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Bernard Tapie: "I've only got €100 million left!"

IN THE FRENCH PAPERS, Friday 24 May; 'Libération' questions how security forces can guard against 'lone-wolf' terrorists; 'Le Figaro' criticises the French President for 'w...

Apple's first ever computer goes on sale and how has Germany reduced its unemployment

05/24/2013 BUSINESS BULLETIN

The Unedic body in France, which sets unemployment benefits, predicts the jobless total will continue to r...

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Markets tumble on Chinese data and Venezuelans hope for an end to the toilet roll crisis

05/23/2013 BUSINESS BULLETIN - Disappointing data on manufacturing in China has sent markets down. The Nikkei fell more than 7% by th...

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This week, we are Down to Earth in the Moroccan desert. With 3000 hours of sunlight per year, Morocco is perfectly placed to tap into the enormous potential that solar power represents. Join the team this Thursday at 5.40 ...

Democratic Republic of the Congo : violence flares ahead of UN visit

05/22/2013 - Army, rebels clash in Goma as Ban Ki-Moon travels to country. Government says 19 dead in battles between rival forces on Monday.

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Syria Peace talks in Amman: what's on the agenda at Friends of Syria Meeting

05/22/2013

The United States and Russia are looking to broker an international peace conference bringing together representatives of President B...

Calling from the top of the world

International papers (05/22/2013) are speculating on the upcoming elections in Iran, after former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is excluded from the vote. Columnists in the US are sti...

A Suicide in the Cathedral

French dailies are dominated by the European summit in Brussels, where leaders are pushing to clamp down on tax havens. The suicide of a man in Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral sparks the admiration ...

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Blood on the Church floor 05/21/2013 MEDIA WATCH

A dramatic suicide in Notre Dame Cathedral put the spotlight back on gay marriage in France. Dominique Venn...

Bad weather: bad for morale, bad for the economy

FRENCH PAPERS, Tues. 21/05/13: Bad weather dominates the French papers today. Aujourd'hui en France looks at the negative impact it's having on France's economy. Also, Libér...

'Words vs. pictures'

INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, Tues. 21/05/13: Papers react to the deadly tornado that ripped through a suburb of Oklahoma City. Also, an Israeli committee says there is no evidence Israel was responsible for t...

Microsoft launches the new Xbox while European leaders hope to cut tax dodging

05/22/2013 BUSINESS BULLETIN - Microsoft has unveiled its latest version of the Xbox, saying it's more an all-in-one entertainment centre than ...

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Seven days in Tibet - Exclusive report - 05/20/2013

Tibet has been off limits to journalists since the Chinese government brutally suppressed riots in the region five years ago. France 24 correspondent Cyril Payen managed ...

Apple gets a bruising from the US Senate and bad weather in France hurts fruit sales

05/21/2013 BUSINESS BULLETIN

A Senate report says Apple has been avoiding billions of dollars of taxes. The report comes ahead of an appe...

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The new technologies and their impact on our society. Every Wednesday at 16h15 (Paris Time) - Presented by Rebecca BOWRING and Eric OLANDER, Internet specialist.

Digital technology is now at the centre of many important wo...

Bouteflika's bill of health: two papers censured

INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, Mon. 20/05/13: Tunisian papers are optimistic democracy will prevail given the recent Salafist violence. Algerian meanwhile say the conditions are simi...

FRENCH PAPERS, Mon. 20/05/13: France wants to buy two US drones. Libération investigates the ethical and legal questions this new kind of warfare raises. Also, Le Figaro takes a look at how Pope Francis is shaking up the C...

Business: How much are 108 million blogs worth? Yahoo!'s big bid for Tumblr

There are 50 billion blog posts on Tumblr, and Yahoo! seems prepared to pay around 2 cents for each of them. The internet giant is buying the blog...

The new technologies and their impact on our society. Every Wednesday at 16h15 (Paris Time) - Presented by Rebecca BOWRING and Eric OLANDER, Internet specialist.

Digital technology is now at the centre of many important wo...

The alleged US spy caught in Moscow with a blond wig bleeds into fashion statements from Paul Taylor of the Reuters news agency and Craig Copetas of Quartz.

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'Where's Wally...we mean François?'

FRENCH PAPERS, Friday 17 May: It's all about one man in Friday's French press review: François Hollande! Libération praises the French president's press conference on Thursday, calling h...

'End it like Beckham'

INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, Friday 17 May: We examine reaction in German newspapers to François Hollande's press conference; the International Herald Tribune looks at the impact of cross-border violence in ...

Hollande outlines his economic plans and what's the value of Brand Beckham ?

05/17/2013 - At a press conference on Thursday French President François Hollande outlined some of the ways he hopes to get the French economy gr...

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Thomas KLAU, Paris Bureau Chief, European Council on Foreign Relations, on François Hollande questions François Hollande's decision to stage his big bi-annual press conference the day after sitting down with the European C...

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Correspondance by Ismail Wolff

Two dead as cyclone hits Bangladesh. About 800,000 people spent the night in more than 2,000 cyclone shelters and schools and colleges in Bangladesh's long coastline after the weather office ...

France breast implant trial : defence to deliver closing arguments

Clovis CASALI in Marseille - 05/16/2013

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War in Syria: PM Erdogan will push for stronger US role in Syria

05/16/2013 JASPER MORTIMER, Ankara, Turkey

President Barack Obama met Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday as world leaders scramble to f...

art - Barack Obama - food and beverage industry - Gaza Strip - Republicans (USA) - US politics

Barack Obama is facing a series of controversies - Smuggling KFC into Gaza

IN THE WORLD PAPERS - Thurs. 16/05/13: Internation...

Hollande has his back against the wall

IN THE FRENCH PAPERS - Thurs. 16/05/13: All eyes are on François Hollande as he prepares to give his second formal press conference since being elected president a little over a year ...

Latest update: 15/05/2013

- Cannes Film Festival 2013 - crime - French politics - Manuel Valls - PSG - security

FRENCH PAPERS, Weds. 15/05/13: The Cannes film festival kicks off for its 66th edition. Also, papers are sti...

'Savage online videos fuel Syria's descent into madness'

INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, Weds. 15/05/13: International papers react to reports of atrocities from both sides of the Syrian civil war. One particularly gruesome video of...

French businesses struggle and the world's most expensive diamond

05/16/2013 - After France slipped back into recession, how are companies coping on the ground? We have a report. Better news from Japan where the economy gr...

Cannes film Festival : The Great Gatsby takes center stage for the opening night.

05/15/2013

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Syria civil war : arming the rebels... but which faction ? The debate in Washington.

05/15/2013 NATHAN KING

The resolution welcomed the opposition Syrian National Coalition "as effective representative interlocutors need...

Syria civil war : UN resolution received 107 votes in favour. Why is that UN resolution important? Nathan King answers.

05/15/2013 NATHAN KING in New York

The assembly "strongly condemns the continued escalation in the use...

Donors' conference pledges €3.25 billion for Mali

05/15/2013

International donors pledged €3.25 billion to help rebuild conflict-hit Mali at an international conference in Brussels on Wednesday. The pledges vastly exceeded...