing's 'Belt and Road' initiative, a project aiming to build a modern-day 'Silk Road' he said could not be "one-way". Macron began his first state visit to China with a stop in Xian, an eastern departure point of the ancient Silk Road,...
Macron plans law to fight "fake news" in 2018 Europe

Macron plans law to fight "fake news" in 2018

January 4th, 20181431 President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday he would overhaul French media legislation this year to fight the spread of "fake news" on social media which he said was a threat to liberal democracies. Macron has said he and his team were victims of fake news and a major data hack during his election campaign last year. Since...
Macron: world losing battle against climate change (Update) World

Macron: world losing battle against climate change (Update)

December 12th, 20172102 French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a bleak assessment on the global fight against climate change to dozens of world leaders and company executives on Tuesday, telling them: "We are losing the battle". "We're not moving quickly enough. We all need to act," Macron said, seeking to breathe new life into a collective effort that...
Macron's trip to Africa gets off to hostile start Africa

Macron's trip to Africa gets off to hostile start

November 28th, 20171956 President Emmanuel Macron began a visit to reshape France's relations with Africa on Tuesday though a grenade attack targetting French troops on the ground and the stoning of a vehicle in his convoy in Burkina Faso set an early hostile tone. Macron, 39, is on a three-day trip to Burkina Faso, Ghana and Ivory Coast aimed at boosting...
Hariri to leave Saudi Arabia for France on Friday - MP Middle East

Hariri to leave Saudi Arabia for France on Friday - MP

November 17th, 20171762 Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as Lebanese prime minister on Nov 4 during a visit to Saudi Arabia, will leave Riyadh for France on Friday, a member of his party said. "Today to Paris, this afternoon, and tomorrow a family meeting with (French President Emmanuel) Macron," Okab Saqr, a member of parliament for Future Movement, told...
France's Macron broaches Lebanon in surprise Saudi visit Middle East

France's Macron broaches Lebanon in surprise Saudi visit

November 10th, 20171637 French President Emmanuel Macron held hastily scheduled talks in Riyadh on Thursday with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman amid rising tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, notably over Lebanon and Yemen. Macron, who flew in from a visit to the United Arab Emirates, had earlier declined to discuss a wave of high-level arrests...
France to Germany: European status quo is not an option Europe

France to Germany: European status quo is not an option

November 8th, 20173554 Europe must decide whether it wants to press ahead with closer economic and political integration or return to self-defeating nationalist solutions, France's finance minister said in Berlin on Wednesday, in a forceful challenge to Germany. On his first visit since a German election in September, Bruno Le Maire showed no signs of...
Cyprus-France seen upping defence ties Cyprus

Cyprus-France seen upping defence ties

November 7th, 20174972 Cyprus and France appear to be upping ties in the area of defence as high-ranking officials of the French defence ministry are due in Cyprus in the coming days to visit the naval base at Mari as part of moves to strengthen cooperation. Following President Nicos Anastasiades’ meeting with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in...
President’s meeting with Macron focuses on defence and energy Cyprus

President’s meeting with Macron focuses on defence and energy

November 6th, 20173536 France is free to use the Mari naval base and the Paphos airbase for its peace operations in the Eastern Mediterranean, President Nicos Anastasiades reaffirmed on Monday following a meeting with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris. During his official visit to France with the First Lady and a delegation, Anastasiades held...
Total to begin operations soon in block 6 of Cyprus' EEZ Energy

Total to begin operations soon in block 6 of Cyprus' EEZ

November 5th, 20175294 French energy giant Total will soon begin operating in block 6 of Cyprus` Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) it was announced on Sunday evening after a meeting President Nicos Anastasiades had in Paris with the company`s Chairman and CEO Patrick Pouyanne and Vice President of the Middle East and North Africa division Elias Kassis. Present...
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