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France to begin deporting arrested foreigners

FRANCE: France will today begin deporting foreigners apprehended in 2½ weeks of rioting, the national police chief, Michel Gaudin…

Mon Nov 14 2005 - 00:00

France burying its head in the sand, says researcher

FRANCE: Unrest in la banlieue has been a regular feature of French life since 1981

Mon Nov 07 2005 - 00:00

Saddam torture victim to attend trial

IRAQ: An honest man is arrested, tortured and imprisoned for many years

Tue Oct 18 2005 - 01:00

Poetry-loving PM a threat to Sarko's Elysee dreams

Paris Letter: Nicolas Sarkozy has played Brutus to Jacques Chirac's Caesar for years

Fri Sept 23 2005 - 01:00

'Country girl' who champions the European ideal

FRANCE: In the days following France's rejection of the European constitutional treaty, President Jacques Chirac showed how …

Mon Sept 12 2005 - 01:00

Old rift leaves French left in turmoil

FRANCE: France's former socialist prime minister Michel Rocard set the tone for the Socialist Party's "summer university", which…

Sat Aug 27 2005 - 01:00

Olympics would lift French depression

Whatever the merits of the case made by President Jacques Chirac and Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë before the International Olympic…

Wed Jul 06 2005 - 01:00

Referendum leaves a divided France

Analysis: When he came to power 37 months ago, the French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin coined the expression "La France…

Tue May 31 2005 - 01:00

Irish ambassador honoured by French foreign ministry

Pádraic MacKernan, Ireland's outgoing Ambassador to Paris, was yesterday awarded the rank of Grand Officier de l'Ordre National…

Tue May 31 2005 - 01:00

Chirac accepts defeat as French vote No

The people of France created a political earthquake for their own country and the entire European Union yesterday by becoming…

Mon May 30 2005 - 01:00

No vote predicted as French decide on EU treaty

The French campaign for tomorrow's referendum on the European constitutional treaty officially ended at midnight last night, …

Sat May 28 2005 - 01:00

Ambitious Fabius has become a hate figure for the Yes campaign

France: Laurent Fabius was France's youngest prime minister and Jacques Chirac was only mayor of Paris when they clashed in …

Tue May 24 2005 - 01:00

Chirac looks to the skies for some inspiration

FRANCE: Jacques Chirac has been promoting an integrated defence policy, writes Lara Marlowe , in Le Luc en Provence

Wed Apr 20 2005 - 01:00

French resistance

Jacques Godbout, French-Canadian writer, film-maker and quiet revolutionary, tells Lara Marlowe about the challenge of maintaining…

Sat Apr 02 2005 - 01:00

Report recounts Assad threat to Hariri in Syria

SYRIA: Syria's president Bashar al-Assad threatened the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri less than six months before…

Sat Mar 26 2005 - 00:00

'Living martyr' becomes living witness

Middle East: Marwan Hamadé and Bassel Fleihan are known as Lebanon's "living martyrs"

Tue Mar 08 2005 - 00:00

French hit back against the Google invasion

Paris Letter: I don't know if it's the legacy of Gen de Gaulle, or competition between the twin revolutions of 1776 and 1789…

Wed Feb 23 2005 - 00:00

France honours law enshrining secularism

Paris letter: The 1905 law on the separation of church and state is considered a pillar of the French Republic, an integral …

Wed Feb 16 2005 - 00:00

French daily awaits news of missing 'star'

FRANCE: Readers of Libération are likely to see a sadly familiar box on the front page of their newspaper this morning

Wed Jan 19 2005 - 00:00

Chirac warns French journalists not to go to Iraq

France: The French President Jacques Chirac yesterday asked journalists not to go to Iraq, saying "the security of our press…

Sat Jan 08 2005 - 00:00

US warns Syria to end its domination of Lebanon

MIDDLE EAST: US officials this week delivered their most strident ultimatum that Syria end its domination of Lebanon

Thu Jan 06 2005 - 00:00

Hizbullah TV station ordered off air after series of shows targets Jews

Paris Letter: Three unrelated media stories are making headlines here: the banning of the Lebanese Hizbullah television station…

Wed Dec 15 2004 - 00:00

Arafat 'in the final phase of his life', says ambassador

FRANCE: In a deep coma, having survived a brain haemorrhage on Tuesday and the failure of his liver and kidneys yesterday, Mr…

Thu Nov 11 2004 - 00:00

French thinker Derrida dies

FRANCE: The French intellectual Jacques Derrida, sometimes called the world's greatest living philosopher, has died in Paris…

Mon Oct 11 2004 - 01:00

France dips its toes in Turkey's so-called 'river of Islam'

Paris Letter: If a long, collective sigh rises over the Élysée Palace, National Assembly and Quai d'Orsay this morning, it will…

Wed Oct 06 2004 - 01:00

Some Texans lose faith in Bush justice

Across America: Freddie Brookins will not be allowed to vote against George W. Bush on November 2nd

Wed Sept 15 2004 - 01:00

Trying to restore hope to a defeated people

Across America: Wounded Knee was where the Indian wars ended

Mon Sept 13 2004 - 01:00

Clinton loyalists are now Don't Knows

Across America: The art deco Cadillac building in downtown Detroit, once the highest in the US, has been gutted pending reconstruction…

Thu Sept 09 2004 - 01:00

Town tainted by shame of Abu Ghraib

Across America: When the 372nd Military Police Company left for Iraq in the spring of 2003, the residents of Cresaptown, a small…

Wed Sept 08 2004 - 01:00

Thorn in the side of Bush and Ashcroft

Across America: Michael Ratner is the anti-Ashcroft, the scourge of the US Attorney General

Tue Sept 07 2004 - 01:00

Maimed soldier prepared to go back and lose other leg

AcrossAmerica: Sgt Luke Wilson of the First Cavalry Division has not received his purple heart yet

Mon Sept 06 2004 - 01:00

Pope's visit fulfils a 'personal wish'

FRANCE: The Pontiff is visiting the shrine at Lourdes as 'a sick man among sick people', writes Lara Marlowe in Paris

Sat Aug 14 2004 - 01:00

Chequered career catches up with Chirac's Mr Fix-It

Paris Letter: Four times between 2001 and 2003, Judge Philippe Courroye asked the European Parliament to lift Jean-Charles Marchiani…

Wed Aug 04 2004 - 01:00

For the Anglo-Saxons, adultery is as French as red wine and baguette

Paris Letter : Like so much of French cultural life these days, the manner of Isabelle Adjani's break-up with the musician Jean…

Wed Jul 21 2004 - 01:00

Report that Chirac backed Ahern for EU job denied

President Jacques Chirac did not ask the Taoiseach to be a candidate for the presidency of the European Commission, a source …

Mon Jun 21 2004 - 01:00

Chirac resists call for PM to resign as socialists triumph

France: President Jacques Chirac yesterday rejected demands for the resignation of his prime minister following the ruling UMP…

Tue Jun 15 2004 - 01:00

Socialists consolidate pole position

France: The European elections have dramatically altered the political landscape of France, confirming the socialists as the…

Mon Jun 14 2004 - 01:00

French call for euro presidency to promote 'growth'

FRANCE: The French minister for the economy and finance, Mr Nicolas Sarkozy, has made sweeping proposals for an "economic government…

Thu Jun 03 2004 - 01:00

Constitutional treaty needs 'political will'

EU: At the Paris stop on his marathon tour of European capitals prior to the June 17th-18th European Council, the Taoiseach …

Thu Jun 03 2004 - 01:00

Jewish groups lose defamation case against French intellectuals

FRANCE: Three prominent French intellectuals, one of them an MEP, were cleared yesterday of "defamation on racial grounds" and…

Thu May 13 2004 - 01:00

French PM and envoys visit home of Monnet, the 'Father of Europe'

FRANCE: The French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin went to the house where Europe's grand project was born, to celebrate…

Tue May 04 2004 - 01:00

Chirac stalls on EU vote and Turkish entry

FRANCE: Two days before the enlargement of the European Union, President Jacques Chirac yesterday attempted to reassure the …

Fri Apr 30 2004 - 01:00

Mission impossible

Profile Paul Bremer: For an experienced diplomat, Paul Bremer is surprisingly prone to confrontation and while his word is law…

Sat Apr 17 2004 - 01:00
Iraq descends into state of near anarchy

Iraq descends into state of near anarchy

A year to the day after US forces overthrew Saddam Hussein, Iraq has descended into a state of near anarchy, with fighting between…

Fri Apr 09 2004 - 01:00

Sisyphean task of clearing Iraq's unexploded cluster bombs

Attempts to clean up after last year's invasion are still continuing, writes Lara Marlowe in Baghdad

Thu Apr 08 2004 - 01:00

Death stalks Shia Muslims the Americans came to save from Saddam

So it has come to this

Wed Apr 07 2004 - 01:00

Revisiting the dogs of war

Memoir: Lt Col Bozidar Popovic was proud of his prison camp

Sat Feb 28 2004 - 00:00

Amnesty asks Irish company to explain its policy on wall

ISRAEL : The human rights group, Amnesty International, has called on the Irish company, Cement Roadstone Holdings (CRH), to…

Thu Feb 19 2004 - 00:00

Breton town proud of Kerry's French connection

PARIS LETTER/LARA MARLOWE : Brice Lalonde is so proud of his American cousin, the US presidential candidate John Kerry, that…

Wed Feb 18 2004 - 00:00

Lansdowne was 'the right decision'

The Tánaiste, Ms Harney, said yesterday she was pleased that the Cabinet had chosen Lansdowne Road over Abbotstown as the site…

Sat Jan 31 2004 - 00:00
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