Paris: France's new socialist government sat down with trade unions and employers for the first time on Tuesday, facing the daunting task of reconciling campaign promises on jobs, wages and pensions with a grim outlook on growth, unemployment and the public finances. The dark backdrop was underlined when the communist-led CGT, the biggest union, sent Jean-Marc Ayrault, the prime minister, a list of what it said were 45,000 redundancies planned...
12:42 AM, May 30, 2012
Concentrated efforts are being made to ensure that India's presence at Cannes film festival is only strengthened in coming years. ...
11:57 PM, May 28, 2012
Valenciennes, France: Franck Ribery scored his first international goal for more than three years and Adil Rami grabbed a late winner as France rallied to beat Iceland 3-2 at home on Sunday in a European Championship warm-up match. Coach Laurent Blanc picked an experimental and attacking line-up, featuring several fringe players. The move soon backfired as Iceland went 2-0 up at half-time thanks to goals from Birkir Bjarnason and Ajax...
09:28 AM, May 28, 2012
CNN-IBN caught the actress talking about her life and dismissing many critics on her post pregnancy weight issues. ...
11:42 AM, May 27, 2012
Monaco: France's sole Formula One champion Alain Prost fears the chances of the country hosting a grand prix again in the near future have receded. "I am not optimistic," he told reporters at the Monaco Grand Prix, where Lotus driver Romain Grosjean has a real shot at becoming the first French winner since Olivier Panis in 1996. "I think it's going to be difficult," he said. "It's not only a...
05:24 PM, May 26, 2012
Paris: A third consecutive early exit at a major tournament would be a "complete disaster" for France, midfielder Yann Mvila said on Friday. Two years after losing the 2006 World Cup final to Italy on penalties, France failed to reach the knock-out stages at the 2008 European Championship. They suffered the same blow at the 2010 World Cup, where the players shocked the world by boycotting training to support Nicolas...
09:27 AM, May 26, 2012
Lille: French prosecutors said on Monday they had opened an inquiry into allegations of gangrape by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and three friends, as part of an investigation into his ties to a suspected prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille. The former IMF chief is under formal investigation over whether he was aware he was dealing with prostitutes and pimps when attending sex parties in Lille, Paris and Washington in...
07:38 AM, May 22, 2012
Kabul: The Taliban is urging all NATO nations in Afghanistan to follow France's lead and pull their international forces from the war this year. The call came in a three-page statement released on Sunday as heads of state met at the NATO summit in Chicago to talk about the future of Afghanistan. Newly elected French President Francois Hollande has said he will withdraw all French combat troops from Afghanistan by...
08:09 PM, May 20, 2012
Paris: Two months after he was shot dead by French special forces, a 23-year-old Algerian origin terrorist was found to have been plotting to attack the Indian embassy in Paris on the direction of his Taliban handlers in Pakistan. Quoting sources from the French Internal Intelligence and the Special Forces, Le Monde reported that Mohamed Merah's Taliban handlers in Pakistan had tasked him to attack the Indian mission in Paris....
12:11 PM, May 18, 2012
Paris: France coach Laurent Blanc included uncapped defender Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa and out-of-form midfielders Yoann Gourcuff and Alou Diarra in a 26-man provisional squad for the European Championship on Tuesday. Yanga-Mbiwa contributed to Montpellier's strong title run in the French league this season and benefited from Mamadou Sakho's lacklustre season. Sakho lost his starting spot at Paris Saint-Germain under coach Carlo Ancelotti. "He's a very good defender, very tough in his...
05:01 AM, May 17, 2012
Paris: Socialist Francois Hollande took over as France's President on Tuesday and jetted off to Berlin hours later for talks on Europe's debt crisis - only to have his plane struck by lightning. No one was hurt. It was a startling beginning for a man who promised to be a more "normal" President, and less flashy than his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy, who was ousted by voters after a single term...
01:02 AM, May 16, 2012
Paris: Francois Hollande became the President of France after a ceremony on Tuesday at the Elysee Palace in central Paris - the country's first Socialist leader since Francois Mitterrand left office in 1995. Hollande, 57, was elected to a five-year term earlier this month after voters ousted incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy after only one term. Voters were disappointed over Sarkozy's handling of France's economy - which has high unemployment and low...
03:25 PM, May 15, 2012
Francois Hollande swept to victory in France's presidential election on Sunday in a swing to the left at the heart of Europe and promised to start a pushback against German-led austerity policies. ...
09:21 PM, May 07, 2012
Paris: Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande who defeated incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday's decisive presidential runoff in France, has never held a government post at the national level. The bespectacled Hollande will be the second left-wing president, after Francois Mitterrand, founder of the French Socialist Party, served two seven-year terms as president from 1981. He is regarded by many as an affable moderate whose quiet -- some even say...
11:47 AM, May 07, 2012
US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have congratulated Francois Hollande on his win. ...
08:39 AM, May 07, 2012
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