DUBAI (Reuters) – A video of French hostage Serge Lazarevic, appealing to France’s President Francois Hollande to negotiate his release after two years in captivity in the Sahara, was aired by Dubai-based Akhbar Al Aan TV on Tuesday. In the
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has approached French President François Hollande privately to ask if he would be willing to put forward Christine Lagarde, the former French cabinet minister who is now head of the IMF, as president of the European
France is preparing to train hundreds of Russian naval crew to operate a powerful French-made warship this month, defying calls from the U.S. and other Western allies to keep the vessel out of the Kremlin’s hands, according to a report
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com ‘Homegrown jihadists are France’s gravest threat’ Vietnam develops increasingly dangerous strategy to counter China Saudi Arabia reports significantly more deaths from MERS virus ‘Homegrown jihadists are France’s gravest threat’ Homegrown jihadists are France’s gravest
The China-Arab Cooperative forum is celebrating its tenth anniversary, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi noted in a statement that the Chinese government is increasingly interested in expanding trade and economic ties with the region, particularly in developing industries like
Madonna can look a little … awkward … trying to keep up with her younger, envelope-shredding peers. She showed off her underarm hair via social media a few weeks back, and she caught the paparazzi’s eye with her dental grill
While investigators in France continue to hold suspected terrorist Mehdi Nemmouche, arrested in Marseille on Friday in connection with the shootings at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on May 24, four more people were arrested by French police on Monday
PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande certainly won’t go hungry this Thursday night. He’s dining twice — first with U.S. President Barack Obama, then with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It will be a digestive and logistical challenge, but the
US Congressmen have urged France to cancel the sale of two advanced helicopter carrier ships to Russia and suggested that NATO buy or lease them instead. “The purchase would send a strong signal to President Putin that the NATO allies
The richest Americans are more generous than the wealthy of other countries, a study recently found. But it isn’t just the super rich. At all levels Americans are more generous than residents of other countries. A May 31 piece at
Salvador Sánchez Cerén, a former officer of leftist guerrilla group, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), has been sworn in as president of El Salvador, promising to fight “organized crime” while strengthening ties with Venezuela. Sánchez Cerén, who served as
PARIS (AP) — Four people were arrested Monday in a sweep against French jihadist recruiters, the country’s top security official said a day after authorities announced the detention of a French suspect in the deadly shooting at a Jewish museum.
BORDEAUX, France–Much like liberals in America, people in France who lean left are shocked at conservative victories in the French elections for the European Parliament, and are concerned about the next national elections. Both on economic and social issues, the
French police arrested Mehdi Nemmouche on Friday for an attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels in May that killed three. Authorities say Nemmouche took responsibility for the shootings and may have ties to the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq
PARIS (AP) — A suspected French jihadist arrested over killings at a Belgian Jewish museum had traveled to Syria and claimed responsibility for the shootings in a video, prosecutors said Sunday. Fears have been mounting in European countries that the
A Frenchman with suspected ties to Islamic radicals in Syria has been arrested over last week’s fatal shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, investigation sources told AFP on Sunday. The 29-year-old was arrested in the southern French city of
They thirst for vengeance – or at least, for a large Coke and an order of fries -in Northern France, where the citizens of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise have been ready to demonstrate in the streets because local bureaucrats are delaying construction of
The Texas State Supreme Court dealt Lance Armstrong another blow on Friday in his bid to keep a firm from collecting $12 million it paid the disgraced cyclist in bonus money. The court denied Armstrong’s motion for temporary relief he
France is the terror capital of Europe, suffering 63 of the 152 terrorist attacks in the European Union in 2013. Three people were killed in the attacks and 225 arrests were made for terrorism-related offences. A Europol report published on
A zoning violation may leave the northern French town of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise without a McDonald’s, triggering widespread protests by residents who demand their right to fine American dining. The stereotype-defying protest has made worldwide headlines, though authorities appear unlikely to comply with
Mary Meeker, long a mainstay at Morgan Stanley, now a partner at the venture-capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is one of the most important Internet analysts in America today. Which is to say, she’s one of the
Less than one day after President Obama proudly boasted that his self-described tough “moral leadership” had succeeded in isolating Russia and its leadership in punishment for its invasion and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, Russian President Vladimir Putin was invited
A “new record” is not always a good thing. According to a Wednesday report released by the French Labor Ministry, France is now seeing record high unemployment numbers with a record 3.364 million people looking for work. Economists predicted an
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Riot police dismantle migrant camps in Calais France 1,000 migrants storm Spain’s Melilla enclave in Africa Major faction defects from Pakistan Taliban, splitting it in two Is this the end of the TTP (Pakistan
Corporate America was an early supporter of Obamacare, because CEOs thought they could “game the system” by dumping their sickest workers onto state and federal healthcare exchanges that are often subsidized by taxpayers. But in an unexpected financially important ruling,
