Centrist candidate rules out alliance with socialistsFRANCE: Three days of agitation over a rapid alliance between socialist and centrist candidates against France's right-wing …Tue Apr 17 2007 - 01:00
First Irish ceremony marking Somme battle sacrificeFrance: Some 210 Irish people from North and South celebrated St Patrick's Day with an inter-denominational service on the windy…Mon Mar 19 2007 - 00:00
Social Europe died with Delors era, say French intellectualsParis Letter: Pierre Rosanvallon, professor of modern history and contemporary politics at the Collège de France, concluded …Thu Dec 07 2006 - 00:00
The road to disasterIraq War: Two complementary books explore the American invasion of Iraq and its consequences An estimated 655,000 Iraqis and…Sat Dec 02 2006 - 00:00
Lack of privilege explains appeal of 'Madonna of the opinion polls'FRANCE: At her last rally, on the night before she was elected the Socialist Party's presidential candidate, Ségolène Royal …Sat Nov 18 2006 - 00:00
All the rage in ParisA year after rioting engulfed this and similar immigrant suburbs across France, the clock and sign marking the entry to the Lycée…Fri Oct 27 2006 - 01:00
French awards for initiatives on disability call for European entriesThe French Federation of Associations for Disabled Youths and Adults (APAJH) is appealing to local governments, businesses, associations…Tue Oct 17 2006 - 01:00
A century of mistrustIran At the end of his comprehensive book Iran Today, Dilip Hiro comes to the obvious conclusion that a major crisis over Iran…Sat Jul 22 2006 - 01:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryI don't mean to brag, but I've spent a fair amount of time avoiding thieves in dangerous placesMon May 08 2006 - 01:00
French take to St Patrick with string of eventsFrance: The Irish Ambassador to France, Anne Anderson, held a glittering St Patrick's Day reception at the embassy on Thursday…Sat Mar 18 2006 - 00:00
Jeanne d'Arc finally gets her autopsyFRANCE: Five hundred and seventy five years seems a long wait to investigate a war crime, but Dr Philippe Charlier, a forensic…Tue Feb 14 2006 - 00:00
Families arrive in France to take bodies of their daughters homeThe families of Patricia McDonald and Carol Nolan, the Irish students who died in a house fire in Brittany on January 6th, have…Tue Jan 10 2006 - 00:00
Clinging tightly to the grandeurFrench History As the race riots that wracked France for two weeks began to subside, President Jacques Chirac went on television…Sat Dec 24 2005 - 00:00
Four decades on, divisions of Algerian war still evidentLetter from Paris: France has two histories: a left- wing history and a right-wing historyMon Dec 05 2005 - 00:00
McAleese honours Irish monk who shaped EuropePresident Mary McAleese chose a perfect day to visit Paris - one of those clear, cold autumn days when your breath comes out …Thu Nov 24 2005 - 00:00
France to begin deporting arrested foreignersFRANCE: France will today begin deporting foreigners apprehended in 2½ weeks of rioting, the national police chief, Michel Gaudin…Mon Nov 14 2005 - 00:00
France burying its head in the sand, says researcherFRANCE: Unrest in la banlieue has been a regular feature of French life since 1981Mon Nov 07 2005 - 00:00
Saddam torture victim to attend trialIRAQ: An honest man is arrested, tortured and imprisoned for many yearsTue Oct 18 2005 - 01:00
Poetry-loving PM a threat to Sarko's Elysee dreamsParis Letter: Nicolas Sarkozy has played Brutus to Jacques Chirac's Caesar for yearsFri Sept 23 2005 - 01:00
'Country girl' who champions the European idealFRANCE: In the days following France's rejection of the European constitutional treaty, President Jacques Chirac showed how …Mon Sept 12 2005 - 01:00
Old rift leaves French left in turmoilFRANCE: France's former socialist prime minister Michel Rocard set the tone for the Socialist Party's "summer university", which…Sat Aug 27 2005 - 01:00
Olympics would lift French depressionWhatever the merits of the case made by President Jacques Chirac and Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë before the International Olympic…Wed Jul 06 2005 - 01:00
Referendum leaves a divided FranceAnalysis: When he came to power 37 months ago, the French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin coined the expression "La France…Tue May 31 2005 - 01:00
Irish ambassador honoured by French foreign ministryPádraic MacKernan, Ireland's outgoing Ambassador to Paris, was yesterday awarded the rank of Grand Officier de l'Ordre National…Tue May 31 2005 - 01:00
Chirac accepts defeat as French vote NoThe people of France created a political earthquake for their own country and the entire European Union yesterday by becoming…Mon May 30 2005 - 01:00
No vote predicted as French decide on EU treatyThe French campaign for tomorrow's referendum on the European constitutional treaty officially ended at midnight last night, …Sat May 28 2005 - 01:00
Ambitious Fabius has become a hate figure for the Yes campaignFrance: Laurent Fabius was France's youngest prime minister and Jacques Chirac was only mayor of Paris when they clashed in …Tue May 24 2005 - 01:00
Chirac looks to the skies for some inspirationFRANCE: Jacques Chirac has been promoting an integrated defence policy, writes Lara Marlowe , in Le Luc en ProvenceWed Apr 20 2005 - 01:00
French resistanceJacques Godbout, French-Canadian writer, film-maker and quiet revolutionary, tells Lara Marlowe about the challenge of maintaining…Sat Apr 02 2005 - 01:00
Report recounts Assad threat to Hariri in SyriaSYRIA: Syria's president Bashar al-Assad threatened the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri less than six months before…Sat Mar 26 2005 - 00:00
'Living martyr' becomes living witnessMiddle East: Marwan Hamadé and Bassel Fleihan are known as Lebanon's "living martyrs"Tue Mar 08 2005 - 00:00
French hit back against the Google invasionParis Letter: I don't know if it's the legacy of Gen de Gaulle, or competition between the twin revolutions of 1776 and 1789…Wed Feb 23 2005 - 00:00
France honours law enshrining secularismParis letter: The 1905 law on the separation of church and state is considered a pillar of the French Republic, an integral …Wed Feb 16 2005 - 00:00
French daily awaits news of missing 'star'FRANCE: Readers of Libération are likely to see a sadly familiar box on the front page of their newspaper this morningWed Jan 19 2005 - 00:00
Chirac warns French journalists not to go to IraqFrance: The French President Jacques Chirac yesterday asked journalists not to go to Iraq, saying "the security of our press…Sat Jan 08 2005 - 00:00
US warns Syria to end its domination of LebanonMIDDLE EAST: US officials this week delivered their most strident ultimatum that Syria end its domination of LebanonThu Jan 06 2005 - 00:00
Hizbullah TV station ordered off air after series of shows targets JewsParis Letter: Three unrelated media stories are making headlines here: the banning of the Lebanese Hizbullah television station…Wed Dec 15 2004 - 00:00
Arafat 'in the final phase of his life', says ambassadorFRANCE: In a deep coma, having survived a brain haemorrhage on Tuesday and the failure of his liver and kidneys yesterday, Mr…Thu Nov 11 2004 - 00:00
French thinker Derrida diesFRANCE: The French intellectual Jacques Derrida, sometimes called the world's greatest living philosopher, has died in Paris…Mon Oct 11 2004 - 01:00
France dips its toes in Turkey's so-called 'river of Islam'Paris Letter: If a long, collective sigh rises over the Élysée Palace, National Assembly and Quai d'Orsay this morning, it will…Wed Oct 06 2004 - 01:00
Some Texans lose faith in Bush justiceAcross America: Freddie Brookins will not be allowed to vote against George W. Bush on November 2ndWed Sept 15 2004 - 01:00
Trying to restore hope to a defeated peopleAcross America: Wounded Knee was where the Indian wars endedMon Sept 13 2004 - 01:00
Clinton loyalists are now Don't KnowsAcross America: The art deco Cadillac building in downtown Detroit, once the highest in the US, has been gutted pending reconstruction…Thu Sept 09 2004 - 01:00
Town tainted by shame of Abu GhraibAcross America: When the 372nd Military Police Company left for Iraq in the spring of 2003, the residents of Cresaptown, a small…Wed Sept 08 2004 - 01:00
Thorn in the side of Bush and AshcroftAcross America: Michael Ratner is the anti-Ashcroft, the scourge of the US Attorney GeneralTue Sept 07 2004 - 01:00
Maimed soldier prepared to go back and lose other legAcrossAmerica: Sgt Luke Wilson of the First Cavalry Division has not received his purple heart yetMon Sept 06 2004 - 01:00
Pope's visit fulfils a 'personal wish'FRANCE: The Pontiff is visiting the shrine at Lourdes as 'a sick man among sick people', writes Lara Marlowe in ParisSat Aug 14 2004 - 01:00
Chequered career catches up with Chirac's Mr Fix-ItParis Letter: Four times between 2001 and 2003, Judge Philippe Courroye asked the European Parliament to lift Jean-Charles Marchiani…Wed Aug 04 2004 - 01:00
For the Anglo-Saxons, adultery is as French as red wine and baguetteParis Letter : Like so much of French cultural life these days, the manner of Isabelle Adjani's break-up with the musician Jean…Wed Jul 21 2004 - 01:00
Report that Chirac backed Ahern for EU job deniedPresident Jacques Chirac did not ask the Taoiseach to be a candidate for the presidency of the European Commission, a source …Mon Jun 21 2004 - 01:00
