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15/03/2013 - Report: France

Activists fear U-turn on French fracking ban

Environmentalists around the world welcomed France's 2001 ban on hydraulic fracturing, the process of extracting gas and oil from shale rock underground more commonly known as fracking.

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Resource-rich Greenlands goes to the polls
13/03/2013 - World news explained

Resource-rich Greenlands goes to the polls

Greenland's has only 57,000 inhabitants but its election attracted attention from the west and the east.

Why Pakistan needs Iran pipeline
12/03/2013 - World news explained

Why Pakistan needs Iran pipeline

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched a major gas pipeline project with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari.

20/02/2013 - France - Cameroon - Nigeria

France tells citizens to leave north Cameroon, blames Boko Haram for kidnapping

France has urged its citizens to leave northern Cameroon after Tuesday’s kidnapping of a family of seven.

23/01/2013 - Algeria - France - Mali

Japan wants answers on Algeria gas plant siege

One of the hostage-takers killed at Algeria’s In Amenas gas complex had worked at the site, security sources say, possibly answering questions as to how the Islamists were able to plan their attack. A Japanese junior minister has arrived in Algiers

23/01/2013

African press review 23 January 2013

Kano clamps down on achaba.

22/01/2013 - France - Mali - Algeria

Five foreigners still missing, as Algeria hostage-takers threaten to attack France

Five foreigners were still missing on Tuesday in the aftermath of the hostage crisis at Algeria’s remote In Amenas gas plant.

22/01/2013 - France - United Kingdom

French stink invades southern England ... but it's not toxic

Police in the English county of East Sussex were fielding calls from worried residents on Tuesday morning over a mysterious stench of sweat, garlic and rotten eggs.

18/01/2013

French press review 18 January 2013

The hostage taking at the gas site in In Amenas Algeria is on the front page of every major French newspaper.

Three attackers (rear R) stand guard in front of foreigners that were taken hostage, while Algerians (L) are left alone at an accommodation unit of the plant at a gas plant in In Amenas, in this photo secretly taken by one of the Algerians held hostage
18/01/2013 - France - Algeria - Ireland

Frenchman “hid under bed for 40 hours” during Algeria hostage crisis

A French hostage said he hid under his bed for 40 hours before he was rescued by soldiers from the hostage crisis at an Algerian gas field.

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