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Shoah : la SNCF ouvre ses archives de 1939-1945

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:35:36 +0000

Une copie de la “totalité” des archives numérisées de la SNCF pour la période 1939-1945 a été déposée au Mémorial de la Shoah à Paris, au centre Yad Vashem à Jérusalem et à l’Holocaust Museum de Washington.

Susan G. Komen reverses course, will keep funding Planned Parenthood – CBS News

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:13:22 +0000

ABC News

Susan G. Komen reverses course, will keep funding Planned Parenthood
CBS News
Three days after pulling its funding for cancer screenings from Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation on Friday apologized for the decision and reversed course. "Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and …
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FRANCE: ‘Extras’ bussed in for Sarkozy publicity stunt

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:43:35 +0000

French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a visit to a social housing building site Thursday to highlight his work on this key election issue – but according to builders at the site, many of the ‘workers’ Sarkozy met on the tour had been bussed in.
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Philippe Val dément s’être excusé auprès de Nadine Morano pour une chronique de Sophia Aram

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:02:06 +0000

Après une passe d’armes entre la secrétaire d’Etat et l’humoriste, le patron de France Inter a affirmé qu’il n’avait pas téléphoné à Mme Morano pour s’excuser.

FRANCE: Sarkozy ‘playing politics’ with more jury trials, magistrates claim

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:30:48 +0000

The use of juries in French criminal courts is to be extended from the beginning of January. Magistrates say that they support the greater use of juries, but claim that there is a strong political motivation behind the decision.
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Blog – La dramatisation, dernière cartouche du président

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:08:27 +0000

Françoise Fressoz, éditorialiste au “Monde”, décrypte les vux de Nicolas Sarkozy et sa nouvelle stratégie pour creuser la différence avec ses adversaires.

FRANCE: France makes it harder to become French

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:26:39 +0000

France will be making it harder for foreigners to seek French citizenship as of January. Critics say the new requirements, which include tough language tests and allegiance to “French values”, are an electoral ploy that panders to the far right.
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Deux employés expatriés de MSF tués en Somalie

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:06:17 +0000

Les deux employés de Médecins sans frontières ont été victimes d’une fusillade dans la zone sécurisée de l’organisation à Mogadiscio. Leur nationalité n’a pas été établie.

Le Brésil devient la 6e puissance économique mondiale

admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:58:35 +0000

D’après le dernier bilan du Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), le géant sud-américain a dépassé le Royaume-Uni, qui se classe désormais en 7e position.

FRANCE: France won’t arrest former war crimes court official

admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:20:50 +0000

France has said on Monday it would not arrest Florence Hartmann, the ex-spokeswoman to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia who has been convicted for disclosing confidential decisions during the trial of Slobodan Milosevic.
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