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20/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

From Cannes, with Love

Amour, or love in French, is the title of a film in the running for the Golden Palm at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. RFI’s Rosslyn Hyams is in Cannes where she reviewed the film.

18/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

Sex tourism and feminism in Ulrich Seidl's Cannes contender Paradise: Love

In competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Austrian director and screenwriter Ulrich Siedl, visits a side of human nature from a rarely-revealed female perspective in Paradise: Love ...

Gallipoli - the débacle whose echoes still sound
27/04/2012 - International report

Gallipoli - the débacle whose echoes still sound

This week marks the 97th anniversary of World War I's Gallipoli Campaign in which British and French forces invaded Turkey in a disastrously unsuccessful attempt to open a second front against ...

14/02/2012 - France

Moody's moves towards downgrading French AAA rating

Exactly one month after France was downgraded from a coveted triple A by rating agency S&P, Moody’s has put the country on ‘negative outlook’ alongside Great Britain and ...

29/01/2012 - France

National Front leader Le Pen slammed for attending far-right ball in Austria

Two French organisations have condemned the leader of the far-right Front National party, Marine Le Pen, for attending a ball in Austria on Friday organised by an Austrian student ...

19/11/2011 - Iran - UN

Iran accuses IAEA of endangering nuclear scientists' lives

Iran has accused the United Nations of endangering its nuclear scientists’ lives and threatened legal action after Friday’s vote by the UN’s nuclear watchdog against its nuclear programme.

13/03/2011 - Japan

Fears of leak at second Japanese nuclear plant

A state of emergency has been reported at a second Japanese nuclear plant, according to the UN nuclear agency.

17/02/2011 - France

Carlos the Jackal to face trial over 1980s bombings

One of the world’s most famous criminals is to go on trial for bomb attacks that killed 11 people in France in 1982 and 1983.

Threatened with death - the Muslim who's converted to Christianity
27/10/2010 - Voices

Threatened with death - the Muslim who's converted to Christianity

We talk to Sabatina James, a former Muslim from Pakistan who's been threatened with death for converting to Christianity.

15/10/2010 - Switzerland - Italy - Europe

Drill breaks through to open world's longest tunnel

A giant rock drill has broken through a last section of Alpine rock to open the world’s longest tunnel after 15 years of digging through 13 million cubic metres of rock.

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