AMMAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Around 100 people demonstrated on Wednesday outside the French embassy in Amman, demanding the resignation of the AFP bureau chief in the Jordanian capital.
"We want AFP offices closed," chanted the protesters who gathered at the call of MP Yehia Saud, who organised Tuesday a demonstration outside AFP offices to urge the government to take legal action against bureau chief [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said in Saudi Arabia on Saturday that president Hosni Mubarak's ouster has opened "a new page" in Egypt that no pundits could have predicted.
Fillon told reporters he discussed the dramatic events in Egypt, where Saudi Arabia's ally Mubarak was toppled on Friday, with the crown prince and defence minister, Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, and with Pri [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Angry Palestinians mobbed French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie as she visited Gaza on Friday in a mix-up over a "war crimes" quote mistakenly attributed to her.
On her first visit to Gaza since taking over as foreign minister in November, Alliot-Marie was twice ambushed by demonstrators who hurled eggs and shoes, enraged over reports of a [...]
PARIS (AFP) - France's Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories as part of a tour of the Middle East next week, her office said on Friday.
"This visit will be a chance to send a number of messages to regional players and tackle regional questions and the state of our bilateral relations with each of our partners," ministry spokesman Bernard Valero to [...]
BASRA, Iraq (AFP) - French group Schneider Electric has signed a contract with the local government in Basra to build eight electricity sub-stations in power-starved southern Iraq, an Iraqi official said on Monday.
Construction of the sub-stations is set to begin on January 14 and should take eight months, Ziad Ali of Basra provincial council and head of its electricity commission, told A [...]
PARIS (AFP) - Iranian security agents struck French diplomats in scuffles at a Tehran embassy residence, prompting France to summon Iran's ambassador and complain of "unacceptable violence", officials said Tuesday.
"On November 14, particularly serious incidents took place at the entry to the ambassadorial residence in Tehran," the French foreign ministry said in a statement.
"Its entry [...]
PARIS (AFP) - France's famed luxury retailers, from Chanel to Baccarat to Cartier, are to put their best foot forward Friday in the Gulf emirate Dubai, seen as a gateway to the riches of the Middle East.
An estimated 30 groups are to present their offerings at the mammoth Dubai Mall, a 1,500-square meter temple to luxury.
The Middle East accounts for around eight percent of the 22 bill [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden warned France on Wednesday that its ban on the veil in public places justified violence against its nationals as militants kept seven hostages captive, five of them French.
In an audio recording aired by Al-Jazeera television, Bin Laden said last month's kidnapping claimed by the jihadist network's North African branch in the Sahara desert in northe [...]
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 [...]
UMM QASR, Iraq (AFP) - At Iraq's southernmost tip, windswept sands and oppressive heat greeted a once-familiar visitor -- a French naval vessel, making port in the country for the first time in 32 years.
The FS Commandant Ducuing, which typically covers the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and along the shores of the Arabian Peninsula, on Tuesday docked at the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr for a two- [...]
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