Former gendarmes were allegedly paid to get secret information from police and justice department files. Why?
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Only a few weeks after the execution style killings of top Kurdish activists the jailed leader of the Kurdish PKK agreed to a cease fire with arch nemesis Turkey after a decades long civil war.
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From a stroke at age 54. Considered a terrorist group by the European Union and the United States, it announced in October 2011 that it was giving up its armed struggle but it has yet to formally disarm.
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A Paris court has sentenced two French aid workers to two years in jail for attempting to illegally bring 103 children from Chad to France for adoption, falsely claiming they were orphans from Darfur.
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More naked tits from FEMEN. They chose the only place in France were this could possibly shock anyone. But what exactly are they protesting?
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This article comes from AFP which is funded by the French government. So take it with a grain of salt.
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A 200-year-old law forbidding women to wear trousers in Paris has finally been
revoked.
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The 214-year-old Napoleon law, which formally prohibited women from wearing trousers in the French capital, has been revoked. The archaic ban, though not executed, has been a pain for French women’s activists.
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This played out between 1996 and 2003 and was blown sky high by a UN report co-authored by a young woman from the Rockefeller dynasty (The family was not pleased and she has all but vanished from the radar). Desperate attempts to cover this up followed.
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The Bundesbank is expected to announce on Wednesday that it will repatriate its gold reserves held in Paris and move back some which is currently in the New York Federal Reserve vaults, the Handelsblatt newspaper reported on Tuesday
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