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US jets bomb their Afghan allies' position

US F-16 aircraft yesterday mistakenly bombed two positions of the opposition United Front in the first incidents of "friendly…

Tue Oct 23 2001 - 01:00

US military sends advisers to help anti-Taliban forces

The US military has dispatched teams of advisers to help the opposition Northern Alliance in its war on the Taliban, and US forces…

Mon Oct 22 2001 - 01:00

Rebels smoke hash while the US bombs fall

After more than a week of US and British bombardments, the evening ritual is well-established

Wed Oct 17 2001 - 01:00

Fear grows in Tajikistan as Taliban comes under US attack

Just a few hours before the strikes, a Western intelligence officer told me, "the Taliban are dead. They're finished

Mon Oct 08 2001 - 01:00

US dollar smooths rugged way over the old silk road

The border guard in the emerald green uniform shook his head.

Wed Oct 03 2001 - 01:00

West ignored accounts of Taliban abuse, scholar says

Four days before the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, Dr Nilab Mobarez attended lunch at the French ambassador…

Tue Oct 02 2001 - 01:00

Giscard considers standing again for president after 20 years

Twenty years after his humiliating defeat by Franτois Mitterrand, the former centre right president, ValΘry Giscard d'Estaing…

Tue Sept 25 2001 - 01:00

Toulouse factory blast cuts city off from rest of France as death toll rises

The south-western French city of Toulouse was cut off from the rest of the country yesterday after an explosion with the force…

Sat Sept 22 2001 - 01:00

French arrest seven bomb suspects

French police yesterday arrested seven men and women suspected of plotting to blow up the US embassy in Paris.

Sat Sept 22 2001 - 01:00

French intelligence agencies attempt to flush out groups linked to bin Laden

The French intelligence agency DST and the Paris crime brigade are investigating possible links between radical Islamists in …

Wed Sept 19 2001 - 01:00

Wounded memory buys wounded son's cigarettes

Jean-Christophe Mitterrand is a wounded man

Wed Sept 19 2001 - 01:00

Your carriage awaits

Few things please a Frenchman more than starting a trend that catches on

Tue Sept 18 2001 - 01:00

French back US action but politicians steer clear of a military crusade

"We are all Americans," French newspapers and politicians proclaimed in the aftermath of the attacks on New York and Washington…

Tue Sept 18 2001 - 01:00

Chirac, Schr÷der express solidarity

President Jacques Chirac said France "learned with immense emotion of the monstrous attacks - there is no other word - that have…

Wed Sept 12 2001 - 01:00

Pinault wins Gucci 'handbag war'

The clash of egos and pocketbooks between France's two richest men subsided momentarily yesterday, when Mr Francois Pinault triumphed…

Tue Sept 11 2001 - 01:00

Flexible regulation the key on exchange rate policy

Economists have argued since the 1930s about whether exchange rates should be fixed or allowed to float, says Jorge Braga de …

Fri Sept 07 2001 - 01:00

Bishop convicted of covering up for paedophile priest

Catholic Bishop Monsignor Pierre Pican, Bishop of Bayeux and Lisieux, was yesterday convicted of covering up for a paedophile…

Wed Sept 05 2001 - 01:00

Debate on Middle East lights passions in France

By publishing his "Letter to an Israeli Friend" in Le Monde, Prof Pascal Boniface, a political science professor and director…

Wed Sept 05 2001 - 01:00

French racism law needs changing, says group

Ms Sophie Malmquist, the head of catalogue distribution in France for the Swedish furniture chain IKEA, thought she was doing…

Wed Sept 05 2001 - 01:00

President caught with his saggy pants down

Photographers waiting on the beach outside the French presidential holiday chΓteau at BrΘganτon couldn't believe it when President…

Sat Sept 01 2001 - 01:00

French army tackles euro coin mission

Distributing between seven and 10 billion euro coins poses a far greater logistical challenge than putting 1

Fri Aug 31 2001 - 01:00

French public lose patience with government handling of Corsica

No wonder the French Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, has so little success in bringing peace to the Mediterranean island of…

Thu Aug 30 2001 - 01:00

Jospin promises tax cuts in strategy to restore higher growth rates

The French Prime Minister Mr Lionel Jospin went on national television last night to reassure the public that his government …

Wed Aug 29 2001 - 01:00

EU constitution in 2004 - Chirac

President Jacques Chirac has set the ambitious target date of 2004 for a European constitution to come into force.

Tue Aug 28 2001 - 01:00

Government offers no solution for a growing surge of insecurity

It was a Saturday afternoon when I heard the thud on the balcony and stuck my head around the doorway to find myself face to …

Wed Aug 22 2001 - 01:00

Cold-blooded Iguana will not be missed

Not many will weep for Mr Francois "the Iguana" Santoni, the Corsican nationalist who was gunned down in front of his mistress…

Sat Aug 18 2001 - 01:00

Officer reveals grim details of Ben Barka's murder

Ahmed Boukhari remembers every detail of the acid tank they used to dissolve Ben Barka's body

Wed Aug 08 2001 - 01:00

Carving a place in art history

A sprightly old woman wearing a loud print dress and bedroom slippers sat on an armchair in the main room, watching the art critics…

Fri Jul 27 2001 - 01:00

British minister tells French he finds EU debate at home juvenile

The British Minister for European Affairs, Mr Peter Hain, made a surprising admission yesterday during his first visit to Paris…

Thu Jul 26 2001 - 01:00

Concorde victims remembered 1 year on

France marked the first anniversary of the Concorde crash which killed 113 people with a minute's silence at Air France headquarters…

Thu Jul 26 2001 - 01:00

When dream apartments become a nightmare to purchase

I hope I'm not tempting fate by writing about this a few days before I actually move

Wed Jul 25 2001 - 01:00

Chirac dodges the key questions

It was perhaps the best television performance of President Jacques Chirac's career

Mon Jul 16 2001 - 01:00

French need to see euro to really believe in it

French businessmen never stop complaining of government intervention in the economy

Fri Jul 13 2001 - 01:00

Magistrates question Chirac's daughter

Investigating magistrates closed in on French President Jacques Chirac yesterday when they questioned his 38-year-old daughter…

Thu Jul 12 2001 - 01:00

Permanent exile dreaming of field mice in Wicklow

When I wrote about the death of my cat, Walter, last year, several readers sent condolences, so I thought they should have an…

Wed Jul 11 2001 - 01:00

French fields and pastures new

When Tom and Margaret Cannon and their four children arrived at GardΦche farm in September 1999 from Co Tipperary, the farmhouse…

Tue Jul 10 2001 - 01:00

Chirac wins brief respite in the latest financial scandal

President Jacques Chirac enjoyed a brief respite in his troubles with French justice yesterday when a senior prosecutor said …

Tue Jul 10 2001 - 01:00

Assad confirms freeing human rights journalist

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria ended his three-day state visit to Paris yesterday with a symbolic gesture of openness at …

Thu Jun 28 2001 - 01:00

Syria's president blamed for crimes of the past

Faced with the uproar over the state visit to Paris by President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, the mayor of the capital, Mr Bertrand…

Wed Jun 27 2001 - 01:00

French mother (62) says brother was father of her test-tube baby

In a case that raises unprecedented ethical, medical and legal questions, a 62-year-old retired French school teacher and her…

Thu Jun 21 2001 - 01:00

Practices in France's animal waste plants denounced as `monstrous'

Piles of carcasses amid a sludge of rotting meat, blood and fluids from dead animals; the video shown in an annex of the National…

Wed Jun 20 2001 - 01:00

Inspiring film that injects cheerfulness into French lives

A lonely little girl grows up in a Paris suburb, playing childhood games and practical jokes that make up the opening scenes …

Wed Jun 13 2001 - 01:00

Treaty has to be ratified by each member state before enlargement

The Nice Treaty must be ratified by all member states before enlargement of the European Union can happen, the French President…

Tue Jun 12 2001 - 01:00

Ireland's No spurs French opponents of treaty

Ireland's vote against the Treaty of Nice has turned into a nightmare for the French government

Mon Jun 11 2001 - 01:00

Empty seats tell of French apathy about Nice

The empty seats in the French National Assembly on Tuesday night told the story of France's indifference to the Nice Treaty.

Thu Jun 07 2001 - 01:00

Jospin lays the ghost of long past Trotskyism

The French Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, admitted yesterday that he began his political career as a Trotskyist

Wed Jun 06 2001 - 01:00

Man with a mission rekindles memories of 1789 Revolution

Arnaud Montebourg is a man with a mission

Wed May 30 2001 - 01:00

Irish will find Jospin's grand vision too taxing

Dublin is one of several European capitals likely to find fault with the French Prime Minister Mr Lionel Jospin's long-awaited…

Tue May 29 2001 - 01:00

TGV sets new speed record on run from Calais to Marseilles

TGV (Tres Grande Vitesse) number 531 travelled from the Channel to the Mediterranean in 3 hours 29 minutes in a trial run on …

Mon May 28 2001 - 01:00

Report accuses France over BSE

French authorities usually blame Britain and the European Commission for the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) …

Fri May 18 2001 - 01:00
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