SEOUL — On a rainy Tuesday afternoon, Yejin is cooking lunch for her friends at her apartment, where she lives alone on the outskirts of Seoul, happily single.
While they eat, one of them pulls up a well-worn meme of a cartoon dinosaur on her phone. (...)
ISTANBUL — Security operations in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast have put up to 200,000 people at risk, placing them in the crossfire or cutting them off from emergency and basic services such as water, rights group Amnesty International said on (...)
Yves Le Drian said Sunday that a chemical or biological attack "was among the risks" but that all possible precautions to avoid one had been taken, Agence France-Presse reported.
He said French authorities were not ruling anything out in the wake of (...)
Yves Odrian.
On 16 Rajab 1436 AH corresponding to May 5, 2015 AD, Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz met in Dir'iyyah Palace for Conferences in Riyadh President Francois Hollande of the French Republic.
During the meeting, they reviewed (...)
Yves Odrian thanked Prince Miteb bin Abdullah for accepting the invitation and meeting with French officials, stressing that the meeting was positive and discussed many topics on which views between the two sides were identical. He added that this (...)
Yves Le Drian and a number of French officials.
Then, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and French President Francois Hollande held a bilateral meeting in presence of Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, (...)
Marc Ayrault, a moderate Socialist with an affinity for Germany, took office as France's prime minister Wednesday and got to work by naming his Cabinet — a lineup that includes allies and veterans of previous governments.
Socialist President (...)
Bertrand Aristide once preached and military thugs tried to assassinate him is a ruin now, destroyed by the earthquake that left much of Haiti's capital in rubbles, but the allure of the priest-turned-president remains strong among the jobless men (...)
A team of engineers plan to venture where no man has gone before after unveiling a pedal-boat submarine on the French Riviera.
Nicknamed “the Scubster”, the 3.5 meter-long one-man yellow submarine has echoes of the fancy gadgets from fictional spy (...)
Pierre Dardenne is a 2005 film directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. The title translates as The Child but the film was released under its French title in the English-speaking world. The film was chosen as Belgium's official entry for (...)
Marc Lech and Didier Truchot, Co-Presidents of Ipsos, announce the adhesion of Ipsos to the United Nations Global Compact initiative.
This membership which was approved by the Ipsos Board of Directors on December 17th, 2008, is part of the program (...)
Baptiste Grange won the first men's World Cup Alpine skiing slalom of the season on Sunday after a duel with American Bode Miller.
The Frenchman, who won three slaloms last winter but was beaten to the World Cup title in the final race by Italian (...)
Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works characterized by “poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy” and focused on the environment, especially the desert.
Le Clezio, 68, is the first French writer to win the (...)
Marie Gustave Le Clezio has won the 2008 Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy announced. Here's more about the author described as “an author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the (...)
FORTY years after the French student and worker uprisings of May 1968, we are experiencing a flood: dozens of books, hundreds of articles, special editions of magazines are devoted to the riots and strikes of that month. A day doesn't pass without (...)
Claude Trichet's European economy may be reaping the rewards of risk aversion.
As the USteeters on the brink of a recession after the end of a five-year housing boom, growth in the 15 nations that share the euro is poised to outpace the American (...)
Maurice Ripert during the consultations said Israel must do more to release prisoners and alleviate restrictions in the Occupied Palestinian territories.
Ripert said he was “disturbed by recent settlement activities” and also recommended that (...)
PRESIDENT OF THE LUXEMBOURG-BASED EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK
SIGNED AN AGREEMENT SUNDAY TO CREATE A MULTILATERAL CARBON CREDIT
FUND.
UNDER THE NEW STRATEGY, THE EBRD IS PLANNING TO FOCUS MORE ON
RUSSIA AS WELL AS POORER COUNTRIES IN SOUTHEASTERN (...)
Claude Juncker, who had announced his intention to resign from the office he has held since 1995 in the event of a 'no' vote, welcomed the result, saying it showed that the European Constitution would continue to remain on the bloc's agenda.
"If (...)
Claude Junker, prime minister of current E.U. president Luxembourg, admitted he was "pretty certain" no agreement would be hammered out on 2007-13 spending plans at the summit.
The E.U.'s six wealthiest nations and greatest contributors to the (...)
general as a special envoy in Iraq and Iran.
Eliasson also served as an undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs for the United Nations. "Our main task now is to accept, and live up to, the triple challenges of development, security, and (...)
Pierre Fabre, secretary-general of the biggest opposition party, told Reuters.
There was no immediate sign of trouble in the streets of the seaside capital Lome, where soldiers manned the main crossroads, particularly in the opposition flashpoints (...)
Marie Fakhouri, said up to 200,000 refugees had already returned south from neighbouring countries since the beginning of 2004.
The government estimates about 400,000 people, who fled to other parts of Africa's largest country, have also returned (...)
المؤلف: Jean Michel Brieu
الناشر: Albin Michel- France
(كل التناقضات كانت مجسدة في ملامحه، كان هادئاً وبارداً ورومانسياً، وأكثر من دلك كله، كان ممثلاً ! ليس لأنه استطاع أن يكون كل تلك الملامح في الوقت ذاته، بل لأنه كان ذكياً في إبرازها وفي التعايش (...)
Claude Trichet has also raised the alarm about the current swings on the currency market and the euro's sharp upward shift against the dollar, describing them as "brutal" and "unwelcome".
The result is that the dollar's corresponding weakness (...)