Snowden leaks: France summons US envoy over NSA surveillance claims | World news
theguardian.com - By Sam Jones, Angelique Chrisafis - Oct. 21 (News) - Demand follows claims in Le Monde that US agency has been intercepting phone calls of French citizens on 'a massive...
View ArticleGermany, France demand 'no-spy' agreement with US - Reuters
Reuters - Oct. 25 (News) - Germany, France demand 'no-spy' agreement with US Reuters Speaking after talks with EU leaders that were dominated by allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency had...
View ArticleGermany and France push US to agree to spying rules
CollapseNet - Oct. 26 (News) - “Germany and France are to spearhead a drive to try to force the Americans to agree new transatlantic rules on intelligence and security service behaviour in the wake of...
View ArticleFrance Crashes the Geneva Party, Scuttles Iran Deal
Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Nov. 10 (Opinion) - The Iranian newspaper Tabnak printed a minute-by-minute account of Saturday’s dramatic on-again off-again push toward a diplomatic agreement on...
View ArticleWhy Did France Thwart The Iran nuclear deal?
The Real News - By Robert Parry, Jaisal Noor - Nov. 16 (News Analysis) - France is widely being either praised or blamed for scuttling talks over Iran's nuclear program in Geneva last weekend. The...
View ArticleIn Israel, Hollande says France won't waver on Iran
The Times of Israel - By Lazar Berman, Raphael Ahren, Adiv Sterman - Nov. 17 (News Report) - France will uphold economic sanctions on Iran as long as the Islamic Republic does not prove it has taken...
View ArticleHow the global spy game is changing
Christian Science Monitor - By Howard LaFranchi - Nov. 18 (Special Report) - Revelations of US spying on European allies have hurt America's image abroad but won't irreparably damage transatlantic...
View ArticleNetanyahu steps up attack on prospect of Iran nuclear weapons deal | World news
theguardian.com - By Dominic Rushe - Nov. 18 (News) - Israeli PM calls for sanctions and says he will not allow 'ayatollahs with nuclear weapons' to threaten 'the Jewish people'NewsTrust Rating: 4.7...
View ArticleWorld War I Led to a Century of Violence in the Middle East
Der Spiegel - By Bernhard Zand - Feb. 04 (Review) - World War I may have ended in 1918, but the violence it triggered in the Middle East still hasn't come to an end. Arbitrary borders drawn by...
View ArticlePiketty fever: Bigger than Marx
Economist - By The Economist - May. 03 (News) - A wonky book on inequality becomes a blockbuster...IT IS the closest thing to a pop-culture sensation heavyweight economics will ever provide. “Capital...
View ArticleGates: French cyber spies target U.S.
The Politico - By Philip Ewing - May. 22 (News) - France is second to China in terms of the theft of U.S. intellectual property.NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit...
View ArticlePetition with 150,000 signatures calls on France to grant Snowden asylum
aljazeera.com - By Renee Lewis - Jun. 15 (News) - A petition has gathered more than 150,000 signatures as of Friday urging President Francois Hollande to grant whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum in...
View ArticleEU politicians speak out after wave of anti-Semitic attacks
Daily Telegraph - By Justin Huggler - Jul. 22 (News) - The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Italy have spoken out against a disturbing wave of violent anti-Semitic attacks across Europe in the...
View ArticleIn Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons
firstlook.org - By Glenn Greenwald - Jan. 15 (News Analysis) - this week’s defense of free speech rights was so spirited that it gave rise to a brand new principle: to defend free speech, one not only...
View ArticleFox News Becomes the Unwilling Star of a French TV Satire
New York Times - By By DOREEN CARVAJAL - Jan. 21 (News) - Fox issued a correction and an apology after “Le Petit Journal,” a mock news program, satirized the American channel for reporting on “no-go...
View ArticleWhy serious people discount Fox News
seattletimes.com - By Leonard Pitts Jr. - Jan. 25 (Opinion) - In America, it has come to seem normal that a major news organization functions as the propaganda arm of an extremist political...
View ArticleArming Ukraine will put the West in danger
Reuters - By Nader Mousavizadeh - Feb. 06 (Opinion) - A dangerous, possibly irreversible, dynamic of conflict is taking hold of Russian-Western relations. In every arena of the Ukraine crisis,...
View ArticleUrgency increases from world leaders trying to broker Moscow-Ukraine cease-fire
Washington Post - By Anthony Faiola, Michael Birnbaum, Carol Morello - Feb. 07 (News Report) - MUNICH — The viability of a joint French and German proposal to halt fighting in eastern Ukraine faced...
View ArticleMerkel defends Ukraine arms stance in face of U.S. criticism
Reuters - By Stephen Brown, Noah Barkin - Feb. 07 (News Report) - Germany's Angela Merkel said on Saturday that sending arms to help Ukraine fight pro-Russian separatists would not solve the crisis...
View ArticleIs peace possible in Ukraine? Key leaders meet to find out
CNN - By Laura Smith-Spark, Nic Robertson - Feb. 11 (Special Report) - Four key leaders converged on Belarus' capital Wednesday with one official mission: bringing peace to Ukraine. Whether they can...
View Article'Glimmer of hope' for Ukraine after deal at Minsk peace summit - Reuters
Reuters - By Vladimir Soldatkin, Pavel Polityuk - Feb. 12 (Special Report) - Russia and Ukraine agreed a deal on Thursday that offers a "glimmer of hope" for an end to fighting in eastern Ukraine after...
View ArticleThe War Next Door: Can Merkel's Diplomacy Save Europe?
Der Spiegel - Feb. 14 (News Analysis) - Chancellor Angela Merkel has often been accused of hesitancy. But in Minsk this week, she committed herself to helping find a way to quiet the weapons in...
View ArticleIran deal could start nuclear fuel race - Saudi Arabia
bbc.com - By Barbara Plett Usher - Mar. 16 (News Report) - A senior member of the Saudi royal family has warned that a deal on Iran's nuclear programme could prompt other regional states to develop...
View ArticleEurope Offered Greece A Deal To Meet Its Obligations By Cutting Military...
Huffington Post - By Daniel Marans - Jun. 15 (News Report) - the IMF vetoed a compromise that cut military spending proposed by the European Commission. European officials involved in the negotiations...
View ArticleFrance Targeted by NSA Spies and Parliament Passes Surveillance Law
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