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Clinton wraps up Asia tour in key player India
09/05/2012 - World news explained

Clinton wraps up Asia tour in key player India

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ended her tour of Asia after visits to Bangadesh, India and China.

30/04/2012

French press review 30 April 2012

The fact that very few French journalists work tomorrow, International Workers' Day, means that the papers have to get in ahead of the event.

Call for frontier troop withdrawal after Himalayas avalanche
11/04/2012 - World news explained

Call for frontier troop withdrawal after Himalayas avalanche

The avalanche on the militarised Siachen Glacier in the Himalayas a few days ago buried 135 people, most of them Pakistani soldiers. There's little hope for survivors.

25/03/2012 - France - Pakistan

Toulouse gunman trained with Taliban

Mohamed Merah, the lone gunman whose killing spree in southwestern France killed seven people over the past two weeks, was reportedly trained by the Taliban in Pakistan, according to its ...

23/03/2012

French press review 23 March 2012

Toulouse shooting dominates today's French dailies.

22/03/2012 - Analysis: France

Toulouse killer Merah - the lone wolf French spies failed to stop

Toulouse killer Mohamed Merah, who died in a shootout with police on Thursday morning, was typical of a new breed of violent Islamist – the “lone wolf” - according to ...

21/03/2012 - France - Afghanistan - Pakistan

Toulouse killer fought with Taliban, broke out of Afghan jail

French intelligence had been watching the alleged Toulouse killer Mohamed Merah for years but did not suspect he was preparing violent attacks.

21/03/2012 - France

Suspected Toulouse killer expected to surrender in afternoon

The alleged author of an attack on a Jewish school and several French soldiers, is expected to surrender during Wednesday afternoon, as armed police besiege him in a flat in the southern French ...

Seeking justice in Bangladesh
05/03/2012 - International report

Seeking justice in Bangladesh

Forty years after East Pakistan separated from West Pakistan to form Bangladesh, the International Crimes Tribunal was set up in the capital, Dhaka, to punish those who collaborated with Pakistan ...

20/02/2012 - Analysis: Afghanistan - France

Most foreign troop killings by Afghan soldiers not work of Taliban, Nato admits

Taliban infiltrators have been responsible for very few of the attacks on foreign troops by Afghan soldiers, a Nato official says.

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