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Germany’s Denial, Europe’s Disaster

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:20:53 -0800

New York Times - Nov. 30 (Opinion) - The only way to restore market confidence is with a real bailout fund financed in Europe.

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France, Islam and the banlieues: a debate on the place of Islam and class in the suburbs

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Michèle Tribalat, Gérard Mauger - Nov. 01 (Opinion) - In an effort to allay concerns about Islam in France, policymakers and analysts have either tried to play down its importance or sought to blend it into the landscape. Islam is often portrayed as an integral part of French history: its presence simply follows on from ancient history. The basis for this argument is shaky, for it refers to an era when Christendom – not yet referred to as the west – was in retreat, driven back by the force of Islamic arms.

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U.S. Stock Futures Drop as Europe Woos China for Bailout Fund

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By Adria Cimino - Oct. 31 (News) - U.S. stock futures fell, indicating the Standard & Poor's 500 Index may pare its biggest monthly rally since 1974, as investors awaited China's response to the European request for money to boost the bailout fund. Alcoa Inc., the largest U.S. aluminum producer, and General Electric Co. led declining shares in European trading. Futures on the S&P 500 expiring in December fell 0.9 percent to 1,269.4 at 8:50 a.m. in London. The S&P 500 advanced in the last four weeks and has climbed 14 percent this month. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average retreated 89, or 0.7 percent, to 12,079

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Court refuses extradition of suspect in genocide

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Scotsman - By Pierre-Antoine Souchard - Sep. 29 (News Report) - France cannot extradite Rwanda's former first lady to her homeland, where she is sought in connection with the African country's 1994 genocide, a Paris appeals court has ruled.

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Explosion at nuclear plant in southern France

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Jenny Barchfield - Sep. 12 (News Report) - An explosion at a nuclear waste facility in southern France killed one person and injured four on Monday. Authorities said there was no radioactive leak, but critics urged France to rethink its nuclear power in the wake of the catastrophe at Japan's Fukushima plant.

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Op-Ed Columnist: The Age of Outrage

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:56:47 -0700

New York Times - By By ROGER COHEN - Aug. 13 (Opinion) - In Europe, August morphed into the serious season and the beach lost out to the barricades.

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Lessons of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Bernard-Henri Lévy - Jul. 02 (Opinion) - The Strauss-Kahn affair is not over. For it to be over, the American system of justice must pursue its investigation and work to the very end. If it’s truly to be over, Dominique Strauss-Kahn must be granted not only his freedom, but—even more importantly—restoration of his honor. In other words, “the Strauss-Kahn affair” will continue to be regarded as such as long as it hasn’t been clearly established that there never was any affair at all—and that the plaintiff, not content to have lied about this or that aspect of her past, also lied in accusing the former head of the IMF of having raped her. And yet, given recent revelations, we can already draw a few lessons from what will ultimately—no doubt very soon—be known as the Strauss-Kahn non-affair.

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DSK Accuser's African Connection

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Christopher Dickey - Jul. 01 (Investigative Report) - pride of place goes to the photograph of Fofanah and Alpha Condé, who was elected last November as president of Guinea, the country from which DSK’s accuser immigrated and requested political asylum. Condé, as it turns out, also has extensive ties to major political players in France, including people close to—wait for it—both President Nicolas Sarkozy and Strauss-Kahn, who had been expected to be the incumbent’s main challenger in next year’s elections. You can see why the conspiracy-minded French find the case so fascinating.

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French Watchdog Reins In Media Coverage of IMF Chief

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Thomas Varela, Gabriele Parussini - May. 17 (News) - France's broadcasting watchdog called on the country's television channels to be extremely cautious in showing footage of International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn in handcuffs, a practice that contravenes French law.

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IMF chief arrested in alleged sex assault

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Edward Cody - May. 15 (News Report) - he head of the International Monetary Fund was charged early Sunday in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a housekeeper at a Manhattan hotel Saturday, a New York police spokesman said. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, who had been removed from a Paris-bound flight in New York minutes before takeoff Saturday, was questioned by the New York Police Department’s special victims office and arrested at 2:15 a.m. Sunday on charges of criminal sex act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment, a spokesman said.

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I.M.F. Head Is Arrested and Accused of Sexual Attack

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Al Baker, Steven Erlanger - May. 15 (Breaking News) - The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken off an Air France plane at Kennedy International Airport minutes before it was to take off for Paris on Saturday and arrested in connection with the sexual attack of a maid at a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the authorities said.

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The Coming Euro Crack-Up

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Weekly Standard - By Irwin M. Stelzer - May. 09 (News Analysis) - The “European project” won’t go quietly into the night. But it just might go noisily into the ashcan of history if the Germans decide they cannot convert the Greeks into hard-working, tax-paying euro-citizens worthy of continuing handouts. Or, at minimum, we might end up with a euro-nord and euro-sud, as Martin Feldstein once suggested.

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Werner Herzog Enters 'The Cave Of Forgotten Dreams'

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Terri Gross, Werner Herzog - Apr. 25 (Interview) - In 1994, three French cave explorers discovered hundreds of prehistoric paintings and engravings on the walls of the Chauvet Cave in southern France. Carbon dating has since shown that the depictions of rhinoceroses, lions, cave bears, horses, bison, mammoths and other animals are between 30,000 and 32,000 years old. That doesn't mean the ancient drawings are any less sophisticated than what artists create today, says filmmaker Werner Herzog. "Art ... as it bursts on the scene 32,000 years ago, is fully accomplished. It doesn't start with 'primitive scribblings' and first attempts like children would make drawings," Herzog says. "It's absolutely and fully accomplished." The acclaimed German director, who has produced, written and directed more than 40 films, gained exclusive access to the Chauvet caves. He tells their story and the story of the world's oldest cave paintings in The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a 3-D documentary film. "Since early adolescence, I have been fascinated by cave paintings," Herzog tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "It actually was my personal intellectual awakening ... and shook me to the core — seeing an image of a horse [from the] prehistoric Stone Age. I couldn't believe it." Part of Herzog's interest in the paintings, he says, is the knowledge that tens of thousands of years ago, humans had the instinct to make art in order to represent the world around them.

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U.S., Europeans step up efforts to aid Libyan rebels

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Karen DeYoung - Apr. 21 (News Report) - The United States and its allies have entered a new stage of involvement in Libya, sending assistance and advisers directly to opposition military forces, which have been unable to break Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi’s stranglehold over much of the country despite help from NATO airstrikes.

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The Libyan mission is creeping, no doubt

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Simon Tisdall - Apr. 19 (Opinion) - With Britain sending a 'military liaison advisory team' to Libya, how many more boots on the ground will follow?

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U.S., Allies Raise Ante on Ouster of Gadhafi

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Stephen Fidler, Adam Entous, Sam Dagher - Apr. 14 (News Report) - The leaders of the U.S., France and the U.K. said the North Atlantic Treaty Organization must continue operations in Libya until Col. Moammar Gadhafi leaves power, raising the stakes in the showdown with the Libyan ruler.

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France and Britain Urge Stronger NATO Action in Libya

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Alan Cowell, Rod Nordland - Apr. 12 (News) - France and Britain urged NATO on Tuesday to intensify airstrikes against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces and called on the alliance to do more to shield noncombatants from loyalist attacks.

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France Takes Control of Airport in Ivory Coast

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Steven Erlanger - Apr. 03 (News) - French forces took over the Ivory Coast’s main airport on Sunday so that foreigners could be evacuated as fighting continued in Abidjan between rival presidents.

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Rebels push towards Gaddafi stronghold

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Mar. 26 (News Report) - Bin Jawad is the latest town to fall as Libyan rebels' rapid advance west takes them closer to Gaddafi-held Sirte.

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Libyan plane reportedly downed; fighting continues

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Mary Beth Sheridan, Liz Sly, Debbi Wilgoren - Mar. 24 (News) - A French fighter jet reported attacking and destroying a Libyan plane near the coastal city of Misurata Thursday, as international forces continued attacks on Libyan targets and state television showed footage of people killed in Western air strikes.

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Is the French public beginning to doubt nuclear?

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Fiona Harvey - Mar. 23 (News Report) - Even before Fukushima, the relationship between France and its dominant nuclear industry was being tested for the first time The presence of the Gravelines nuclear power plant in northern France is unmissable for miles around, where dozens of lines of enormous pylons march six abreast across the landscape, each hung with heavy cables that carry 7% of France's electricity across the country. Gravelines, on the French coast between Calais and Dunkirk, about 30 miles from Dover, is the fifth biggest nuclear reactor in the world, and one of the hardest working – last year, it became the first to produce more than one terawatt-hour of electricity. Its six reactors cover 150 hectares (370 acres) and are tended by nearly 2,000 people. It is also on Greenpeace's list of "reactors of particular concern", because of its age. Work began on the plant in 1970, with the first reactors entering service in 1980, and the rest following in 1981 and 1985, the year before the Chernobyl disaster. But for ...

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At War in Libya

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 22 (Editorial) - The allied attacks on Libya were perhaps the only hope of keeping more people from being slaughtered. But there is much reason for concern.

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MoD: no evidence of Libyan civilian casualties

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:29:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - Mar. 21 (News) - Maj Gen Lorimer said strikes on Libya had been effective at disabling Col Gaddafi's air force capability. According to opposition forces, pro-Gaddafi troops are withdrawing from Benghazi and are now attacking other rebel-held areas.

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French jets open fire on Libyan military vehicle

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Mar. 19 (Breaking News) - French fighter jets deployed over Libya fired at a military vehicle on Saturday, the country's first strike against Moammar Gadhafi's military forces who earlier attacked the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

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A Door Into Top Kitchens for French North Africans

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Steven Erlanger - Jan. 18 (News) - In some ways, it is just a drop of costly olive oil in a turbid lake, but for 15 women from this poor Paris suburb, it is a chance for a stable and nourishing, if difficult, career.

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