French embassies face closure over prophet’s cartoon
September 20th, 2012 - 12:07 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Sep 19 (IANS/RIA Novosti) France will close several of its embassies and schools around the world amid concerns of a backlash after a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad appeared ... Read more...
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No impunity for Al-Assad : France
July 25th, 2012 - 9:13 am ICT by IANS
Paris, July 25 (IANS) France has said despite the Arab League making proposal of safe exit for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, it would not earn him an impunity, Xinhua reported.... Read more...
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Top Syrian military defector contacts opposition
July 13th, 2012 - 4:00 am ICT by IANS
Paris, July 13 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A top general who recently defected from the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria has established contacts with the opposition, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.Brig. ... Read more...
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France offers communications gear to Syrian opposition
June 16th, 2012 - 11:03 am ICT by IANS
Paris, June 16 (IANS/RIA Novosti) France is ready to supply communications equipment to the Syrian opposition and to individuals and is ready to make the shipments on its own, the ... Read more...
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Russia denies holding talks over Assad exit
June 16th, 2012 - 9:56 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, June 16 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has denied that Russia was conducting talks with other nations on an exit plan for Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad."If ... Read more...
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Amnesty finds evidence of state-sponsored abuse in Syria
June 15th, 2012 - 11:24 am ICT by IANS
London, June 15 (IANS/AKI) Human rights group Amnesty International has said it has collected evidence of state-sponsored rights abuses in Syria.
In its 70-page report titled "Deadly Reprisals", the Britain-based ... Read more...
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French PM re-elected in parliamentary elections
June 11th, 2012 - 9:01 am ICT by IANS
Paris, June 11 (IANS) French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault was re-elected in the first round of parliamentary elections held Sunday, media reported.Ayrault, a socialist politician, had been appointed ... Read more...
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Carla Bruni’ affairs to remember
March 13th, 2010 - 9:26 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
March 13, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): It seems that all is not well in Carla Bruni -Nicolas Sarkozy fairytale marriage. Supermodel cum singer Carla Bruni who married French president Nicolas ... Read more...
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Lawmakers approve France’s return to NATO
March 18th, 2009 - 11:52 am ICT by IANS
Paris, March 18 (DPA) As expected, lawmakers in the French National Assembly voted late Tuesday in favour of a measure that effectively approved President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to return France to NATO's ... Read more...
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