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The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle arrived in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi on Thursday (January 21), its 2,000-strong crew taking a break from nearly two months of intensive air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. The jihadist group lost control of the western Iraqi city of Ramadi last month, in a sorely needed victory for Iraqi forces backed by a U.S.-led international coalition. Rear Admiral Rene-Jean Crignola, the commander […]
U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter won agreement from defense ministers from France and five other nations on Wednesday to intensify the campaign against IS militants in Iraq and Syria. A bilateral meeting was held firstly between Ashton Carter and Jean-Yves Le Drian, France’s Defense Minister, to discuss the issue before the closed-door meeting among the defense ministers from the other five countries, including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, Italy and Germany. This is the […]
The northeastern French ski resort of Les Deux Alpes was on Wednesday night (January 13) in shock after three people died in an avalanche late in the afternoon, and after the judicial authority announced an investigation was being opened to determine responsibilities, as the killed and injured skiers were on a closed slope. The avalanche hit a school group of 19 teenagers and one of their teachers from a high school in Lyon, and other […]
The Place de la Republique, a square in Paris, was lit up in the colors of the French flag on Sunday night (January 10) to commemorate victims of Islamist militant attacks last year. Hundreds of people, including Parisians and sympathizers from around France and other countries trooped to the square for the event. It capped a week of commemoration events, one year after two brothers shot editorial staff members of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. France […]
Sasamantalahin din ni Pangulong Aquino sa kanyang biyahe sa France ang pakikipagpulong sa pangulo ng malalaking kumpanya para hikayating mamuhunan sa Pilipinas. https://youtu.be/wFp4yO7Nb5Y
(Courtesy CCTV) — French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Saturday handed over the key to Le Bourget to United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres, a symbol to shift the administration power of the commune to the UN ahead of the 2015 UN climate change conference in Paris. Receiving the “Key of Hope”, Figueres said she appreciates what France has done for the climate conference. After the ceremony, the French foreign minister took the UN climate […]
A French water and waste company has teamed up with the country’s crack counter-terrorism unit to protect water systems from terror attacks during global climate talks that kick off on November 30 in the French capital. Some 40,000 to 45,000 people are due to attend the event north of Paris and 138 heads of states have signed up for the opening ceremony, which takes place just over two weeks after jihadists murdered 130 people in […]
(Reuters) At least four of the Paris attackers were listed in a central counter-terrorism database maintained by the U.S. intelligence community, five U.S. officials said on Thursday. At least one and possibly more of the attackers was also on a more selective U.S. “no fly list”, three of the officials said, though they would not provide a specific number. In coordinated attacks in Paris last Friday, 129 people were killed and more than 300 were […]
French fighter jets intensified their raids on Syria on Tuesday night (November 17), targeting the Islamic State’s stronghold in Raqqa after the group claimed coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people, the defense ministry said. “The raid including 10 fighter jets, was launched from the Persian Gulf and Jordan. It successively bombarded two Islamic State command centres at 1830gmt,” the French military said in a written statement. Islamic State said it carried […]
The French military released on Sunday (September 27) footage showing its first air strikes in Syria, which it says destroyed an Islamic State training camp in the east of the country to prevent the group from carrying out attacks against the France’s interests and to protect Syrian civilians. France had until now only struck Islamic State targets in neighbouring Iraq, carrying out just 3 percent of air strikes in an offensive on the group by […]
(Reuters) – A fire in an apartment building in central Paris killed eight people on Wednesday (September 2), among them two children according to official sources. Four people were also injured in the fire whose cause remains unknown and which broke out at 0400 (0200GMT). It started on the ground floor before spreading into the stairwell of the building. A spokesman from the interior ministry said the firemen had been mobilized twice during the […]
(Reuters) — French President Francois Hollande on Monday (August 24) awarded France’s highest honour, the Legion d’honneur, to three U.S. citizens and a Briton who helped disarm a machine gun-toting suspected Islamist militant on a train last week. The award came a day after it was revealed that one of the Americans, Spencer Stone, also appeared to have saved the life of a fellow passenger. The suspect’s lawyer said on Sunday the man named by […]
