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The government of Mali will give French president Francois Hollande a “bigger and better-looking” camel as a gift for France’s help in defeating Muslim rebels after the original camel, which Hollande left with a family in Timbuktu, was p… The Onion Tweet This Post
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American Voices: French President Receives New Camel After First Eaten
Posted by admin on April 11th, 2013
French finance minister calls off meeting with U.S. treasury secretary
Posted by admin on April 8th, 2013
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici has canceled a meeting in Paris with U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew that had been scheduled for Tuesday, a Treasury official said. No reason was given for calling off the meeting, the official said on Monday. (Reporting by Anna Yukhananov; Writing by Jason Lange in Washington; Editing [...]
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No Comments »French Budget Chief Admits He Lied
Posted by admin on April 5th, 2013
Just as French President François Hollande is trying to impose budgetary discipline on his countrymen, his chief tax enforcer has admitted to hiding $ 770,000 in an offshore bank account, Businessweek reports. Tweet This Post
French soldier killed in Mali, Belmokhtar fate unsure
Posted by admin on March 3rd, 2013
PARIS/GAO, Mali (Reuters) – France said on Sunday a third French soldier had been killed in fierce fighting with Islamist rebels in northern Mali but could not confirm Chad's report that its troops had killed the al Qaeda commander behind January's mass hostage-taking in Algeria. A whirlwind seven-week campaign has driven al Qaeda-linked fighters who [...]
Horsemeat with banned drug entered French food chain
Posted by admin on February 23rd, 2013
PARIS (Reuters) – Meat from three horse carcasses contaminated with a banned drug has entered the human food chain in France but there is no danger to the public, the French farm minister said on Saturday. The meat, which came from a lot of six British carcasses exported to France, contained traces of phenylbutazone – [...]
Malian, French troops kill 15 Islamists in Gao – France
Posted by admin on February 22nd, 2013
PARIS (Reuters) – Malian troops backed by French soldiers and attack helicopters killed 15 Islamists in Gao on Thursday in fighting to retake a mayor's office occupied by the militants, France's Defense Ministry said on Friday. Four Malian and two French soldiers were wounded in the fighting that erupted after Islamists were reported to have [...]
French minister says cannot confirm Cameroon hostages freed
Posted by admin on February 21st, 2013
PARIS (Reuters) – France's minister for veterans' affairs, who told parliament on Thursday that seven hostages abducted from Cameroon had been released, said minutes later there was no official confirmation that they had been freed. "There is not … official confirmation at this stage," Kader Arif told a session of parliament. Minutes earlier, he had [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Cameroon, Cannot, confirm, freed, French, hostages, Minister, says No Comments »French general urges EU to equip “impoverished” Mali army
Posted by admin on February 20th, 2013
BAMAKO, Mali (Reuters) – The European Union should complement a mission to train Mali's army, routed by rebels last year, by providing equipment from uniforms to vehicles and communications technology, a French general said on Wednesday. General Francois Lecointre, appointed to head the EU training mission to Mali (EUTM) that was formally launched this week, [...]
French soldier killed in Mali, 20 rebels dead
Posted by admin on February 19th, 2013
PARIS/DAKAR (Reuters) – A French soldier and more than 20 Islamist rebels were killed during what appeared to be the first clashes in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountain range where militants have taken refuge in northern Mali, French officials said on Tuesday. Speaking on a visit to Athens, French President Francois Hollande said serious fighting [...]
French battle Mali Islamists as Tuareg problem looms
Posted by admin on February 6th, 2013
KIDAL, Mali (Reuters) – French and Malian troops are fighting Islamist rebels in the Sahara outside northern Mali's biggest town, France's defense minister said on Wednesday, describing the desert campaign against al Qaeda as a "real war" that was far from won. After driving the Islamists from northern Mali's main towns with three weeks of [...]
