Assassination of Islamist leader deals blow to hopes of negotiated settlement in AlgeriaThe assassination of the moderate Islamist leader, Mr Abdelka der Hachani, in Algiers yesterday represents a serious blow to …Tue Nov 23 1999 - 00:00
French upbeat on beef despite EU legal moveFrench officials last night said they were confident that the six-week-old "mad cow war" between France and Britain could be …Wed Nov 17 1999 - 00:00
La belle Colette: she still inspires fascination, admiration and revulsionForty-five years after her death, Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette, known simply as Colette, still inspires fascination, admiration …Sat Nov 13 1999 - 00:00
France honours `peace militant'While the French Minister spoke, it nestled on a gold-edged velvet pillow, waiting for the magical incantation: "John Hume, in…Thu Nov 11 1999 - 00:00
Palestinians `still knocking at door'Mr Yasser Arafat looked vulnerable on the stage of the Socialist International CongressWed Nov 10 1999 - 00:00
Crossing language's invisible frontierThe inside of John Lalor and Janet Ryan's apartment in Montmartre feels like an Irish cottage, with its painted board floor, …Wed Nov 10 1999 - 00:00
Desperately Seeking JoanThree grimy Englishmen with cockney accents and rotten teeth burst into a medieval French cottageSat Nov 06 1999 - 00:00
Chirac, Jospin square up for battleTwin financial scandals involving France's two leading political parties have claimed their second casualty this week - peaceful…Fri Nov 05 1999 - 00:00
Strauss-Kahn cites sense of responsibility for resignationFor once, the French left and right used almost the same wordsWed Nov 03 1999 - 00:00
Iranian leader calls for a `radical and profound change' in political moralityPresident Mohammad Khatami likes the United NationsSat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Khatami reflects on the role played by man in building human civilisationIt was a deeply symbolic gesture, whose significance was perhaps lost on President Mohammad Khatami's French hosts, and on his…Fri Oct 29 1999 - 01:00
France bars Iranian exiles as Khatami arrives in ParisFor the first time since the Shah was overthrown in 1979, an Iranian head of state has come to ParisThu Oct 28 1999 - 01:00
EU ruling may enable `mad cow war' truceTomorrow's decision by the EU's Scientific Steering Committee could mean a ceasefire in the "mad cow war" between France and …Thu Oct 28 1999 - 01:00
Ben Barka's son to renew quest to find father's bodyDID Mehdi Ben Barka's killers put his body on a cargo aircraft at Rouen and dump him into the sea? Or was the Moroccan opposition…Wed Oct 27 1999 - 01:00
Jiang insulated from French dissentPresident Jacques Chirac couldn't have shown his Chinese counterpart a better timeTue Oct 26 1999 - 01:00
Supreme Court rejects appeal by Papon, now France's most wanted manAs the French lawyer Mr Arno Klarsfeld said: "The government and the justice system are responsible for Papon's escapingFri Oct 22 1999 - 01:00
Dumbfounded first lady of Paris defends her recordIn her pinstriped black suit and white beads, Mrs Xaviere Tiberi, wife of the Mayor of Paris, looked small and helpless as she…Thu Oct 21 1999 - 01:00
Papon still missing on eve of appealThe 89-year-old former French cabinet minister Maurice Papon, who was last year sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role …Thu Oct 21 1999 - 01:00
Liaisons dangereusesThe wife of the mayor of Paris goes to Mass every day and takes her rosary beads when she is questioned by magistratesSat Oct 16 1999 - 01:00
Touche Trichet as Banque prepares for bicentennialWith a carefully calculated balance of pride and power projection, sobriety and restraint, Mr Jean-Claude Trichet, the governor…Thu Oct 14 1999 - 01:00
Sad case of `Sir Alfred' who has tied himself to an airport's apron stringsMehran Karimi Nasseri takes the 610Wed Oct 13 1999 - 01:00
Shirts store buttons up for Irish inquiriesCharlie Haughey must have loved shopping at CharvetThu Oct 07 1999 - 01:00
France takes to streets in autumn ritualWhen Mr Lionel Jospin attended the UN General Assembly two weeks ago, American journalists asked him why French people were always…Wed Oct 06 1999 - 01:00
Employers in France march streets in protestHas the conservative French employers' association begun imitating the leftist trade unions it detests? You could be forgiven…Mon Oct 04 1999 - 01:00
French firm designed plantThe Tokaimura nuclear plant was designed by the French company SGN (Societe Generale des Techniques Nouvelles) and has been operating…Fri Oct 01 1999 - 01:00
Socialist Jospin's European vision faces new challengesWho will go down in history as the leader of the European left? With socialists in government in 11 of 15 EU countries and the…Wed Sept 29 1999 - 01:00
Mitchell in France for UNESCO peace awardIt must have been like waiting for Sinn Fein and the Ulster Unionists to agreeSat Sept 25 1999 - 01:00
Israel rebukes France over SyriaThe first official visit to Paris by the Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Ehud Barak, was marred by a diplomatic contretemps when Israel…Fri Sept 24 1999 - 01:00
A great silenceJean-Simeon Chardin was perhaps the greatest painter of the 18th centurySat Sept 18 1999 - 01:00
Algerian president tests his policies with a pollAlgeria's 17.5 million voters were called to the polls yesterday for the sixth time in four years.Fri Sept 17 1999 - 01:00
French hail end of budgetary `spiral of debt'The French Minister of the Economy and Finance, Mr Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has promised lower taxes, higher growth and more jobs…Thu Sept 16 1999 - 01:00
Journalist who carries a camera as if it were a penIn the small, highly competitive world of photo-journalism, 72 year-old Goksin Sipahioglu, founder of one of the world's largest…Wed Sept 15 1999 - 01:00
TotalFina, Elf Aquitaine agree terms for mergerFrance's two largest oil companies, TotalFina and Elf Aquitaine, have announced they will merge, creating the world's fourth-…Tue Sept 14 1999 - 01:00
French economy leaps from economic horror to euphoriaLike President Clinton the French Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, came to office at the tail-end of a particularly bad stretch…Fri Sept 10 1999 - 01:00
Cresson may now face criminal investigationAs the European Parliament began screening 19 new EU commissioners for ethical probity yesterday, Mrs Edith Cresson, the woman…Tue Aug 31 1999 - 01:00
French retail groups agree to friendly mergerFrance's two largest retail groups, Carrefour and Promodes, are expected to announce a friendly merger based on an exchange of…Mon Aug 30 1999 - 01:00
Mitterrand accused of anti-Semitic remarkWas President Francois Mitt errand an anti-Semite? France's Socialist Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, and Mitterrand's illegitimate…Sat Aug 28 1999 - 01:00
Regulator struggles to end bank rowThe fate of two of France's biggest banks, Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and the Societe Generale (SocGen) was to be decided…Sat Aug 28 1999 - 01:00
Aircraft carrier a floating French jokeWhat takes 12 years to build, is 15 per cent over budget at a cost of Ffr 20 billion (£2Fri Aug 27 1999 - 01:00
Lead pipes create poisoning risk in French tap waterHundreds of years from now, scientists analysing the bones of 20th century Parisians may discover that they - like the ancient…Thu Aug 26 1999 - 01:00
Diana crash report holds Dodi Fayed partly to blame for accidentIn a further blow to Mr Mohamed al-Fayed, the Egyptian millionaire whose son was killed in a car accident with Princess Diana…Wed Aug 25 1999 - 01:00
French farmers stampede against McDonald's beefPerhaps Ronald McDonald guessed he was symbolising the world's biggest restaurant chain when the first golden arches rose in …Tue Aug 24 1999 - 01:00
French deny risk to health from contaminated feedThe French government has made no attempt whatsoever to trace meat and bonemeal contaminated by sewage in six French plants as…Thu Aug 19 1999 - 01:00
Latest killings wake Algeria to grim statistics of president's ruleThe gunmen set up their faux barrage (fake checkpoint) at Beni Ounif, on the desert highway parallel to the Moroccan border on…Wed Aug 18 1999 - 01:00
Inquiry into mixing of sewage with animal food demandedA French opposition parliamentarian, Mr Jean-Jacques Guillet, has called for a commission of inquiry into the animal feed scandal…Tue Aug 17 1999 - 01:00
Defiant SocGen chief rules out sale of bankAs French banking authorities begin to consider the fate of the bank he chairs, Mr Daniel Bouton has warned that "the Societe…Tue Aug 17 1999 - 01:00
BNP secures effective control of Paribas after bitter fightingBanque Nationale de Paris (BNP) has obtained control of the French investment bank Paribas, the French Council for Financial …Mon Aug 16 1999 - 01:00
Minorities protest at failure to get their voices heardAs Several thousand musicians and dancers from Brittany, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Asturia and Galicia paraded through…Thu Aug 12 1999 - 01:00
Banks saga draws to uncertain closeThe biggest take-over battle in French banking history was scheduled to end at midnight last night, the deadline for swapping…Sat Aug 07 1999 - 01:00
An underworld empire that invites tourists to see how death could have undone so manyEver since the Paris catacombs were opened at the beginning of the last century, tourists have flocked to the doorway marked "…Wed Aug 04 1999 - 01:00
