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In her first public meeting after a summer break in the tiny village of Brachay in northeaste France, Le Pen portrayed herself as the sole credible defender of law and order and national unity, saying the best way to combat terrorism was the ballot paper. "This referendum on France belonging to the European Union, I will do it. Yes it is possible to change things. Look at the Brits, they chose their destiny, they chose independence ... We can again be a free, proud and independent people," she said, Reuters reported. The National Front was the only major French political party to call for Britons to vote to leave the European Union, hoping Brexit would boost its own euroskeptic agenda at home. Le Pen's increasingly popular party thrives on anti-Europe and anti-immigration sentiment and opinion polls see her making it to an early May run-off in France's presidential election, but losing that second round to a mainstream candidate, as a majority of voters do not want her as president. ,france,francescas,france flag,france map,frances bean cobain,france news,france 24,france national team,francesca eastwood,francesca battistelli ...ادامه مطلب

State media reported Thursday that the new rules placed responsibility squarely on head editors, saying news sites must monitor their content 24 hours a day to ensure "correct orientation, factual accuracy and appropriate sourcing." The rules come at a time when Xi is ratcheting up control over Chinese media and cyberspace, according to the Associated Press. Tencent, one of China's most popular websites, fired its top editor after a July headline mistakenly said Xi delivered a "furious" — instead of "important" — speech commemorating a Communist Party anniversary. In March, an online portal called Wujie appeared to inadvertently publish a letter calling for Xi's resignation. Let's block ads! بخوانید,china tightens controls on moving money overseas,china tightens control of social media,china tightens internet controls,china tightens church control,china tightens web controls ...ادامه مطلب

“The people of Yemen continue to bear the brunt of the suffering as a result of the inability of the parties to find a political solution to a conflict that has been raging for more than a year and a half. The retu to full-scale hostilities only drives humanitarian needs further,” said Jamie McGoldrick, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, in a statement, adding: “A political solution is the only solution to this crisis.” According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), local media has reported that ground fighting and air strikes have killed and maimed children and women, and destroyed homes and markets, particularly in the capital, Sana’a, and its goveorates, Sa’ada, Taizz, and Al Hudaydah. Mr. McGoldrick pointed out that the depletion of foreign currency reserves in the Central Bank has made it difficult for importers to obtain lines of credit – “making it nearly impossible for Govement entities to maintain basic social servi, ...ادامه مطلب

French Interior Minister Baard Cazeneuve told reporters on Wednesday that 1,800 firefighters were battling multiple fires. Four firefighters were injured, three of them seriously, by one of the fires, in the nearby Herault region, he said. The fires started in Rognac, north of Vitrolles, authorities said, adding that the cause remained unknown, NBC News reported. Two people were reported injured, one of them seriously, as the fire in Vitrolles moved toward Marseille, about 15 miles south. Firefighters said that 20 to 25 homes were bued. The evacuations Wednesday represent almost 15 percent of the population of Vitrolles. Marseille Provence Airport was closed for a period, but it had reopened Wednesday night. Vitrolles officials told NBC News that more residents were likely to be evacuated as fire crews ramped up efforts to keep the flames out of Marseille, the third-largest city in France and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Deputy Mayor Julien Ruas said that fire, ...ادامه مطلب

Speaking at a television talk show on Monday night, Head of Iran's Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Saeed Ohadi said the country’s Foreign Ministry has been assigned the task of handling the Mina tragedy case via legal and political channels, adding that a legal committee has been formed to deal with the issue. He noted that the Foreign Ministry’s consular department is going to release the results of its efforts to restore the rights of the “Mina martyrs.” Ohadi added that a delegation from the ministry will visit France to pursue the case as France is playing the role of a mediator. He once again took a swipe at the Saudis for lack of cooperation, saying the families of the victims or those injured in the crush have not yet received any compensation from the Riyadh regime. Apart from serious efforts to, ...ادامه مطلب

Frederic Gagey told France Info radio the strike in the middle of the summer vacation season had a "very negative impact on Air France's image,” the Associated Press reported. The company plans to operate all long-distance flights Tuesday, the last day of the strike. About 10 percent of domestic flights and 15 percent of European flights to and from Paris Charles-de-Gaulle airport are cancelled. Air France's cabin crew are protesting against a further decrease in staff numbers and poor working conditions. Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

The week-long stoppage began Tuesday and Friday saw Paris' other main airport Orly cancel 20 percent of the carrier's flights with further medium-haul cancellations likely later in the day, the sources said, AFP reported. Roissy was maintaining more than nine out of ten long-haul and three quarters of medium-haul flights. Management said in a statement the carrier would maintain 80 percent of Saturday flights -- the same figure forecast across Friday. Unions representing around half of the strikers called the stoppage after marathon talks failed to reach a breakthrough on renewing a collective labor accord on rules, pay and promotions that expires in October. Management want to limit the extension of the agreement to 17 months, whereas unions want between three and five years. The new CEO of the Air France-KLM group, Jean-Marc Janaillac, told daily Le Figaro Thursday that the strike was "regrettable and aggressive", coming at the height of the holiday travel period. Unions retorted that management was being "obstinate" in insisting on a shorter accord time frame. Air France flights operated by low-cost airlines HOP! and Transavia, as well as KLM and Delta codeshares, were not affected by a stoppage which affected some 30,000 passengers Thursday. The pilots' last strike, which grounded around 20 percent of flights on June 11-14 right at the start of Euro 2016, hit France as it was gripped by social unrest over the Socialist govement's labor reforms. Air France estimated that the stoppage cost it some 40 million euros ($45 million)The week-long stoppage began Tuesday and Friday saw Paris' other main airport Orly cancel 20 percent of the carrier's flights with further medium-haul cancellations likely later in the day, the sources said, AFP reported. Roissy was maintaining more than nine out of ten long-haul and three quarters of medium-haul flights. Management said in a statement the carrier would maintain 80 percent of Saturday flights -- the same figure forecast acro, ...ادامه مطلب

The assailant has been named as 19-year-old Abdel Malik Petitjean, who was listed in June on France's "Fiche S" system of people posing a potential threat to national security after he tried to reach Syria from Turkey, AFP reported. Petitjean threatened France and directly addressed President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls in the footage released by Daesh (also known as ISIL and ISIS). Dressed in a striped t-shirt, Petitjean speaks mostly in French but uses some Arabic phrases, and appears to be filming in a home. Petitjean, whose face was disfigured when he was shot dead by police, had been harder to identify than his accomplice Adel Kermiche, also 19. Investigators confirmed his identity after a DNA match with his mother. The pair pledged allegiance to Daesh in a video made before they stormed a church in the Normandy town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray Tuesday and slit the throat of 86-year-old priest Jacques Hamel at the altar. The president of the Conference of Bishops in France Georges Pontier called on all Catholics in the country to observe a day of national prayers and fasting Friday "for our country and for peace in the world". The church attack came as the govement was already facing a firestorm of criticism over alleged security failings after the Bastille Day truck massacre in Nice that left 84 people dead two weeks ago. Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

“We are standing by you in the battle against al-Qaeda and Boko Haram,” Zarif said in a meeting with Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama in Abuja on Monday. He praised the age-old and deep-rooted relations between Iran and Nigeria, and said the two countries cooperate in inteational bodies and organizations such as OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF). The Iranian foreign minister then expressed satisfaction with the level of cooperation between the two countries in the field of culture and noted that many Nigerian students are studying in Iranian universities. The Nigerian minister, for his part, said Iran is a very important country in the region and the world and expressed his country’s willingness to improve relations with the Islamic Republic in political, economic, scientific, cultural and inteational issues. Onyeama further said that cooperation between Iran and Nigeria would play a leading role in the stability of the inteational oil market. He noted that Nigeria does not want to be an oil-dependent state and is ready to exchange experience with Iran in this regard. Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

Cycling's most famous race will reach its conclusion with a sprint down the Champs-Elysees boulevard in the heart of the French capital. Paris police, on a heightened state of alert following the Bastille Day assault that killed 84 people in Nice and the November terror attacks in the capital, are taking no chances and vowed Saturday "enhanced" security measures. That includes restrictions on public street access, a crackdown on alcoholic drinks, reduced parking and a ban on fireworks and imitation firearms, AFP reported. Police also waed they would be checking people's identity and searching bags and vehicles, as well as scouring the entire 113 kilometer (70-mile) route of the final Tour stage from Chantilly just north of Paris.  Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

 The attack opened yet another chapter of terrorism that is spreading in the world and targeting the entire humanity not a specific religion or group, Hezbollah said in a statement on Saturday, according to the Arabic-language Al-Manar news channel. “The terrorist operations that some Weste countries are witnessing are the aftershocks of the terrorism that is underway in our region and has shed the blood of our nations,” the statement read. Such criminal acts remind countries across the world that they must fulfill their duty to uproot terrorism and destroy all sources of funding and supporting terror groups. A French-Tunisian criminal well known to the police for armed attack killed at least 84 people when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd that had watched Bastille Day fireworks in Nice late on Thursday. Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group claimed responsibility Saturday for the attack by Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel. The Aamaq news agency, a Daesh-run media outlet, on Saturday cited a "security source" as saying the attacker “carried out the operation in response to calls to target the citizens of coalition countries fighting” the Daesh. French authorities said they were checking the claim. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers.Recommended article from FiveFilters.org: Most Labour MPs in the UK Are Revolting., ...ادامه مطلب

Tunisian-bo Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old delivery driver, was reported to be a French passport holder who lived in the Riviera city and was regularly in trouble with the law. At least 10 children are among the dead following the "cowardly and barbaric" atrocity that left at least one British national among the many injured. Officials fear the death toll will rise. As hundreds remained in hospital - including 18 fighting for their lives in intensive care - anti-terrorist judges opened an investigation into "mass murder" and investigators searched the home of the driver in the Abattoirs area of Nice. Investigating sources said Bouhlel's last appearance in a criminal court was as recently as March, when he was found guilty of violent contact. Despite this, he had no known links with terrorism and was not under surveillance. An investigating source said: "An operation is currently underway at the dead suspect’s home in Nice. It is being raided by officers." Bouhel left his French identity card in the hired 19 tonne lorry used to murder dozens of people on Thursday night. A woman living in the same shabby apartment block as Bouhel today told how he "seemed very weird". She told The Telegraph, "He lived alone. He said very little to anyone and wasn’t very polite. He wouldn’t hold the door open for you." His truck had zigzagged through crowds massing on the Promenade des Anglais, killing anyone he could. After being stopped by armed police, who fired bullets into the lorry’s windscreen, the so far unnamed man exchanged fire with officers using a 7.65 pistol, before being shot dead. A search of the vehicle uncovered a pistol, a larger gun, and a number of fake weapons and grenades. The fact that the killer was known to the authorities will be of grave conce to those trying to prevent terrorist attacks in France. A recent Paris parliamentary investigation into last year’s attacks identified multiple failings by France’s intelligence agencies. This entry passed th, ...ادامه مطلب

The informed official in Iran’s Foreign Ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity, decried French politicians for not bothering to take a serious action against the anti-Iran terrorist group. “Calling the Munafiqeen (MKO) group ‘terrorists and violent’ and pointing to its sectarian conduct is not enough alone,” the Iranian official said Thursday. The official also noted that Paris’s reaction was below expectations considering that France has in recent years regarded itself as a major European victim of terrorist attacks by the Takfiri groups that benefit from the backing of certain reactionary countries and founders of al-Qaeda and Daesh (ISIL). The official also made a reference to France’s constant expression of determination to tackle terrorism and extremist groups. The comments came after the French Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that it maintained “no contact” with the MKO. “Its (MKO’s) violent and non-democratic inspiration has led several human rights organizations to underline its sectarian practices and its refusal to formally renounce violence,” French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal reportedly said at a press briefing. The reaction came after Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned the French ambassador on Tuesday to protest about a recent meeting held in Paris by the MKO. On July 9, the MKO terrorists held a meeting in Paris, with diplomats from some Arab states, including Saudis, making anti-Iran comments in the gathering. The MKO - listed as a terrorist organization by much of the inteational community - fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq and was given a camp by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. They fought on the side of Saddam during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-88). They were also involved in the bloody repression of Shiite Muslims in southe Iraq in 1991 and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds. The notorious group is also responsible for killing thousands of Iranian civilians and officials after the victory of the Islamic revolution in 1979. More, ...ادامه مطلب

"We can't extend the state of emergency indefinitely, it would make no sense. That would mean we're no longer a republic with the rule of law applied in all circumstances," Hollande said as cited by Reuters. France had twice extended the state of emergency with its extra powers of detention for police and other security measures, the last time until July 26 to cover the Euro 2016 soccer touament and the end of the Tour de France cycling race. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers.Recommended article from FiveFilters.org: Most Labour MPs in the UK Are Revolting., ...ادامه مطلب

The strike action was the latest in a series of protests over growing economic hardship blamed allegedly on the policies of 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe, who has been in power for 36 years. "We have gathered from our intelligence that there was involvement of weste embassies in all these disturbances that have been taking place," Zimbabwe’s home affairs minister Ignatius Chombo said, AFP reported. "The evidence that we have gathered so far shows that the French embassy in Harare and other embassies are part of this plot as part of their regime change machinations." US ambassador Harry Thomas had in May met one of the organizers of last week's work boycott, the cleric Evan Mawarire, and French ambassador Laurent Delahousse was "believed to have met Mawarire several times". "I deny in the strongest terms any involvement with any organization," Delahousse told AFP. "The authorities should focus on working for the good of the people and should investigate police violence." Zimbabwe‘s Information minister Christopher Mushowe waed Sunday that the authorities were tracking "all those who are abusing the social media to cause unrest in the country". The govement has waed that anyone sharing "subversive" material would be arrested. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers.Recommended article from FiveFilters.org: Most Labour MPs in the UK Are Revolting., ...ادامه مطلب