Tag: Paris
France Offers to Help Tunisia With Neoliberal Reforms as Tunis Weighs Fourth IMF Loan in 10 Years
Africa01:06 GMT 05.06.2021Despite the formal end of colonial rule decades ago, Paris retains close economic and military ties with many of its former...
France Opposes Idea of More Joint Funding for NATO, Report Says
Europe14:17 GMT 28.05.2021(updated 14:21 GMT 28.05.2021) In 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed doubt about the effectiveness of Article 5 of the...
After Morocco Floods Ceuta With Migrants, Spain Serves Western Sahara Leader With War Crimes Summons
Europe14:33 GMT 19.05.2021The Western Sahara is a huge area of desert bordering the Atlantic Ocean, sandwiched between Morocco and Mauritania. In 1975 the...
Retired French Police Officers Join Troops Calling for Action to Prevent ‘Civil War’
Europe13:59 GMT 15.05.2021(updated 14:23 GMT 15.05.2021) In April, a French news magazine published a letter signed by over 1,200 military personnel, among...
French Military Chief of Staff Hints Soldiers Who Signed ‘Civil War’ Letter Should Resign
Europe05:42 GMT 12.05.2021On Sunday, the news magazine Valeurs Actuelles published a letter from French servicemen on active duty in support of their retired...
Russian Ambassador to France Summoned by Foreign Ministry Over Sanctions Against European Officials
Europe15:46 GMT 04.05.2021(updated 17:29 GMT 04.05.2021) The punitive measures imposed by Moscow came in response to the expulsion of Russian diplomats by...
Mayor of Paris District Agrees With Generals Threatening to Seize Control Amid ‘Civil War’ Danger
Europe12:24 GMT 30.04.2021(updated 12:43 GMT 30.04.2021) A group of over 1,200 French generals, officers, service members and police personnel signed an open...
UN Probe Finds French Airstrike in Mali Killed 19 Civilians in January, Contradicting Paris’ Claims
Africa00:59 GMT 31.03.2021France’s seven-year-long counter-terrorism mission in several of its former African colonies has been denounced as the country’s “forever war” and “neo-colonialism,”...
Biden Reportedly Wants to Use Nuclear Deal to Pressure Iran on Missiles, ‘Support for Proxies’
World14:57 GMT 07.02.2021(updated 14:59 GMT 07.02.2021) On Sunday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei reiterated that Washington must lift its sanctions against Iran...
France’s Macron Refuses ‘Repentance or Apologies’ to Algeria for Colonization, War Brutalities
On Algerian Independence Day in July 2020, Paris returned to Algeria the skulls of 24 resistance fighters decapitated by French soldiers after their revolt...
Same Country, Different Hair: Britain Courting New ‘Special Relationship’ Partner in White House
World15:48 GMT 21.01.2021(updated 16:08 GMT 21.01.2021) The upkeep of close ties between the United States and Britain has been a tough gig,...
Super Soldiers Without Fear and Beyond Reproach: France Opens Way for Augmenting Its Military
Bionic soldiers on the battlefield may no longer be relegated to the confines of sci-fi flicks, as one NATO member has openly declared its...
Turkey’s President Erdogan Hopes France Will Get Rid of ‘Burden’ of President Macron Soon
World12:26 GMT 04.12.2020(updated 16:10 GMT 04.12.2020) Relations between the two countries have drastically deteriorated in recent months over Macron’s comments on Islam...
French Police Raid Mosques as Part of Gov’t Strategy to Combat Islamist Separatism and Extremism
Europe18:52 GMT 03.12.2020(updated 18:54 GMT 03.12.2020) The country, which has the largest Muslim minority population in Europe, has suffered from gruesome terrorist...
‘Historic Allies, Not Vassals’: Debate Continues on Contentious Issue of European Army, US Reliance
European politicians have long been debating the contentious issue of creating their own army, independent of the United States and NATO, with Paris particularly...
US State Secretary’s Istanbul Visit Was Provocative, Showed Lack of Respect for Turkey, General Says
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's apparent unwillingness to meet with Turkish officials during his visit to Istanbul is nothing short of a diplomatic...
