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* stephen hawking's univers
* tiger woods * jim fur
Barack Obama, China, Hu Jintao,
Melinda Hackett, manhattan
Moshe Katsav, bbc news
new zealand miners, louise heal
Vikram Pandit, bbc news, ft
Wilma Mankiller,
9/11, september 11, emily strato
Abdel Kareem Nabil Soliman, bbc
afghanistan, bbc news, the econo
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, bbc news
Ai Weiwei, bbc news
aids virus, aids, * hiv
Airbus A330, suzanne gould, bbc
airline security, bbc news
airport security, bbc news, biod
al-qaeda, natalie duval, yemen,
al-qaeda, new york city, suzanne
algeria, bbc news
amanda knox, bbc news, italy mur
american airlines, natalie de va
ancient rome, bbc news
arab spring, bbc news
arizona immigration law, bbc new
arms control, bbc news
arms flow to terrorists, bbc new
Arnold Schwarzenegger, bbc news
aung song suu kyi, myanmar, bbc
australia floods, bbc news
australia, cookbooks
australian shipwreck, bbc news
baltimore shooting, bbc news
ban aid, bob geldof, bbc world s
bangladesh clashes, bbc news
bat global markets, bbc news
bbc 2, biodun iginla
bbc news
bbc news, biodun iginla, david c
bbc news, biodun iginla, south k
bbc news, biodun iginla, the eco
bbc news, google
bbc strike, biodun iginla
bbc world service, biodun iginla
bcva, bbc news
belarus, bbc news, maria ogryzlo
Ben Bernanke, federal reserve
Benazir Bhutto, sunita kureishi,
benin, tokun lawal, bbc
Benjamin Netanyahu, bbc news
berlusconi, bbc news, italy
bill clinton ,emanuel, bbc news
bill clinton, Earth day, biodun
black friday, bbc news
black-listed nations, bbc news
blackwater, Gary Jackson, suzann
blogging in china, bbc news
bradley manning, bbc news
brazil floods, bbc news
brazil, biodun iginla, bbc news,
british elections, bbc news, bio
broadband, bbc news, the economi
Bruce Beresford-Redman. Monica
BSkyB bid, bbc news
budget deficit, bbc news,
bulgaria, natalie de vallieres,
business travel, bbc news
camilla parker-bowles, bbc news
canada, bbc news, biodun iginla
carleton college, bbc news, biod
casey anthony, bbc news
catholic church sex scandal, suz
cdc, e coli, suzanne gould, bbc
charlie rangel, bbc news
chicago mayorial race, bbc news,
chile miners, bbc news
chile prison fire, bbc news
chile, enrique krause, bbc news,
china, judith stein, bbc news, u
china, xian wan, bbc news, biodu
chinese dipolomat, houston polic
chinese media, bbc news
chirac, france, bbc news
cholera in haiti, biodun iginla
christina green, bbc news
Christine Lagarde, bbc news
Christine O'Donnell, tea party
chronical of higher education, b
citibank, bbc news
climate change, un, bbc news, bi
coal mines, west virginia, bbc n
common dreams
common dreams, bbc news, biodun
commonwealth games, bbc news
condi rice, obama
condoms, suzanne gould
congo, bbc news
congress, taxes, bbc news
contagion, islam, bbc news
continental airlines, bbc news
Continental Express flight, suza
corrupt nations, bbc news
Countrywide Financial Corporatio
cross-dressing, bbc news, emily
ctheory, bbc news, annalee newit
cuba, enrique krause, bbc news,
Cuba, Raúl Castro, Michael Voss
dealbook, bbc news, nytimes
digital life, bbc news
dorit cypis, bbc news, community
dow jones, judith stein, bbc new
egypt, nasra ismail, bbc news, M
elizabeth edwards, bbc news
elizabeth smart, bbc news
embassy bombs in rome, bbc news
emily's list, bbc news
entertainment, movies, biodun ig
equador, biodun iginla, bbc news
eu summit, bbc news, russia
eu, arab democracy, bbc news
europe travel delays, bbc news
europe travel, biodun iginla, bb
europe travel, france24, bbc new
eurozone crisis, bbc news
eurozone, ireland, bbc news
fair, media, bbc news
fake deaths, bbc news
FASHION - PARIS - PHOTOGRAPHY
fbi, bbc news
fcc, neutral internel, liz rose,
Federal Reserve, interest rates,
federal workers pay freeze, bbc
fedex, racism, bbc news
feedblitz, bbc news, biodun igin
ferraro, bbc news
fifa, soccer, bbc news
financial times, bbc news
firedoglake, jane hamsher, biodu
flashing, sex crimes, bbc news
fox, cable, new york, bbc
france, labor, biodun iginla
france24, bbc news, biodun iginl
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french hostages, bbc news
french muslims, natalie de valli
FT briefing, bbc news, biodun ig
g20, obama, bbc news
gabrielle giffords, bbc news
gambia, iran, bbcnews
gay-lesbian issues, emily strato
george bush, blair, bbc news
germans held in Nigeria, tokun l
germany, natalie de vallieres, b
global economy, bbc news
goldman sachs, judith stein, bbc
google news, bbc news, biodun ig
google, gianni maestro, bbc news
google, groupon, bbc news
gop, bbc news
Gov. Jan Brewer, bbc news, immig
greece bailout, bbc news, biodun
guantanamo, bbc news
gulf oil spill, suzanne gould, b
Hackers, MasterCard, Security, W
haiti aid, enrique krause, bbc n
haiti, michelle obama, bbc news
heart disease, bbc news
Heather Locklear, suzanne gould,
Henry Kissinger, emily straton,
Henry Okah, nigeria, tokun lawal
hillary clinton, bbc news
hillary clinton, cuba, enrique k
hugo chavez, bbc news
hungary, maria ogryzlo
hurricane katrina, bbc news
Ibrahim Babangida, nigeria, toku
india, susan kumar
indonesia, bbc news, obama admin
inside edition, bbc news, biodun
insider weekly, bbc news
insider-trading, bbc news
International Space Station , na
iran, latin america, bbc news
iran, lebanon, Ahmadinejad ,
iran, nuclear weapons, bbc news
iran, wikileaks, bbc news
iraq, al-qaeda, sunita kureishi,
iraq, nasras ismail, bbc news, b
ireland, bbc news, eu
islam, bbc news, biodun iginla
israeli-palestinian conflict, na
italy, eurozone crisis
ivory coast, bbc news
James MacArthur, hawaii five-O
Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, biodun igi
jane hansher, biodun iginla
japan, bbc news, the economist
jerry brown, bbc news
Jerry Brown, suzanne gould, bbc
jill clayburgh, bbc news
Jody Weis, chicago police, bbc n
John Paul Stevens, scotus,
juan williams, npr, biodun iginl
judith stein, bbc news
Justice John Paul Stevens, patri
K.P. Bath, bbc news, suzanne gou
keith olbermann, msnbc, bbc news
kelly clarkson, indonesia, smoki
kenya, bbc news, police
Khodorkovsky, bbc news
Kyrgyz, maria ogryzlo, bbc news,
le monde, bbc nerws
le monde, bbc news, biodun iginl
lebanon, nasra ismail, biodun ig
Lech Kaczynski
libya, gaddafi, bbc news,
london ftse, bbc news
los alamos fire, bbc news
los angeles, bbc news, suzanne g
los angeles, suzanne gould, bbc
LulzSec, tech news, bbc news
madoff, bbc news, suicide
marijuana, weed, bbc news, suzan
Martin Dempsey, bbc news
maryland, bbc news
media, FAIR, bbc news
media, free press, fcc, net neut
media, media matters for america
media, mediabistro, bbc news
melissa gruz, bbc news, obama ad
mexican drug cartels, enrique kr
mexican gas explosion, bbc news
mexican's execution, bbc news
Michael Skakel, emily straton, b
Michelle Obama, bbc news
michigan militia, suzanne gould,
middle-class jobs, bbc news
midwest snowstorm, bbc news
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, bbc news
minnesota public radio
moveon, bbc news, biodun iginla
msnbc, david shuster, bbc news
mumbai attacks, bbc news
myanmar, burma, bbc news
nancy pelosi, us congress, bbc n
nasra ismail, israeli-palestinia
Natalia Lavrova, olympic games,
Nathaniel Fons, child abandonmen
nato, afghanistan, bbc news
nato, pakistan, sunita kureishi,
nelson mandela, bbc news
nestor kirchner, bbc news
net neutrality, bbc news
new life-forms, bbc news
new year, 2011, bbc news
new york city, homelessness, chi
new york snowstorm, bbc news
new zealand miners, bbc news
News Corporation, bbc news
news of the world, bbc news
nick clegg, uk politics, tories
nicolas sarkozy, islam, natalie
nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, toku
nobel peace prize
nobel peace prize, bbc news, bio
noreiga, panama, biodun iginla,
north korea, bbc news, nuclear p
npr, bbc news, gop
npr, media, bbc news
ntenyahu, obama, bbc news
nuclear proliferation, melissa g
Nuri al-Maliki, iraq, biodun igi
nytimes dealbook, bbc news
obama, bill clinton, bbc news
obama, biodun iginla, bbc news
oil spills, bbc news, the econom
olbermann, msnbc, bbc news
Omar Khadr, bbc news
Online Media, bbc news, the econ
pakistan, sunita kureishi, bbc n
paris airport, bbc news
Pedro Espada, suzanne gould, bbc
phone-hack scandal, bbc news
poland, maria ogryzlo, lech Kac
police brutality, john mckenna,
police fatalities, bbc news
Pope Benedict XVI, natalie de va
pope benedict, natalie de vallie
popular culture, us politics
portugal, bbc news
Potash Corporation, bbc news
prince charles, bbc news
prince william, katemiddleton, b
pulitzer prizes, bbc news, biodu
qantas, airline security, bbc ne
racism, religious profiling, isl
randy quaid, asylum, canada
Ratko Mladic, bbc news
Rebekah Brooks, bbc news, the ec
republicans, bbc news
richard holbrooke, bbc news
Rick Santorum , biodun iginla, b
robert gates, lapd, suzanne goul
rod Blagojevich, suzanne gould,
roger clemens, bbc news
russia, imf, bbc news, the econo
russia, maria ogrylo, Lech Kaczy
san francisco crime lab, Deborah
sandra bullock, jess james, holl
SARAH EL DEEB, bbc news, biodun
sarah palin, biodun iginla, bbc
sarkosy, bbc news
saudi arabia, indonesian maid, b
saudi arabia, nasra ismail, bbc
Schwarzenegger, bbc news, biodun
science and technology, bbc news
scott brown, tufts university, e
scotus, gays in the military
scotus, iraq war, bbc news, biod
sec, judith stein, us banks, bbc
Senate Democrats, bbc news, biod
senegal, chad, bbc news
seward deli, biodun iginla
shanghai fire, bbc news
Sidney Thomas, melissa gruz, bbc
silvio berlusconi, bbc news
single currency, bbc news, the e
snowstorm, bbc news
social security, bbc news, biodu
somali pirates, bbc news
somalia, al-shabab, biodun iginl
south korea, north korea, bbc ne
south sudan, bbc news
spain air strikes, bbc news
spain, standard and poor, bbc ne
state of the union, bbc news
steve jobs, bbc news
steven ratner, andrew cuomo, bbc
Strauss-Kahn, bbc news, biodun i
sudan, nasra ismail, bbc news, b
suicide websites, bbc news
supreme court, obama, melissa gr
sweden bomb attack, bbc news
syria, bbc news
taliban, bbc news, biodun iginla
Taoufik Ben Brik, bbc news, biod
tariq aziz, natalie de vallieres
tariq azziz, jalal talbani, bbc
tea party, us politics
tech news, bbc, biodun iginla
technology, internet, economics
thailand, xian wan, bbc news, bi
the economist, biodun iginla, bb
the economsit, bbc news, biodun
the insider, bbc news
tiger woods. augusta
timothy dolan, bbc news
Timothy Geithner, greece, eu, bi
tornadoes, mississippi, suzanne
travel, bbc news
tsa (travel security administrat
tsumami in Indonesia, bbc news,
tunisia, bbc news, biodun iginla
turkey, israel, gaza strip. biod
Turkey, the eu, natalie de valli
twincities daily planet, bbc new
twincities.com, twin cities dail
twitter, media, death threats, b
Tyler Clementi, hate crimes, bio
uk elections, gordon brown, raci
uk phone-hack, Milly Dowler
uk tuition increase, bbc news
un wire, un, bbc news, biodun ig
un, united nations, biodun iginl
unwed mothers, blacks, bbc news
upi, bbc news, iginla
us billionaires, bbc news
us economic downturn, melissa gr
us economy, us senate, us congre
us empire, bbc news, biodun igin
us housing market, bbc news
us jobs, labor, bbc news
us media, bbc news, biodun iginl
us media, media matters for amer
us midterm elections, bbc news
us midterm elections, melissa gr
us military, gay/lesbian issues
us politics, bbc news, the econo
us recession, judith stein, bbc
us stimulus, bbc news
us taxes, bbc news, the economis
us, third-world, bbc news
vatican, natalie de vallieres
venezuela, bbc news
verizon, biodun iginla, bbc news
volcanic ash, iceland, natalie d
volcanis ash, bbc news, biodun i
wal-mat, sexism, bbc news
wall street reform, obama, chris
wall street regulations, banking
warren buffett, us economic down
weather in minneapolis, bbc news
white supremacist, Richard Barre
wikileaks, bbc news, biodun igin
wvirginia coal mine, biodun igin
wvirginia mines, biodun iginal,
xian wan, china , nobel prize
xian wan, japan
yahoo News, biodun iginla, bbc n
yahoo, online media, new media,
yemen, al-qaeda, nasra ismail, b
zimbabwe, mugabe, biodun iginla
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Friday, 15 July 2011
Bastille celebrations clouded by Afghanistan deaths
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Monday, 16 May 2011
France24 Newsletter by Biodun Iginla, BBC News and France24
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Wednesday, 19 January 2011
France 24 Observers by Biodun Iginla, BBC News, The Economist, France 24
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Monday, 17 January 2011
France 24 Weekend Review by Biodun Iginla, BBC News, The Economist, France 24
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Tunisia: Interim leadership to unveil new government in wake of street battles
| Lebanon: Fears of sectarian violencerife ahead of Hariri assassination indictments
| FRANCE 24 journalist assaulted by National Front security at party congress
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Israel: Defence Minister Barak to quit Labour and create new party
| Ivory Coast: 'God has given us victory', Gbagbo's wife tells rally
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India: More than 100 pilgrims killed in festival stampede
| Profile: Ben Ali, president-for-life no more
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Thursday, 13 January 2011
France 24 Newsletter by Biodun Iginla, BBC News, The Economist, France 24
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| WORLDFive people were killed in clashes with Tunisian police Wednesday as protestors defied a curfew to stem the growing unrest over unemployment, corruption and government repression. US President Barack Obama appealed for civility in the political discourse at a Tucson memorial service for the victims of the Arizona shooting. He also said that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had opened her eyes for the first time since being shot. Lebanon's government collapsed Wednesday after 11 ministers from Hezbollah and its allies announced their resignations from the national unity cabinet led by Prime Minister Saad Hariri. Mudslides and floods triggered by sudden, heavy rain have swept away entire neighbourhoods in a mountainous tourist area near Rio, killing nearly 270 people, Brazilian officials said. Women and young girls live in constant fear in Haiti’s squalid refugee camps where hundreds of them have fallen victim to rape. In most cases, the perpetrators walk away scot-free. BUSINESSFrance's Airbus unveiled a mega-order for its new, eco-conscious A320neo jet by the Indian airline IndiGo. The European aircraft manufacturer is calling the deal the largest of its kind in aviation history. Japan said Tuesday it was ready to buy euro zone bonds in a mark of support for the struggling trading bloc. Analysts say Tokyo could do with some goodwill after its market intervention to curb the yen drew fire from its trading partners. China has denied any connection to the industrial espionage scandal at French carmaker Renault, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. French intelligence services are reportedly investigating the issue. Auto sales in China rocketed 32% in 2010, hitting 18.06 million units sold. The figure is a new record and comfortably secures China’s position as the world’s biggest auto-industry market. Bangladesh suspended trading on the Dhaka Stock Exchange Monday when stocks fell a record 9.25 percent causing security officials to use batons and tear gas to disperse angry investors upset over the market plunge. SPORTSAnnecy, in the French Alps, is one of three cities bidding to host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. On Monday businessman Charles Beigbeder was appointed to lead the city’s bid team. FRANCE24 interviews the man now charged with the task. England's Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen (pictured) has had another injury setback, forcing manager Arsene Wenger to look for a replacement. Vermaelen has been out with an Achilles' injury but was expected to return in January. Argentina forward Lionel Messi has won the 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or, which rewards the best football player of the year. Messi defeated Barcelona teammates Andres Iniesta and Xavi Fernandez, who were favoured to take the coveted award. French champions Olympique Marseille joined a long list of Ligue 1 losers Sunday after crashing out 3-1 against second division leaders Evian Thonon Gaillard in the French Cup competition. After six difficult months, Liverpool and manager Roy Hodgson have parted company. Former manager Kenny Dalglish will take charge for the club’s hotly anticipated FA Cup match against rivals Manchester United. CULTURERobert De Niro will serve as jury president for the 64th annual Cannes festival (from May 11 to 22). The announcement made on Thursday is evidence that the love affair between France and the US actor is back on. A judge on Tuesday ordered Michael Jackson's doctor to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter for allegedly giving the pop star a fatal dose of sedatives. Conrad Murray (pictured) also had his license to practice medicine in California suspended. Emmanuelle Alt will succeed Carine Roitfield in one of the most coveted jobs in fashion journalism: the editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris. Roitfield, the apparent heir to Anna Wintour, resigned suddenly to pursue "unspecified personal projects." US filmmaker Sofia Coppola’s new film “Somewhere” has strong autobiographical undertones, but it’s also a gamble: a movie from Hollywood and about Hollywood that refuses to play by Hollywood rules. Foreigners who travel to China often come back with grizzly tales of the weird and wonderful things they had to eat there: silk worms, dried seahorses or even sheep penises. But our Chinese Observer say most locals would never put such things in their mouths. SCIENCEResearchers in Israel say women's tears act as a major turnoff for men, their smell decreasing the level of testosterone hormones in males. Scientists say more work is needed to determine which chemical elicited the reaction in men. Isabelle Caro, an anorexic French model who caused a stir in 2007 when she was photographed nude for a campaign against eating disorders, has died at the age of 28. French health officials warned Wednesday that the country is officially in the clutches of a flu epidemic after the number of cases reached 176,000, two of which were fatal. The notorious "swine flu" is among three strains causing infection. FRANCEOfficials in Niamey on Wednesday denied claims by French Defence Minister Alain Juppé (right) that Niger was questioning two al Qaeda suspects in connection with the kidnapping and murder of two Frenchmen, saying no such suspects were being held. France's opposition Socialist Party announced on Tuesday that it will hold two rounds of primaries on October 9 and October 16 to determine who will be the party's candidate to challenge President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012. France has not changed its policy of seeking a peaceful resolution to kidnappings, Prime Minister François Fillon said Tuesday, after two French hostages died in a botched rescue attempt in Mali on Saturday. The men were kidnapped last week in Niger. China has denied any connection to the industrial espionage scandal at French carmaker Renault, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. French intelligence services are reportedly investigating the issue. US President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged to work in tandem to rectify imbalances in the global economy at talks in Washington on Monday. France now holds the rotating presidencies of both the G8 and the G20. EUROPESwiss police said they were seeking witnesses after an attempted fire bombing of the Tunisian embassy in Berne Wednesday. It follows the worst wave of violence in the 23-year rule of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. Russian aviation officials said Wednesday that a Polish air force commander who had been drinking pressured the crew of a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski to land in bad weather. The April 2010 crash killed Kaczynski and 95 others. A Swedish request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be reviewed on Feb. 7-8, a London court said Tuesday. Assange said after the hearing that his whistleblowing site would be "stepping up" its publication of classified documents. The Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent ceasefire Monday in a statement published in the pro-nationalist newspaper Gara. It is the first time that ETA has unilaterally declared a ceasefire in its 40 years of existence. Some 4,700 German farms have been preemptively closed after reports emerged of dioxin contamination in animal feed. Eggs from some of the affected farms are believed to have been exported to Britain and the Netherlands. MIDDLE-EASTLebanon's government collapsed Wednesday after 11 ministers from Hezbollah and its allies announced their resignations from the national unity cabinet led by Prime Minister Saad Hariri. At least 77 people were killed in Sunday's crash of a passenger plane in Iran's northwestern province of Azarbayjan-e Gharbi, state media reported on Monday. Investigators continue to search for clues to what caused the fatal emergency landing. Coptic Christians in Egypt gathered solemnly for Christmas services on Friday as armoured cars and explosives experts were dispatched to protect holiday services following the deaths of 21 people in a church bombing on New Year’s Day. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Egypt on Thursday for talks with President Hosni Mubarak on how to overcome an impasse in peace negotiations with the Palestinians. The two men will meet in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Iran on Tuesday said it had invited foreign envoys, including European Union representatives, to tour its nuclear facilities in an attempt to demonstrate the "cooperative nature" of its nuclear ambitions ahead of talks in Istanbul later this month. AFRICAFive people were killed in clashes with Tunisian police Wednesday as protestors defied a curfew to stem the growing unrest over unemployment, corruption and government repression. President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali on Wednesday appointed a new interior minister and ordered most of those arrested during weeks of protests against unemployment and rising prices to be released. At least 23 people have been killed in the unrest. More than 60 percent of registered voters have cast ballots in South Sudan's referendum, crossing the threshold needed for it to secede from Sudan, a southern official said Wednesday. The combination of sun, sea, sand and stability has made Tunisia a popular tourist destination for decades. But will the recent deadly social unrest undermine the so-called “Tunisian economic miracle”? At least four people were killed in clashes Tuesday between supporters of Ivory Coast's rival presidential candidates Alassane Ouattara and incumbent Laurent Gbagbo, media reports say. Both men claimed victory after a disputed November run-off. AMERICASUS President Barack Obama appealed for civility in the political discourse at a Tucson memorial service for the victims of the Arizona shooting. He also said that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had opened her eyes for the first time since being shot. Flooding and mudslides after days of heavy summer rain have killed at least 99 people in south-eastern Brazil and the death toll is expected to rise, officials said on Wednesday. Mountainous areas near Rio de Janeiro were some of the worst affected. Women and young girls live in constant fear in Haiti’s squalid refugee camps where hundreds of them have fallen victim to rape. In most cases, the perpetrators walk away scot-free. January 12 marks the one-year anniversary of the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti that left 230,000 people dead and millions homeless. The country is grappling with an outbreak of cholera and widespread protests against recent presidential election results. Though the shooting in Arizona has been condemned as a tragedy across the political spectrum, it has also injected new venom into the relationship between Democrats and the Tea Party movement. ASIA-PACIFICA suicide bomber crashed an explosives-packed car into a police station near the north-western Pakistani town of Bannu on Wednesday, killing 18 people and badly damaging a nearby mosque. Police said most of the victims were security personnel. Floodwaters in Brisbane crested on Thursday about a metre below worst-case predictions but still caused massive damage to Australia's third-largest city. Thousands of residents fled their homes in the days before the waters reached their peak. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of Pakistan's ruling party, on Monday condemned the killing of a politician for seeking changes to blasphemy laws, and called those celebrating his death "the real blasphemers". Thousands of people fled Brisbane on Tuesday as authorities called for areas of Australia’s third-largest city to evacuate ahead of rising floodwaters. Officials said 6,500 properties downtown were at risk after the Brisbane River burst its banks. Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri (pictured), the man arrested for fatally shooting Punjabi Governor Salman Taseer, confessed on Monday to killing the liberal politician for opposing Pakistan's blasphemy laws and said that he acted alone.
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Saturday, 8 January 2011
France 24 Newsletter by Biodun Iginla, BBC News, The Economist, France 24
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| WORLDAlgerian protesters angered by rising food prices and widespread unemployment have clashed with police in a third day of rioting that has highlighted growing anxiety among the country's youth. West African grouping ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) has threatened to use force to oust incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo. The military option though could have dramatic consequences for the country - and region. Allegations of industrial espionage at French carmaker Renault have become a matter of state, with an anonymous French government source raising fears that Chinese rivals attempted to steal cutting-edge electric car technology. A year after hundreds of thousands of Haitians were forced into precarious housing conditions following a devastating earthquake, Amnesty International has published a report citing rampant sexual violence against women in refugee camps. A key member of Pakistan's fragile governing coalition has reversed its decision to join the opposition in parliament after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (pictured) agreed to back down on a contentious fuel price hike. BUSINESSUS unemployment fell to its lowest level since May 2009 last month, shrinking to 9.4 percent, the Labor Department said Friday. Some 103,000 jobs were added to the economy during December, a figure economists had hoped would be twice as large. LG, Samsung, Panasonic and other technology giants at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show 2011 reveal their latest gadgets to the world. Follow this grand technophile gathering with FRANCE 24 to get a glimpse of what’s hot in tech this year. Allegations of industrial espionage at French carmaker Renault have become a matter of state, with an anonymous French government source raising fears that Chinese rivals attempted to steal cutting-edge electric car technology. Global food prices rose to a record high in December and are expected to climb even further, topping 2008 levels when riots broke out in a number of countries, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation warned Wednesday. Leaked embassy cables show that US diplomats aggressively pushed foreign governments to purchase Boeing airplanes, helping the US aviation giant in the bitter transatlantic battle with its European rival, Airbus. SPORTSEngland crushed Australia by 83 runs and an innings to claim the final Test in Sydney and win their first Ashes series Down Under in more than two decades. From the exceptional run of the national handball squad to the embarrassing show at the Word Cup in South Africa, France24.com takes a look at the best and worst French sports performances of 2010. Arsenal missed a chance to go joint-top after conceding a late equaliser at 10-man Wigan on Wednesday, while Chelsea ended their poor run with victory over Bolton and Liverpool capped a miserable year with a home defeat to Wolves. Top 14 leaders Toulouse kept up the pace with a comfortable win at Agen on Wednesday as Toulon slipped 11 points adrift after defeat by Bayonne. Elsewhere, reigning champions Clermont saw off runners-up Perpignan in a tight contest. England crushed Australia by an innings and 157 runs on Wednesday to wrap up the fourth Test in Melbourne and claim a 2-1 lead in the series, ensuring the tourists will return from down under with the coveted Ashes for the first time in 24 years. CULTUREVeteran US actor Robert de Niro has been chosen to chair the Cannes film festival jury this year. He will be the third American in four years to head the jury, following fellow nationals Sean Penn and Tim Burton. US filmmaker Sofia Coppola’s new film “Somewhere” has strong autobiographical undertones, but it’s also a gamble: a movie from Hollywood and about Hollywood that refuses to play by Hollywood rules. Foreigners who travel to China often come back with grizzly tales of the weird and wonderful things they had to eat there: silk worms, dried seahorses or even sheep penises. But our Chinese Observer say most locals would never put such things in their mouths. Right-wing US bloggers have reacted angrily to DC Comics's decision to cast a Muslim character, Bilah Asselah, as the superhero in charge of Batman's crime-fighting franchise in France. Pete Postlethwaite, a craggy-faced British actor who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in "In the Name of the Father", has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 64. SCIENCEResearchers in Israel say women's tears act as a major turnoff for men, their smell decreasing the level of testosterone hormones in males. Scientists say more work is needed to determine which chemical elicited the reaction in men. Isabelle Caro, an anorexic French model who caused a stir in 2007 when she was photographed nude for a campaign against eating disorders, has died at the age of 28. French health officials warned Wednesday that the country is officially in the clutches of a flu epidemic after the number of cases reached 176,000, two of which were fatal. The notorious "swine flu" is among three strains causing infection. Mediator was launched on the French market in 1976 for diabetics. But it was widely used (mostly by women) as an appetite suppressant until its ban in 2009. FRANCEAllegations of industrial espionage at French carmaker Renault have become a matter of state, with an anonymous French government source raising fears that Chinese rivals attempted to steal cutting-edge electric car technology. French journalist and famed TV personality Patrick Poivre d’Arvor is no stranger to controversy and scandal. But new accusations of rampant plagiarism in his biography of Ernest Hemingway have stirred up a media storm. Undercover journalists filming a special report for a French television channel successfully carried a 9-mm semi-automatic pistol onto two separate internal flights, reigniting the debate about security in France's airports. Right-wing US bloggers have reacted angrily to DC Comics's decision to cast a Muslim character, Bilah Asselah, as the superhero in charge of Batman's crime-fighting franchise in France. A man arrested Wednesday after exploding a gas cylinder at the French embassy in the Malian capital Bamako claims to be a member of al Qaeda's North African branch with a personal "hatred" of France. Two people were slightly injured in the attack. EUROPESome 4,700 German farms have been preemptively closed after reports emerged of dioxin contamination in animal feed. Eggs from some of the affected farms are believed to have been exported to Britain and the Netherlands. Belgium's lengthy political crisis deepened further on Thursday as mediator Johan Vande Lanotte (pictured) offered his resignation after failing to build a consensus between Flemish and French-speaking parties. A passenger aboard a Turkish Airlines flight en route from Oslo to Istanbul tried to force the plane to return to Oslo on Wednesday, claiming to have a bomb. The man, a Turkish national, was eventually overpowered and subdued by other passengers. Greece's immigration minister on Monday defended plans to block a portion of Greece's border with Turkey to halt illegal immigration into the European Union. The UN refugee agency has urged Greece to ensure entry for legitimate asylum-seekers. Hungary's EU presidency, already clouded by a press freedom row, stumbled further on its first working day when the European Commission said it was investigating the legality of a "crisis" tax imposed by the centre-right government. MIDDLE-EASTCoptic Christians in Egypt gathered solemnly for Christmas services on Friday as armoured cars and explosives experts were dispatched to protect holiday services following the deaths of 21 people in a church bombing on New Year’s Day. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Egypt on Thursday for talks with President Hosni Mubarak on how to overcome an impasse in peace negotiations with the Palestinians. The two men will meet in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Iran on Tuesday said it had invited foreign envoys, including European Union representatives, to tour its nuclear facilities in an attempt to demonstrate the "cooperative nature" of its nuclear ambitions ahead of talks in Istanbul later this month. Israeli authorities have arrested two local workers at the British consulate general in Jerusalem for their alleged links to a plot to attack a football stadium, British officials said Monday. The men have been charged with illegally selling weapons. An Israeli court has convicted former President Moshe Katsav on two counts of rape for assaulting a former employee, capping a highly-publicised legal saga that has seen the most serious charges ever waged against an Israeli public official. AFRICAWest African grouping ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) has threatened to use force to oust incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo. The military option though could have dramatic consequences for the country - and region. Protesting youths clashed with security forces on Wednesday night in the neighbourhood of Bab el-Oued in Algiers. Our Observer, who witnessed the riots, tells us why this impoverished and historically restive neighbourhood is once again up in arms. Coptic Christians in Egypt gathered solemnly for Christmas services on Friday as armoured cars and explosives experts were dispatched to protect holiday services following the deaths of 21 people in a church bombing on New Year’s Day. The suicide of a young Tunisian university graduate in protest at rising unemployment has set off a wave of unrest and resonated with a generation of North African youth who see no opportunity to better their lives. A man arrested Wednesday after exploding a gas cylinder at the French embassy in the Malian capital Bamako claims to be a member of al Qaeda's North African branch with a personal "hatred" of France. Two people were slightly injured in the attack. AMERICASA year after hundreds of thousands of Haitians were forced into precarious housing conditions following a devastating earthquake, Amnesty International has published a report citing rampant sexual violence against women in refugee camps. US unemployment fell to its lowest level since May 2009 last month, shrinking to 9.4 percent, the Labor Department said Friday. Some 103,000 jobs were added to the economy during December, a figure economists had hoped would be twice as large. US President Barack Obama will on Friday appoint Gene Sperling (right) to head the National Economic Council, a post Sperling held during Bill Clinton's second presidential term in an era of robust economic growth and an eventual budget surplus. Eight people are dead and three are wounded after gunmen opened fire on a minibus in the eastern province of Olancho in Honduras. According to a government spokesperson, the attack targeted one or two of the passengers. Cuban President Raul Castro (left) announced a cabinet shakeup on Thursday, relieving a longtime veteran of the Cuban revolution of his post as communications minister and sacking the minister of construction for "errors committed in his job". ASIA-PACIFICA suicide bomber killed at least 17 people midday as they prepared for Friday prayers in an Afghan bathhouse near the border with Pakistan. The Taliban, who claimed responsibility for the attack, said they were targeting a border patrol officer. A key member of Pakistan's fragile governing coalition has reversed its decision to join the opposition in parliament after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (pictured) agreed to back down on a contentious fuel price hike. Pakistan's prime minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani, announced Thursday the government would reverse a deeply unpopular fuel price hike in an apparent concession to its former coalition partner, the Pakistan Muslim League. An Australian army general has been appointed the task of heading the massive recovery programme in the country's north-east following devastating flood damage that has closed 40 mines and damaged over 10,000 homes. Pakistani police charged one of the bodyguards of Punjab governor Salman Taseer with his murder Wednesday, as the moderate politician – one of the country’s strongest voices in the fight against radical Islam – was buried in Lahore.
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Friday, 31 December 2010
France 24 the year 2010 in review by Biodun Iginla, BBC News, The Economist, France 24
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| Friday 31 December 2010 - 14:36 (GTM+01:00) | |
2010: A global year in review The year in Africa in debate The best of culture in 2010 From gaffes to glory: a year in French sport Best amateur videos of 2010 |
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Thursday, 30 December 2010
France 24 Newsletter by Biodun Iginla, BBC News, The Economist, France 24
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| Thursday December 30, 2010 08:15 (Paris time) |
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| WORLDIncumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo's most notorious lieutenant called Wednesday for Ivorian youths loyal to Gbagbo to lay siege to presidential challenger Alassane Ouattara's hotel headquarters on Saturday to "liberate" the country. Gabon's late ruler Omar Bongo (right) allegedly embezzled millions of dollars and helped fund several French politicians, including former president Jacques Chirac (left) and President Nicolas Sarkozy, say WikiLeaks reports published Wednesday. The United States says it has revoked the visa of Venezuela's ambassador to Washington (pictured) in response to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's decision to reject the proposed US envoy to Caracas. Journalists Stéphane Taponier and Hervé Ghesquière have been hostages in Afghanistan for 365 days as of Wednesday. The French government is negotiating their release but has refused to commit to a timetable. (Photo: Reporters Without Borders) Danish and Swedish police said Wednesday that five people had been arrested on suspicion of planning an attack on a Copenhagen building housing a newspaper that angered some Muslims in 2005 by printing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. BUSINESSNot every EU country is pushing through harsh austerity measures. Hungary, which takes over the block's rotating presidency on January 1st 2011, is actually cutting income tax and raising benefits. Our correspondent went to Budapest to find out more. US consumer confidence dipped by nearly 2% in December as prices of single-family homes tumbled at almost twice the pace projected in October, undermining optimism that the country's economy could be taking a turn for the better. The French national statistics agency INSEE reported diminished economic growth estimates for the country's second and third quarters on Tuesday, threatening to derail government plans to reach an overall growth rate of 1.6% in 2010. Even a strike on London's Underground metro system that caused most trains to be suspended could not keep shoppers from flocking to the traditional Boxing Day sales on Sunday. A court in Brazil has ordered Air France to pay $727,000 (€540,000) to the family of a woman who died in the June 2009 crash of flight 447 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, which claimed the lives of all 228 people on board. SPORTSEngland crushed Australia by an innings and 157 runs on Wednesday to wrap up the fourth Test in Melbourne and claim a 2-1 lead in the series, ensuring the tourists will return from down under with the coveted Ashes for the first time in 24 years. England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson has agreed to a contract extension with French club Toulon in a move that may jeopardise his chances of making the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand. Arsenal moved to within two points of Premier League leaders Manchester United on Monday with a convincing 3-1 win over title holders Chelsea at the Emirates, their first victory against their London rivals in two years. France's 20-year-old sprinter Christophe Lemaitre, who became the first white athlete to break the 10 seconds barrier over 100 metres in July, has been named French Sportsman of the Year by sports daily L'Equipe. Brazilian coach Leonardo has been appointed to manage European champions Inter Milan, taking over from the sacked Rafael Benitez. Leonardo becomes the first man to have coached both Milan clubs. CULTUREStarring in the striking erotic drama “Le Sentiment de la chair” (released in France on December 29), Thibault Vinçon is a young and promising actor. France24.com sat down with him for an exclusive chat. We look back at the major cultural events of 2010. Who made it big at the box office? Whose song made it onto everyone's iPod? And who's the new enfant terrible of the art world? A court in Tehran has sentenced Jafar Panahi, an acclaimed filmmaker and vocal supporter of the opposition, to six years in jail and banned him from producing material or leaving the country for 20 years. Today we are talking Christmas masterpieces and last minute gifts with two British books that have just been released here in France: "Foolish Mortals" by Jennifer Johnston and "Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien". French scholar Jacqueline de Romilly, an expert on ancient Greece who in 1988 became only the second woman to enter the Académie Française, died Saturday aged 97. President Nicolas Sarkozy called her "a great humanist whose voice we will miss". SCIENCEFrench health officials warned Wednesday that the country is officially in the clutches of a flu epidemic after the number of cases reached 176,000, two of which were fatal. The notorious "swine flu" is among three strains causing infection. Mediator was launched on the French market in 1976 for diabetics. But it was widely used (mostly by women) as an appetite suppressant until its ban in 2009. Mediator was designed for diabetics to help them lose weight. It was also based on the amphetamine group of drugs and has killed between 500 and 2,000 people in France, despite the authorities having been warned well in advance. FRANCEGabon's late ruler Omar Bongo (right) allegedly embezzled millions of dollars and helped fund several French politicians, including former president Jacques Chirac (left) and President Nicolas Sarkozy, say WikiLeaks reports published Wednesday. Journalists Stéphane Taponier and Hervé Ghesquière have been hostages in Afghanistan for 365 days as of Wednesday. The French government is negotiating their release but has refused to commit to a timetable. (Photo: Reporters Without Borders) French health officials warned Wednesday that the country is officially in the clutches of a flu epidemic after the number of cases reached 176,000, two of which were fatal. The notorious "swine flu" is among three strains causing infection. Exactly one hundred years after the Seine broke its banks, paralyzing Paris for a month, the French capital's iconic river is once again threatening to overrun the city of lights. France's foreign intelligence service said Tuesday it has received proof that one of its secret agents, Denis Allex, is alive. Allex was taken hostage in Mogadishu by an Islamist group on July 14, 2009. EUROPEMontenegro's parliament on Wednesday approved Igor Luksic to serve as prime minister. Luksic takes over from the Balkans' longest-serving leader, Milo Djukanovic, who resigned last week after more than 20 years on the country's political scene. Danish and Swedish police said Wednesday that five people had been arrested on suspicion of planning an attack on a Copenhagen building housing a newspaper that angered some Muslims in 2005 by printing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Not every EU country is pushing through harsh austerity measures. Hungary, which takes over the block's rotating presidency on January 1st 2011, is actually cutting income tax and raising benefits. Our correspondent went to Budapest to find out more. Mikhail Khodorkovsky got too rich and too powerful as the Soviet Union collapsed, for either the Russian public or for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who has shown a strong personal enmity for the onetime Yukos oil tycoon. Italian investigators are investigating possible links between a parcel bomb delivered to the Greek embassy in Rome on Monday and similar devices that exploded at the Chilean and Swiss missions last week and were later claimed by an anarchist group. MIDDLE-EASTIsrael "will not apologise" to Turkey over a military raid on an aid flotilla during which nine Turkish activists were killed last May. Israeli soldiers acted according to standards, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Iran has hanged a man found guilty of working as a "spy" for Israeli intelligence service Mossad, state media say. Espionage is punishable by death under Iranian law. Iraqi lawmakers have confirmed Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's cabinet choices more than nine months after inconclusive elections plunged the country's fledgling democracy into chaos. Two rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel early on Sunday after the death of two Palestinian militants in a border firefight. Tit-for-tat violence has risen ahead of the second anniversary of Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip. This Christmas will be the last in Iraq for most of the remaining US troops there, with only 50,000 left in the country after the end of combat operations. All troops will be fully withdrawn by the end of 2011. AFRICAIncumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo's most notorious lieutenant called Wednesday for Ivorian youths loyal to Gbagbo to lay siege to presidential challenger Alassane Ouattara's hotel headquarters on Saturday to "liberate" the country. The former vice president of Comoros and ruling party candidate, Ikililou Dhoinine (pictured), was declared the winner of the island nation's presidential poll in official results Wednesday amid opposition claims that the vote was fraudulent. Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali named Abdelhamid Salama the country's new youth minister in a partial cabinet reshuffle Wednesday following weeks of unrest after a man killed himself to protest against rampant unemployment. Gabon's late ruler Omar Bongo (right) allegedly embezzled millions of dollars and helped fund several French politicians, including former president Jacques Chirac (left) and President Nicolas Sarkozy, say WikiLeaks reports published Wednesday. A radical Islamist sect, Boko Haram, claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a series of bombings in central Nigeria as well as attacks targeting churches in the northeast of the country that left at least 86 people dead over Christmas weekend. AMERICASThe United States says it has revoked the visa of Venezuela's ambassador to Washington (pictured) in response to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's decision to reject the proposed US envoy to Caracas. Haiti's electoral authorities have granted the Organization of American States “unlimited access” to information concerning November’s disputed presidential election in the hope of validating contested results from the first round of the poll. A court in Brazil has ordered Air France to pay $727,000 (€540,000) to the family of a woman who died in the June 2009 crash of flight 447 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, which claimed the lives of all 228 people on board. Service has resumed at airports in the north-eastern US after blizzards forced the cancellation of thousands of flights, bringing misery to Christmas travellers just as conditions in Europe were beginning to thaw. A winter storm made travel torturous in the north-east on Monday, dropping a thick layer of snow that brought misery to thousands of Christmas travellers just as conditions in Europe began to thaw. ASIA-PACIFICAustralian Prime Minister Julia Gillard launched an aid appeal for those affected by floods that have devastated north-eastern regions of the country and cut off entire towns, warning that the situation would get worse in the coming days. Afghan officials say gunmen have kidnapped four Turkish engineers in the eastern province of Paktia, a hotbed of insurgent activity bordering Pakistan. An unmanned Indian space rocket had to be destructed after launch Saturday after it veered off course. This new setback is likely to hit the country's push into the global market for satellite launches, experts said Sunday. US President Barack Obama has condemned a suicide attack in Pakistan that killed at least 45 people. A burqa-clad suicide bomber hit a food aid centre Saturday, in what authorities say may be the first female suicide attack in Pakistan. An undersea earthquake on Saturday triggered a minor tsunami in the South Pacific, but there were no reports of damage or injuries.
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Wednesday, 22 December 2010
The Best of the France24 Observers by Biodun Iginla, BBC News, The Economist, France24
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THE OBSERVERS ON THE WEBAbout The Observers The Observers is a collaborative site on France 24 that covers international current affairs by using eyewitness accounts from "Observers"... Read more
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Friday, 17 December 2010
France 24 Videos of the Week by Biodun Iginla, BBC News, The Economist, France 24
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Ouattara calls for fresh protests after fatal clashes WikiLeaks founder Assange is released on bail PM Thaci 'implicated' in report on organ trafficking In direct challenge to military, Turkey tries officers for attempted coup Obama notes progress in Afghanistan, warns more time needed US government sues BP for billions over Gulf oil spill Security Council votes to end Saddam-era sanctions on Iraq Asylum seekers die in boat crash off Australian coast Ivory Coast: Our Observers live from the protests in Abidjan |
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