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24/03/2011 - France

French press review 24 March 2011

Jerusalem, Japan, Libya and Elizabeth Taylor are the focus of this morning’s French papers.

Dangerous times for journalists in Libya
19/03/2011 - African Media

Dangerous times for journalists in Libya

Over the past few weeks, journalists in Libya have have been arrested, tortured and disappeared, even killed.

France under fire for colonialism past - and present
27/02/2011 - Focus on France

France under fire for colonialism past - and present

Libyans, Tamils, Palestinians, Tunisians, undocumented workers and communists: a smorgasboard of causes has united for the sixth annual

20/01/2011 - Hidden Paris

Edith Wharton - the American novelist who joined France's WWI effort

The streets just east of the historic Les Invalides military hospital in Paris’s seventh arrondissement have an air of distinguished calm.

05/01/2011 - Sudan - RFI interviews

China to send observers to Sudan as Beshir softens stance

The Sudan People's Liberation Movement has dismissed Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir's diplomatic overtures towards south Sudan.

07/12/2010 - France

French press review 7 December 2010

Family reconciliation steals the limelight in most of the papers on Tuesday morning, but tortured diplomats, a former Afghan insurgent, trying to form a government while you're grounded and ...

25/11/2010 - Hidden Paris

A stopwatch, a piece of string and Parisians display their true colours

If you tell Bob Levine the average time it takes a person to walk 60 feet in a given city, he can tell you how many people live there, how likely they are to help each other and the average ...

18/11/2010 - Hidden Paris

1832 - The deadly epidemic that helped shape today's Paris

At the end of March 1832 Paris’s Hôtel Dieu hospital began to receive a steady stream of patients.

11/11/2010 - Hidden Paris

A cell in the WWII resistance network

In May 1944, three German officers knocked on the door of 11 Avenue Foch. Phillip Jackson, then aged 16, opened the door and the officers told the family that they were under arrest.

11/11/2010 - France

French press review 11 November 2010

Academic squabbles, a ticking off for interior ministry and diplomatic face-offs as Sarkozy heads to Seoul in his brand new plane are dominating the headlines this week, as the poppy, once again, ...

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