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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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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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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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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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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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A Former Dictator Reappears in Haiti

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Randal C. Archibold - Jan. 17 (News) - Haiti’s political crisis took a stunning turn on Sunday when Jean-Claude Duvalier, the dictator known as Baby Doc who was overthrown in 1986, arrived unexpectedly in the capital from exile in France.

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European nations begin seizing private pensions

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Jan Iwanik - Jan. 02 (News Report) - Hungary, Poland, and three other nations take over citizens' pension money to make up government budget shortfalls.

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Fearing Terror Threat, Germany Raises Security

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Michael Slackman, Eric Schmitt - Nov. 17 (News Report) - Germany dispatched heavily armed police and bomb-sniffing dogs to train stations, airports and key landmarks on Wednesday as a new picture emerged of the terrorist threat that had already raised security levels in Britain and France. In a hastily called news conference in Berlin, the country’s interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, said the government had “concrete indications of a series of attacks planned for the end of November,” and German, Pakistani and American officials offered similar accounts of intelligence that pointed to imminent attacks by terrorists trained in Pakistan or Afghanistan.

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Weapons research crosses the Channel

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Nature - By Geoff Brumfiel - Nov. 04 (News) - Nuclear-weapons data is among the most closely guarded information there is. But in the wake of a major defence agreement, it seems that crucial data needed to maintain the nuclear stockpiles of both the United Kingdom and France will be coming from a single shared facility.

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Britain, France Offer Previews for U.S.

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Houston Chronicle - Oct. 29 (News Analysis) - The social contracts that have governed the world's advanced, industrialized nations since World War II are being called into question and, in some cases, radically revised. Great Britain and France offer us a vivid preview. Americans will be facing similar decisions about government budgets, taxes and retirement benefits - and soon.

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Fresh clashes as French protests continue

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Oct. 20 (News) - Fresh clashes broke out Wednesday between protesters and police in France as hundreds of thousands rallied in opposition to planned pension reforms.

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Barack Obama accused of exaggerating terror threat for political gain

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Simon Tisdall, Richard Norton-Taylor - Oct. 07 (News Report) - A US terror alert issued this week about al-Qaida plots to attack targets in western Europe was politically motivated and not based on credible new information, senior Pakistani diplomats and European intelligence officials have told the Guardian.

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'Credible But Not Specific' Threat of New Terrorist Attack

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Richard Esposito, Rhonda Schwartz, Matthew Cole, Anna Schecter - Sep. 28 (News Report) - US and European officials said Tuesday they have detected a plot to carry out a major, coordinated series of commando-style terror attacks in Britain, France, Germany and possibly the United States. A senior US official said that while there is a "credible" threat, no specific time or place is known.

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