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(REUTERS) Two attackers killed a priest with a blade and seriously wounded another hostage in a church in northern France on Tuesday before being shot dead by French police. There were no immediate details on the identity or motives of the two assailants but the investigation was handed to the anti-terrorist unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office. A police source said it appeared that the priest had his throat slit. The Vatican condemned what […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French President Francois Hollande was heading back to Paris early Friday for crisis talks, his office said, after a van drove into a crowd in the resort of Nice in what a local official said was a “major criminal attack”. “He is coming back to Paris and will go directly to Place Beauvau to the crisis cell,” the presidency said. Hollande had been in the southern city of Avignon on a […]
PARIS , France (AFP) — French President Francois Hollande confirmed Thursday that the EgyptAir flight that disappeared from radar screens over the Mediterranean had “crashed”. “We must ensure that we know everything on the causes of what happened. No hypothesis is ruled out or favored,” he said in a televised address. ha-cha/er/gd/jm © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
PARIS , France (AFP) — France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Thursday “no theory can be ruled out” in the missing EgyptAir flight which disappeared en route to Cairo from Paris. “No theory can be ruled out on the cause of this disappearance,” said Valls, speaking after the plane vanished from radar over the Mediterranean with 66 people on board. French President Francois Hollande and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi have “agreed to cooperate […]
PARIS , France (AFP) — French astrophysicist Andre Brahic, one of the discoverers of Neptune’s rings, died in Paris Sunday at the age of 73, his publisher Odile Jacob said. “He was a brilliant character… extraordinarily warm, profound and authentic ,a great scholar and also a storyteller, a writer,” said Jacob, who was close to Brahic. An expert on the solar system, in 1984 he launched a programme which led to the discovery, with US […]
by Carole Landry UNITED Nations, United States (AFP) — A record 175 countries, including the world’s top polluters China and the United States, signed the Paris climate deal Friday, boosting hopes of quick action on combating global warming. French President Francois Hollande was the first leader to put his signature to the accord during a ceremony at the United Nations, followed by leaders from island-states hardest hit by climate change. US Secretary of State […]
by Carole LANDRY UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) — World leaders gather at the United Nations on Friday to sign the Paris climate deal and get the ball rolling on a quick entry into force to start beating back global warming. French President Francois Hollande and Canada’s Justin Trudeau will join US Secretary of State John Kerry for the ceremony attended by more than 165 governments, the largest ever one-day signing of an international agreement. […]
PAPEETE, France (AFP) — French President Francois Hollande on Monday acknowledged that three decades of nuclear tests in French Polynesia had had “an impact” on health and the environment and promised a review of the victim compensation process. Hollande’s remarks, made on a visit to the French Polynesian capital, are the clearest admission yet of the damage caused by the testing programme. “I recognise that the nuclear tests between 1966 and 1996 in French Polynesia have had […]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday (January 28) that defeating “terrorism” had to be Syria’s main priority problem, not who is leading the war-ravaged country. Rouhani said that the main issue in the devastating five-year war in Syria was the threat from the Sunni militant group Islamic State and their supporters, and not Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “The problem today in Syria and the region is not a question of ‘this person’ or ‘that […]
(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 […]
(REUTERS) Sceptical euro zone finance ministers demanded on Saturday (July 11) that Greece go beyond painful austerity measures accepted by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras if he wants them to open negotiations on a third bailout for his bankrupt country to keep it in the euro. The ministers meeting in Brussels postponed until Sunday a decision on whether to recommend starting talks on a new loan for Athens and sought further commitments first on product market […]
French President Francois Hollande visits one of the areas in Samar that was damaged by supertyphoon “Yolanda” Hollande further offered a 50 million euro loan to help those who were affected by the supertyphoon.
