France votes on genocide law, faces Turkish reprisals
Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:12 AM PST
PARIS (Reuters) - French senators vote later on Monday on a bill to make it illegal to deny that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide, raising the prospect of a major diplomatic rift between two NATO allies. Lawmakers in the lower-house National Assembly voted overwhelmingly in December for the draft law outlawing genocide denial, prompting Ankara to ... |
N. Zealand recovers severed Maori heads from France
Channel NewsAsia Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:11 AM PST
PARIS: In a ceremony where music and singing mingled with calls to the spirit of the ancestors, New Zealand recovered 20 mummified Maori heads on Monday that had been held in French museums for nearly two centuries. |
Germany, France press for Greek debt deal
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:07 AM PST
PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany and France pressed on Monday for a rapid deal between Greece and its private creditors that returns its soaring debt to sustainable levels and said they remained committed to a new bailout that is needed by March to avert a disastrous default. Euro zone finance ministers are due to decide later on Monday what terms of a Greek debt restructuring they are ready to ... |
Celebrity and scandal merge at French HuffPost launch
InterAksyon Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:01 AM PST
Celebrity, scandal and new media converged in Paris Monday when shamed IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's wife launched Le Huffington Post with a promise her private life would not affect news coverage |
Cameron Diaz and Diane Kruger Kick Off Paris Fashion Week
PopSugar Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:59 AM PST
Cameron Diaz and Diane Kruger went with black and white this morning for the Versace show during Paris Fashion Week . It was an exciting morning for Cameron, who said, "You know I’m a sucker for anything glittery." The Fall 2012 events have kicked off in France, and the fun will move to NYC next week. Cameron and Diane stuck around after the catwalk closed to pose for photos with designer ... |
Euro, shares climb on fresh signs Greek deal may be reached
Reuters via Yahoo! News Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:51 AM PST
LONDON (Reuters) - The euro hit three-week highs against a broadly weaker dollar and shares moved up on fresh signs that a deal may be reached on a Greek debt restructuring, as euro zone finance ministers prepared to decide on acceptable terms for approving further bailout funds. Demand picked up after French Finance Minister Francois Baroin told journalists in Paris that a deal with private ... |
Walker's World: A Fourth Reich?
UPI Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:51 AM PST
By MARTIN WALKER UPI Editor Emeritus PARIS, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- There are moments, as this European drama of debt and deficit grinds on, when one wonders what Cecil von Renthe-Fink might have made of it. |
Innate Pharma Gains Most in 2 Months on Discovery: Paris Mover
BusinessWeek Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:50 AM PST
Innate Pharma SA, a French drug developer, rose the most in more than two months in Paris trading after the company said a discovery published in the journal Science may lead to new infection-fighting medicines. |
Maori Heads Returned To New Zealand From France
The Huffington Post Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:36 AM PST
PARIS â€" France has handed over to New Zealand authorities 20 tattooed heads of Maori ethnic people once held in several French museums as a cultural curiosity. |
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