PARIS (AFP) - France on Wednesday advised the partners and children of its nationals in Yemen to leave the country because of the deteriorating security there.
"This is a temporary precautionary measure taken in coordination with the main French companies present," foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said.
The warning came a day after Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh met French Presid [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - The option of the UN Security Council creating a Palestinian state cannot be ruled out, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has said in a recently published interview.
But he got short shrift from Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman during a meeting Sunday.
Kouchner told the Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayyam that France preferred a two-state solution to be ne [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the option of the UN Security Council creating a Palestinian state cannot be ruled out, in an interview published Sunday.
Kouchner told the Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayyam that France preferred a two-state solution to be negotiated with Israel, but said appealing to the Security Council to resolve the conflict remained a possibility [...]
SANAA (AFP) - A young security guard who shot dead a Frenchman in Yemen this week appears to have acted for personal and criminal reasons, the Yemeni defence ministry said on Friday.
Jacques Spagnolo, a contractor working for Austrian energy group OMV, was shot at the company's compound in the Yemeni capital on Wednesday, the same day a British embassy car was targeted by a rocket attack that w [...]
SANAA (AFP) - A British embassy car came under rocket attack in Yemen on Wednesday and a Frenchman working for an Austrian oil firm was shot dead, highlighting the growing dangers in the Arabian peninsula's poorest nation.
The Yemeni government pointed the figure at Al-Qaeda.
Police in Sanaa said a rocket-propelled grenade targeted the car about three kilometres (two miles) from the British em [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said Thursday that energy giants Total of France, Anglo-Dutch Shell, Norway's Statoil and Italy's Eni have pledged to end their investments in Iran.
The pledges fall in line with tough new energy and financial measures the US Congress imposed on Iran in June, which came atop UN Security Council sanctions imposed earlier the same month to curb Iran's nuclear [...]
DOHA (AFP) - A movie that sparked controversy when it opened on general release in France this week will headline the Doha Tribeca Film Festival next month, the organisers said on Sunday.
French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb’s action-thriller "Outside the Law," about a 1945 massacre of mostly unarmed Algerian civilians by French soldiers, will open the festival which starts on Octob [...]
PARIS (AFP) - Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas held talks Sunday with influential members of the French-Jewish community in Paris about the Israeli-Palestine peace negotiations, during his visit to France.
At Meurice hotel, Abbas met with 20 well-known figures including philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, journalists Jean-Pierre Elkabbach and Ruth Elkrief, Jewish student union leader Arielle [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - A court sentenced two Iraqis to life in jail on Wednesday for taking part in the 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad and the kidnap of two French journalists a year later.
The two men, who were identified only by the initials R. A. A. and M. A. A., confessed to being members of the Islamic Army, a Sunni militant group, and taking part in the bombing of the Uni [...]
PARIS (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is to visit Paris from Sunday for talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy, as Israel is due to decide whether or not to extend a settlement freeze.
The two-day visit, announced by a French diplomatic source, comes as Middle East peace talks are threatened with collapse if the two sides fail to resolve a dispute over the expiry of the moratorium on b [...]
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