France to buy American drones for Mali operation
RT Two of America’s medium-altitude Reaper drones will be sold to France as backup for the country’s operations against Islamist rebels in Mali. The news comes from the ‘Air et Cosmos’ specialist magazine, which reported online that a deal had been reached between France and the United States for the sale of two non-armed MQ-9 [...]
Read More →Deadly virus newly found in humans strikes in France
Zee News Novel coronavirus (NCoV), a newly discovered and potentially deadly virus, related to one that causes the common cold, has struck another victim, this time in France, CNN reported Thursday. A man hospitalised in April has been infected with the novel coronavirus, the French health ministry said. The NCoV virus was recently found for [...]
Read More →The French Government’s Exquisite Bullying
By Wolf Richter | Testosterone Pit The French government is saddled with enough problems; in theory, it no longer needs to create new ones. But now it wrote another excellent chapter in its tome on how to interfere with private-sector businesses, hamper entrepreneurs, and encourage them to start up their operations elsewhere instead of creating [...]
Read More →UK, France ‘directly or indirectly’ backing al-Qaida in Syria, says official
ANI Britain and France are ‘directly or indirectly’ supporting al-Qaida in an escalating war against Syria, a senior minister in Damascus has said. Faisal al-Miqdad, Syria’s vice-foreign minister, also warned neighbouring Jordan was playing ‘a dangerous game’ by allowing arms supplies to go to rebel groups from its territory. Al-Miqdad used a rare interview to [...]
Read More →France’s Hollande Proposes New Progressive Tax on the Rich
By Jacob Chamberlain | Common Dreams French President Francois Hollande introduced a new tax on the wealthy this week in which companies would have to pay 75 percent tax on salaries exceeding one million euros—a bid to make good on a thus far failed campaign promise to more aggressively tax the rich. Hollande said in a televised TV [...]
Read More →Sarkozy charged in probe of illegal party funding
ChannelNewsAsia Former president Nicolas Sarkozy has been charged with taking financial advantage of France’s richest woman as part of a probe into illegal party funding, a move that supporters say is aimed at preventing his political comeback. The 58-year-old Sarkozy – who this month made the strongest hint yet that he could be a presidential [...]
Read More →Police raid home of IMF boss Christine Lagarde over Tapie scandal
By The Australian FRENCH police have raided the Paris home of IMF chief Christine Lagarde in connection with a probe into her handling of a high-profile scandal when she was a government minister. The investigation concerns Ms Lagarde’s 2007 decision to ask an arbitration panel to rule on a dispute between disgraced tycoon Bernard Tapie [...]
Read More →IMF chief’s Paris home searched over ‘illegal’ payout under Sarkozy
RT French authorities are searching the home of IMF Chief Christine Lagarde over a probe into a million-dollar payout to a supporter of ex-President Sarkozy. Lagarde has been under investigation since 2011, but denies any wrongdoing. Lagarde’s lawyer told to Reuters that the search would exonerate her client of all criminal responsibility in connection with [...]
Read More →The French and the British governments push for arming their own jihadists in Syria
By Dmitry Babich | VOR The situation with the attempts by the British and the French government to get a green light for their arms supplies to the Syrian rebels is somewhat schizophrenic. Both French and British mass media are full of reports on jihadist “volunteers” from Britain and France fighting in Syria on the side [...]
Read More →Socialism Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be Makes Hollande Most Unpopular President In 32 Years
By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge While the people of France voted for a wealth distributing tax-the-rich Socialist President, it appears Francois Hollande is not living up to his electorate’s hope for change as his policies are increasingly seen as simply more of the same as Sarkozy – “often the line is very fine between the [...]
Read More →UK, US, French instructors training Syrian rebels in Jordan
VOR Several Western media have suggested the United States, Britain and France were training Syrian rebels in two camps in the east and the south of Jordan. According to Germany’s Der Spiegel, some 20 Syrians have received anti-tank weaponry training over the past three months. The paper has unveiled US plans to provide training for [...]
Read More →Eutelsat Israeli chief behind attack on Iran channels
PressTV The Franco-Israeli head of Eutelsat, Michel de Rosen, has begun a new wave of attacks against Iranian TV channels. In a letter to Asian and European satellite companies, de Rosen has threatened the companies to drop Iranian entertainment and news channels. In the letter obtained by Press TV, the Franco-Israeli Eutelsat chief has warned [...]
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