Chirac takes roller-coaster ride to tryst with EuropeTHERE must be moments when French President Jacques Chirac wishes he could turn the clock back to April 21st and just let the…Wed May 14 1997 - 01:00
Moves made to strengthen WEUMR Herve de Charette and Mr Charles Millon, France's foreign and defence ministers, yesterday announced new measures to strengthen…Wed May 14 1997 - 01:00
Message of reconciliation falls on stony groundSIXTEEN year old Samia Khoury, a Maronite Catholic secondary school student, was among 20,000 who went to see the Pope at the…Mon May 12 1997 - 01:00
Beirut to bombard Pope with paperUP UNTIL the last minute, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese were afraid that Pope John Paul II might cancel his 32 hour visit…Sat May 10 1997 - 01:00
Politicians in France welcome Blair with unanimityIT'S been ages since French politicians reacted to an event with unanimity, but Tony Blair's election victory had something good…Sat May 03 1997 - 01:00
Joan of Arc hijacked as Le Pen backs in adulation of thousandsPOOR Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orleans must turn in her grave every May 1st, for since 1988 the extreme right-wing National Front…Fri May 02 1997 - 01:00
Waning of French influence underscored by the recent death of `Monsieur Afrique'THE failure of France's Africa policy was writ large between the lines of the Foreign Minister's carefully worded statementFri May 02 1997 - 01:00
Where the women still wait for the chance to go homeBRACKISH water from under ground aquifers gives them diarrhoea, trachoma and scabies, mottles their teeth and makes their bones…Thu May 01 1997 - 01:00
Socialists and Greens agree to put up joint candidates, Communists join jobs manifestoFRANCE's left wing Socialists, Communists and ecologists have concluded alliances for the parliamentary elections on May 25th…Thu May 01 1997 - 01:00
Our team can't smell sand yet to get homeTHERE's a story they tell around here, of an old Sahrawi who smells the sand to find his way in the desertWed Apr 30 1997 - 01:00
UN envoy meets Polisario for talks on autonomy for Sahrawi peopleHE WAS greeted like the Great White HopeTue Apr 29 1997 - 01:00
Deserted villagesFULGENCE Bienvenue's little white house stands on a windswept crossroads, opposite the statue of a first World War poiluSat Apr 26 1997 - 01:00
Juppe cast as punchbag in bruising contestFRANCE is in for a brutal one month election campaign, the Prime Minister, Mr Alain Juppe, has warned, and much of the brutality…Sat Apr 26 1997 - 01:00
Coalition presented as force of modernityTHE front lines in Frances one month parliamentary election campaign were drawn yesterday.Wed Apr 23 1997 - 01:00
Chirac calls early election to seek support for reformTHE FRENCH President, Mr Jacques Chirac, last night dissolved parliament and called early elections to take place on May 25th…Tue Apr 22 1997 - 01:00
Chirac ponders election optionsPRESIDENT Jacques Chirac will be pacing the halls of the Elysee Palace this weekend as he mulls over one of the most crucial …Sat Apr 19 1997 - 01:00
Pound's value may drop on euro eveTHE Irish pound may decrease in value when convergence criteria for the euro are finally decided in December 1998Fri Apr 18 1997 - 01:00
Early poll holds strong temptations for ChiracFRENCH journalists wished they had tarot cards or tea leaves to read yesterday, as speculation about President Jacques Chirac…Thu Apr 17 1997 - 01:00
French salute Collins film"LE grand type", "le grand mec", "le grand bonhomme" and "grand gars" - who would have thought there were so many ways to translate…Thu Apr 17 1997 - 01:00
Workers use slogans of protest from an economic horror storyTHE French medical students who have protested for the past five weeks against social security reforms said they were rebelling…Wed Apr 16 1997 - 01:00
Slaughter goes on as 173 die in 10 daysONLY the numbers and names of the villages change in the past 10 days, 173 people have been shot or hacked to death, burned or…Tue Apr 15 1997 - 01:00
Mitterand phone tap accusations multiplyALL week, French politicians have exchanged threats, denials and accusations in the scandal caused by the late President Francois…Sat Apr 12 1997 - 01:00
Anti terrorist cell used by Mitterand to spy on enemiesLATE French President Francois Mitterrand, used an "anti terrorist cell" at the Elysee Palace as a personal secret police force…Tue Apr 08 1997 - 01:00
Villagers decapitated and set alight in massacre by Algerian IslamistsALGERIAN newspapers have reported one of the most gruesome massacres in the country's five year civil war with some of the victims…Mon Apr 07 1997 - 01:00
Motor scootering president can risk leaving toothbrush at homeWHEN he was elected president of the former Czechoslovak Federation in 1989, Vaclav Havel wore blue jeans to work and rode a …Sat Apr 05 1997 - 01:00
Chirac aims for new European defence identityWHENEVER he is asked about problems, President Chirac begins by saying he is optimisticFri Apr 04 1997 - 01:00
Chirac tackles "noble" subject of business with reluctant EuropeansPRESIDENT Jacques Chirac began his first state visit to the Czech Republic yesterday, completing a tour of central European capitals…Thu Apr 03 1997 - 01:00
A house that is divided unto itselfSCHIZOPHRENIC is the best word to describe it, historian Leon Strauss told me in his book-lined study in Strasbourg's German …Wed Apr 02 1997 - 01:00
Bulldog spirit seizes on power of a siege mentalityIT WAS here, in the City of Europe, that the French National Front (FN) leader, Mr Jean Marie Le Pen, unleashed his fiercest …Tue Apr 01 1997 - 01:00
Triumphal Le Pen proposes European alliance of right"FRANCE'S extreme right wing National Front (FN) celebrated the re election of its president and founder, Mr Jean Marie Le Pen…Mon Mar 31 1997 - 01:00
Fromage and French fries lose appeal as Paris prefers restaurant romanceWHEN the American fast food giant McDonald's studied French national taste buds, they didn't find tiny papillae wearing berets…Sat Mar 29 1997 - 00:00
Left demonstrates that Le Pen's show is not only one in townWHEN the people of Strasbourg woke up yesterday morning, a huge black flag was waving from the steeple of their cathedralSat Mar 29 1997 - 00:00
In the blink of an eye...JEAN-Dominique Bauby had everything a man could want, and he was only 43Sat Mar 29 1997 - 00:00
Irishman condemns "lucky dip" French justice systemWHEN French police arrested Stephen King at his Brittany home in October 1992, they told the Irishman from Tyrone that they did…Sat Mar 29 1997 - 00:00
Megret presents National Front as principled DavidIF THERE is violence at Strasbourg this Easter weekend, it won't be the fault of Mr Bruno MegretWed Mar 26 1997 - 00:00
Hideous desecration of Jewish corpse linked to racist views of National FrontFELIX GERMON had been three weeks in the grave when neo Nazi skinheads broke into the Jewish cemetery in the southern French …Fri Mar 21 1997 - 00:00
"Monsieur Afrique", France's neo colonial architect, diesJACQUES FOCCART, the architect of France's African policy for nearly four decades, died in Paris yesterday morning at the age…Thu Mar 20 1997 - 00:00
Government may have ordered journalists' murders, says reportTHE Algerian government has persistently harassed and muzzled the media and is even suspected of ordering the murder of some …Wed Mar 19 1997 - 00:00
5m infected by hepatitis C - studyAS MANY as five million Europeans have been infected by the hepatitis C virus in a massive epidemic, a study just completed by…Wed Mar 19 1997 - 00:00
Bishop's invisible diocese of the poor, the persecuted and the downtroddenIN other times, Monsignor Jacques Gaillot might have been burned as a hereticWed Mar 19 1997 - 00:00
French celebrate jour de feteST PATRICK, the Disney Village Celtic Festival press handout informed us, "was filled with human goodwill and mischievous humour…Tue Mar 18 1997 - 00:00
"Islamicisation" of Egypt continues unabated as injustices still flourishVIOLENCE by Muslim extremists might have diminished in Egypt, but the "Islamicisation" of Egyptian society continues unabated…Tue Mar 18 1997 - 00:00
Why once similar conflicts in Egypt and Algeria now differFOR half a century Egypt and Algeria, the two giants of North Africa, have shared similar fatesMon Mar 17 1997 - 00:00
The world distrusts France on AfricaFRANCE'S tattered African policy suffered another defeat this week when President Jacques Chirac's proposal for a military/humanitarian…Fri Mar 14 1997 - 00:00
The woman who brought the sun outWHEN the President, Mrs Robinson, visited France in May 1996 for Imaginaire Irlandais, the six month festival of contemporary…Thu Mar 13 1997 - 00:00
Bereaved fight for French justiceTHERE is no grief so terrible as the loss of a childTue Mar 04 1997 - 00:00
Deported immigrants injure 22 gendarmes in riotDEPORTING illegal immigrants is turning out to be an expensive and violent business for the French governmentMon Mar 03 1997 - 00:00
Paris revives old NATO tensions with USPRESIDENT Charles de Gaulle shocked the world when he announced 31 years ago that France was withdrawing from NATO's integrated…Fri Feb 28 1997 - 00:00
