(OtherWords) – The French government recently announced a plan to ban sales of new gas-powered cars by 2040. Not to be outdone, the UK government is now rolling out a similar plan of its own. These plans sound shockingly radical, but in fact many analysts…
(Tasnim) – Bastille Day protests threatened to boil over into violence at the end of Donald Trump’s visit to Paris, as his opponents took to the streets for the second consecutive day. Mask-wearing demonstrators threw glass bottles and missiles at…
(GVO) – On December 1, 1944, an unspeakable tragedy took place at the military camp of Thiaroye, a small village in the suburbs of Dakar. Thirty-five Senegalese Tirailleurs (a type of rifleman or sharpshooter) were killed, according to official records, but other…
Africa (Conversation) – Almost none of the Western world’s leaders have paid much attention to Africa in recent months. One exception was France’s newly-elected president, Emmanuel Macron, who visited Mali shortly after his inauguration. His trip was partly a show…
Europe (NM) – Sunday night’s French presidential results saw a huge win for liberal centrist Emmanuel Macron, beating Marine Le Pen by 66.1% to 33.9% of valid votes. This was quite a slap in the face for the Front National, who despite…
France (Tasnim) – A hundred and forty-one people were arrested in Paris after trouble flared overnight following Emmanuel Macron’s victory in France’s presidential election, police said on Monday. Those detained in Menilmontant, a north-eastern district of Paris, were accused of offences…
France (Sputnik) – A significant leak containing tens of thousands of emails, pictures and file attachments from French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has been publicized for the world to see, roughly 36 hours before the people of France select their next…
France (Tasnim) – A key adviser to France’s ultra-right presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of inciting hatred against Muslims. Robert Menard, mayor of Beziers, was fined 2,000 euros for saying there were too many Muslim children in…
France (Sputnik) – French police used smoke pellets and is moving toward protesters who started to break the fences at the Place de la Bastille in the center of Paris, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the site. After that, police started…
Europe (NM) – With warnings that as many as one million migrants are already on the way to to Libya and Europe from countries across Africa, Europe’s refugee crisis seems set to get even worse. From police brutality at borders to squalid conditions…
France (NM) – The ‘rise’ of the far right. It’s been presented in the media as a sudden shift of epic proportions, a phenomenon affecting every country in the Western world. Only look at Trump, Brexit, UKIP, Wilders, Marine Le Pen,…
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