STOCKHOLM (AP) — Patrick Modiano of France, who has made a lifelong study of the Nazi occupation and its effects on his country, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what one academic called “crystal clear and resonant”
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for multiple massive explosions on Tuesday at the French Cultural Center in Gaza City, according to a flier that has been making the rounds in the Strip. Photo Credit: EPA The flier told Gazans
BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants with Islamic State group on Wednesday shot down an Iraqi military attack helicopter, killing the two pilots on board in the second such incident in a week and raising concerns about the extremists’ ability to attack
Migrants living rough near the port of Calais in France have turned down free food hand-outs, claiming the food on offer was not spicy enough for their tastes in an incident branded “very disappointing” by charity workers. A small group
MADRID (AP) — Health officials scrambled Tuesday to figure out how West Africa’s Ebola outbreak got past Europe’s defenses, quarantining four people at a Madrid hospital where a Spanish nursing assistant became infected. Determined to contain the spread of the
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls defended his Socialist government against a stream of criticism of its economic and business reforms during a visit to London. “My government is pro-business!” he told British business leaders in English at the Guildhall in
Scientists using data models to map the spread of the deadly Ebola virus claim there is a good chance the outbreak will spread to the United Kingdom and France by the end of the month, but reducing air traffic in
According to a study by real estate listing site Redfin, reported at real-estate blog Curbed LA, a middle-class household in Los Angeles can only afford 12 percent of available housing stock. But fear not–the wealthy who can afford the other
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Jean-Claude Duvalier, who presided over what was widely acknowledged as a corrupt and brutal regime as the self-proclaimed “president for life” of Haiti until a popular uprising sent him into a 25-year exile, has died. He
(Reuters) – The European Commission is likely to reject France’s 2015 budget draft at the end of October and ask for a new one that would better reflect Paris’ deficit reduction obligations under European Union rules, several euro zone officials
The boss of British retailing giant John Lewis has launched into a diatribe against France, labelling the country “sclerotic, hopeless and downbeat”, and advising investors to pull out as quickly as possible. The company tried to brush off the remarks
On June 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan stood at the very spot on the northern coast of France where forty years before Allied soldiers had stormed ashore to liberate Europe from the long night of Nazi tyranny. As an audience
After a day of consuming increasingly disturbing Ebola news, how about an entirely different sort of horror story? William Langeswiesche at Vanity Fair has an extensive, methodical, and terrifying account of the Air France Flight 447 crash from 2009, which
International health organizations working to combat the breakneck pace at which the Ebola virus is spreading in west Africa are warning that, in Sierra Leone, the number of cases has been doubling every few weeks, with five people contracting the
Iraq’s most popular television show is Terrorism in the Grip of Justice on public station Al Iraqiya on Friday nights. Over 9 million people tune in every Friday to watch victims confront terrorists in person. FRANCE 24 went with the
The US State department has listed him as one of ten most wanted “foreign terrorist fighters” for his acts which allegedly include execution-style killings, but friends and family of Frenchman Salim Benghalem have expressed surprise at the accusation, telling press
PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister says the number of French radicals joining extremists in Syria and Iraq has soared this year, saying that justifies a tough new anti-terrorist law adopted this month. Bernard Cazeneuve said on RTL radio Tuesday
In a further blow to his credibility, French President Francois Hollande’s ruling Socialist Party has lost control of France’s Senate, allowing the National Front to pick up seats for the first time. The victory for the far right party marks
(Reuters) – The far-right National Front won its first ever seats in France’s upper house of parliament on Sunday, as President Francois Hollande’s Socialist party lost its Senate majority. The left still controls the lower house, which is the dominant
Just three years after France’s upper house Senate made history with its first ever swing to the left, the right is expected to claw back a majority Sunday in a new setback for Socialist President Francois Hollande. The far-right National
PARIS (AP) — In tweets, in street gatherings and in open letters, moderate Muslims around the world are insisting that Islamic State extremists don’t speak for their religion. Many are also frustrated that anyone might think they do, and a
In the wood-panelled rooms of Vienna’s traditional coffee houses, tobacco-lovers can still light up pretty much as they please. But one of the last smokers’ havens in Europe may be on course to kick the habit. Even diehard smokers, when
Radical Feminists have stripped off and taken to Paris’s streets in protest against radical Islamists. Urging “infidels” to “speak out” and “rise up”, the women wore scarves to cover their faces as they marched through the streets sporting plastic flowery
President Francois Hollande was to convene an emergency meeting of his defence council Thursday with renewed determination to fight Islamic State extremists after the “cowardly” beheading of a French hostage in Algeria. As France grieved the loss of 55-year-old Herve
An unidentified woman has released covert footage of daily life in the heartland of the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Hiding a camera under her niqab, the women took the footage in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto ISIS capital.
