PARIS (AFP) - A French campaign to stop the stoning to death of an Iranian woman convicted of adultery intensified Thursday after President Nicolas Sarkozy added his support.
Two French former presidents and the current president's wife, Carla Bruni, are among signatories to a petition launched by a Parisian writer to save 43-year-old mother-of-two Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani.
Sarkozy threw his [...]
PARIS (AFP) - Air France may reopen its route from Paris to Tripoli more than two decades after suspending it due to a 1989 attack on an airliner that killed 170 people, the carrier said on Monday.
"The Paris Charles de Gaulle to Tripoli route is among the destinations of potential interest to Air France," a spokeswoman for the French airline told AFP, without indicating when a decision would be [...]
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PARIS (AFP) - France on Thursday expelled for a second time radical Islamic cleric Ali Ibrahim al-Sudani back to his native Egypt having already kicked him out in January, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said.
"This individual very recently reappeared on our territory despite an expulsion order in his name, carried out in January," Hortefeux said in a statemen [...]
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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - French aid group Help Doctors accused the Palestinian Hamas organisation on Wednesday of seizing equipment and files from one of its Gaza clinics which it closed in June.
"Four men from the (Hamas) interior ministry entered the clinic on Tuesday morning and seized computer equipment, telephones, chairs, office equipment and medical files," the or [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi King Abdullah will reschedule a visit to France for meetings with President Nicolas Sarkozy after cancelling his planned July 12 trip to Paris, Riyadh confirmed on Saturday.
The visit "has been postponed to a date to be determined, at the earliest time convenient for the two sides," the state news agency SPA reported, citing a government official.
The Saudi king had [...]
PARIS (AFP) - Saudi King Adbullah has decided to postpone a visit to France scheduled for next week and no official reason has been given for the delay, Le Monde newspaper reported on Friday.
A French official told AFP that the visit had never been formally decided.
The 86-year-old monarch left Riyadh in June for a multi-nation tour, traveling to Morocco, Canada for the Group of 20 summi [...]
PARIS (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak discussed Monday ways to relaunch the stalled peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.
"We looked at initiatives it will be possible to take," Mubarak told reporters after a 45-minute meeting with the French leader that also touched on ties between their countries.
The Israelis and Palesti [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - The Saudi cabinet agreed on Monday to sign a nuclear cooperation accord with France, which could open the way for French help in developing nuclear power in the oil-rich kingdom.
The agreement is "for the development of peaceful uses of nuclear energy," the cabinet announced after its weekly meeting in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
The pact was first propo [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - A French-Saudi group including Alstom and SNCF and a Spanish-led consortium were the only bidders Saturday for Saudi Arabia's multi-billion dollar Mecca-Medina high speed railway, Saudi officials said.
At least five groups, including German, Chinese and South Korean firms, had qualified for bidding to build the 450-kilometre (275-mile) Haramain railway linking Islam's holie [...]
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