Gay Marriage Legalised in France Amid Strong Protests - International Business Times Canada France has finally acted on its motto, 'Liberty, equality and Fraternity' when its President Francois Hollande legalised the law allowing gay 05/19/2013 - 7:51 am | View Link
France president signs marriage equality law - Windy City Times Paris, France - On Saturday, President Hollande signed a bill that gives gays and lesbians the ... "France is sending a strong message to the world 05/19/2013 - 6:00 am | View Link
Le iTax: France’s mad new plan to battle internet pirates - GQ Magazine UK If you're France, the same way you solve any problem: with a new tax. This week, Francois Hollande ... s bound to be met by a strong resistance ... 05/17/2013 - 3:41 pm | View Link
Berlin, Paris not 'bosom' buddies but get on fine, Merkel says - Reuters ... said on Thursday, but her working relationship with Francois Hollande was strong and crucial ... down criticism she has received from France's 05/16/2013 - 12:25 pm | View Link
Merkel, Hollande at odds over Europe's way forward - Japan Today Germany and France recognize that their cooperation is ... French President Francois Hollande argued that ... — of what actually makes us ... 05/16/2013 - 7:27 am | View Link
France says no change to cuts plan after minister quits PARIS (Reuters) - France's new budget minister said on Wednesday he would stick to the spending cuts planned by his predecessor, whose sudden resignation in a tax ... 03/20/2013 - 5:58 pm | View Link
Al Qaeda rebels wanted Mali as base for global attacks: France ... View Photo. Reuters/Reuters - France's Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (C) speaks to French soldiers at a French military encampment at a Malian air ... 03/8/2013 - 2:34 pm | View Link
France hunting fraudsters in horsemeat scandal PARIS (AP) — Europe's horsemeat scandal is spreading and threatening cross-border tensions, as France says Romanian butchers and Dutch and Cypriot ... 02/10/2013 - 8:31 am | View Link
Lagerfeld supports gay marriage in lesbian couture PARIS (AP) — Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel's veteran couturier, has shown his support for the legalization of gay marriage in France by sending two models down ... 01/22/2013 - 6:27 pm | View Link
Terrorists Taunt France After Failed Rescue Mission From Yahoo! News: Al Qaeda-Allied Group Posts Grisly Pictures of Fallen French Commando 01/13/2013 - 6:59 pm | View Link
Criticae | A blog for policies and politics by Ivan Kalburov A blog for policies and politics by Ivan Kalburov ... Много книги се изписаха на тема как технологиите променят ... 05/22/2013 - 11:17 pm | View Website
La French Attitude | Fashion fades, only style remains the same ... Loathe or like her… IFrom what I read in France the opinion is quite mixed while some of us would love to have someone with such determination these days some only ... 05/22/2013 - 9:01 pm | View Website
Some of Patrice Ayme's Thoughts | Intelligence at the core of ... Intelligence at the core of humanism. (by Patrice Ayme) ... Of worshipped stupidities the most vicious aspects of thought and emotional systems are made. 05/22/2013 - 5:33 pm | View Website
ISLAMIC TERRORISM AND RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION | Lee Jay Walker ... Lee Jay Walker – radical Islam & terrorism ... Libya and Mali: Salafi Islamists destroying shrines courtesy of Saudi Arabia and Qatar 05/22/2013 - 5:09 am | View Website
jcdurbant | Tintin au pays des soviets (a war blog from France) Tintin au pays des soviets (a war blog from France) 05/21/2013 - 1:16 pm | View Website
France News World news about France. Breaking news and archival information about its people, politics and economy from The New York Times. 05/22/2013 - 6:02 pm | View Website
François Hollande François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (born 12 August 1954) is the 24th and current President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra. He was previously the First ... 05/22/2013 - 5:44 am | View Website
France’s battered economy: François Hollande’s cyclical ... IT IS hard to detect any benefit for President François Hollande in the tax-avoidance scandal that cost him his budget minister in March. Jérôme Cahuzac, formerly ... 04/19/2013 - 12:04 am | View Website
Biden hails Hollande’s ‘decisiveness’ on Mali US Vice President Joe Biden on Monday held talks with French President François Hollande on what he called a “global agenda” of issues, including France's ... 02/4/2013 - 9:36 am | View Website
US family leaves Singapore frustrated with inquest
SINGAPORE (AP) — The parents of an American software engineer found dead in his Singapore apartment last year have left the city-state before the end of a coroner's inquest.
Md. police: Off-duty trooper dragged by car
DENTON, Md. (AP) — Maryland State Police say a trooper is in critical condition after he was dragged by a car while off duty in Caroline County.
Police say the trooper apparently confronted three juveniles in a car in Denton on Wednesday evening when they appeared to be involved in some kind of vandalism.
The trooper approached group on foot and while he was speaking to them, police say the driver of the car accelerated and the trooper was somehow dragged.
Obama to address drones, Gitmo in security speech
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Updated 5:35 am, Thursday, May 23, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday is expected to address some of the thornier aspects of national security policy, including drone strikes, the prison at Guantanamo Bay and the dire threats Americans continue to face — even from fellow citizens.
On the eve of the president's speech at the National Defense University, the Obama administration revealed for the first time that a fourth American citizen had been killed in secretive drone strikes abroad.
Obama's speech is expected to reaffirm his national security priorities — from homegrown terrorists to killer drones to the enemy combatants held at the military-run detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — but make no new sweeping policy announcements.
Obama will try to refocus an increasingly apathetic public on security issues as his administration grapples with a series of unrelated controversies stemming from the attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, the IRS' targeting of conservative groups and government monitoring of reporters.
In a letter Wednesday to congressional leaders, Holder said only one of the U.S. citizens killed in counterterror operations beyond war zones — Anwar al-Awlaki, who had ties to at least three attacks planned or carried out on U.S. soil — was specifically targeted by American forces.
For months Congress has urged Obama to release a classified Justice Department legal opinion justifying when U.S. counterterror missions, including drone strikes, can be used to kill American citizens abroad.
Human Rights First legal director Dixon Osburn welcomed the White House's pledge for more transparency but remained "deeply concerned that the administration appears to be institutionalizing a problematic targeted killing policy without public debate on whether the rules are lawful or appropriate."
Against the backdrop of last month's deadly double-bombing at the Boston Marathon, administration officials said Obama will highlight the persistent threat of homegrown terrorists — militants or extremists who are either American citizens or have lived in the U.S. for years.
3 charged with meth in home near NH courthouse
LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — Three people have been arrested in a home directly across the street from a New Hampshire courthouse, charged with possession and intent to make methamphetamine.
Authorities said a search warrant turned up other drugs in the house and equipment to make meth.
LUBBOCK, Texas - The driver of a parade float involved in a train wreck that killed four war veterans in West Texas told investigators that the oncoming train appeared to be stationary and that he did not notice anything was wrong until he saw people jumping from the float, according to documents released Wednesday.