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POLITICS: U.S. Policy towards Taliban Influenced by Oil – authors
Under the influence of U.S. oil companies, the government of George W. Bush initially blocked U.S. secret service investigations on terrorism, while it bargained with the Taliban the delivery of Osama bin Laden in exchange for political recognition and economic aid, two French intelligence analysts claim.ENVIRONMENT: France Tightens Security around Nuclear Facilities
Fear that some 56 French nuclear power stations could be targeted for attacks, similar to those perpetrated against the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, has prompted the government to tighten security around the country's most dangerous facilities.POLITICS-FRANCE: Chirac uses Afghan War for Electoral Purposes
French President Jacques Chirac is using the war in Afghanistan for his political and electoral purposes, say analysts.POLITICS: Algerian War of Independence Continues to Haunt France
Forty years after the Algerian war of independence, France continues to be haunted by the conflict that it unsuccessfully tried to obliterate from its memory.ENVIRONMENT-FRANCE: Debate on Dangers of Industrial Sites
The explosion of a chemical plant near the southern city of Toulouse a week ago has unleashed a debate in France on the security and location of dangerous industries near major urban centres.RIGHTS: France Ill at Ease Over Anti-Racism Conference
France, a colonial power until the 1960s, is ill at ease over the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), scheduled to open Friday in Durban, South Africa, say political analysts and anti-racism activists.POLITICS-FRANCE: Corsican Killings Threaten Autonomy Accord
The recent assassinations of an eminent Corsican separatist leader, Francois Santoni, and one of his aides are threatening the autonomy agreement the French government negotiated during the last 18 months with the island's elected representatives.POLITICS-FRANCE: Improving Ties with Francophone Africa
Close aides to President Jacques Chirac have formed a political network, called Renaissance Afrique France (RAF), to improve ties with Francophone Africa.POLITICS-FRANCE: A Dusk-to-Dawn Curfew Targets Immigrant Children
The harassment of immigrant youth from the poor suburbs and neighbourhoods of big cities in France has become a rallying theme of right-wing politicians ahead of the election campaign next year, say social workers and other experts.POLITICS-FRANCE: President’s ‘Criminal’ Case may Trigger a Crisis
For France's embattled President Jacques Chirac, the traditional political break during the summer offers only an anguishing truce in the battle he has conducted for years to prevent the department of justice from asking him embarrassing questions about his past.ECONOMY: Task Force Threatens 19 Countries for Money Laundering
The main international organisation that fights money laundering, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Friday issued a "blacklistö of 19 countries that it said were not co-operating with global efforts to stop money laundering and threatened ôcountermeasuresö against three of them.CULTURE-FRANCE: Poor Boys Realise Porno Movie Fantasies in Collective Rapes
Witch or whore? For Saphi, a 17-year-old girl from the small French city of Sarcelles, some 20 km north of Paris, the alternative was easy. Despite pressure from her peers, she decided not to have a boyfriend from her neighbourhood, as that would label her a whore.POLITICS-ALGERIA: Regime Ready for Harsher Crack Down, Critics Say
The Algerian regime is ready to resort to the most vicious methods to repress the current rebellion in order to retain power, say several French Maghreb experts and political analysts here.POLITICS-FRANCE: Secret Service Delivers Weapons to Croatia Congo
The French secret service -- Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) -- allegedly delivered illegal weapons to the governments of Croatia and the Republic of Congo in the 1990s, according to a judiciary document.POLITICS: Plan to Close Down the UNESCO Magazine Under Fire
A plan by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Director General, Koichiro Matsuura, to close down the organisation's magazine, Courier, has sparked a bitter opposition.POLITICS-ALGERIA: Berber Rebellion Triggered by Corrupt Regime
The Berber rebellion in Algeria has been triggered by the regime's corruption and brutality as well as by the economic crisis that has ravaged the country for the past 10 years, according to economists and political analysts.POLITICS-ALGERIA: EU and UN Urged to Probe War Crimes
The European Union should urge the United Nations Organisation (UNO) to set up a tribunal to probe the allegations of war crimes committed in Algeria since 1992, according to a group of scholars and human rights activists.ECONOMY: Europe and US clash over plans to Target Tax Havens
Efforts by the Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD) to persuade off-shore financial centres to co-operate in a plan of tax harmonisation to reduce capital flight and money laundering have become a new subject of dissent between the European countries and the United States.ENVIRONMENT: Global Economic Activities Blamed For Degradation
Almost ten years after signing the protocol on sustainable development at the 1992 UN summit in Rio de Janeiro, the nations of the world have not been able to recognise environmental degradation from economic activity and are moving head long into ecological disaster, according to experts.RIGHTS-ALGERIA: Berber Violence Provoked by Government, Say Rights Activists
Berber human rights and democracy activists are accusing the Algerian authorities of provoking violence in the eastern region of Kabylia to give it an excuse to militarise the area.POLITICS: A Retired French Army General Faces Gunrunning Charges
A retired French army General Claude Mouton is facing the charges of gunrunning to Angola.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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