Higgins urges greater role for cultureCulture and creativity should take centre stage in discussions on how to build more fulfilling and peaceful societies, President…Wed Feb 20 2013 - 00:00
Higgins hails 'genius' of Gray at Paris eventShe arrived in Paris as an independent-minded 24-year-old, drawn from her home in Co Wexford to the vibrancy of the belle époque…Tue Feb 19 2013 - 00:00
Higgins delivers major Paris speechEurope cannot address its problems unless it stops thinking of these are purely economic challenges that call for technocratic…Mon Feb 18 2013 - 00:00
Asda withdraws Greencore product with horse meatIrish food group Greencore became the latest company to become embroiled in the horse meat scandal when it confirmed it manufactured…Fri Feb 15 2013 - 00:00
Meat firm has its licence suspendedA French meat processing company has had its licence suspended after the government accused it of knowingly selling horse meat…Fri Feb 15 2013 - 00:00
France set to miss its deficit targetsFrance is braced for a new round of spending cuts after ministers admitted the government was likely to miss its deficit targets…Thu Feb 14 2013 - 00:00
French MPs approve Bill to allow gay marriageFrance took a big step towards introducing gay marriage yesterday when the National Assembly approved a draft law to extend marriage…Wed Feb 13 2013 - 00:00
French Bill set to pass after long and bitter debateAnalysis: Successful campaigns have served to prompt renewed opposition to gay rights in some countriesMon Feb 11 2013 - 00:00
Art collector claims to have found top part of Courbet's 'Origin of the World'It is one of the most famous images in art history, a painting deemed so scandalous that when it went on display at the Musée…Sat Feb 09 2013 - 00:00
France to begin pulling troops out of Mail next monthFrance has said it will begin pulling its troops out of Mali from next month, but continuing air raids and sporadic clashes with…Thu Feb 07 2013 - 00:00
Assassination plunges Tunisia into crisisThe Tunisian prime minister Hamadi Jebali declared last night that he would form a technocrat governmentThu Feb 07 2013 - 00:00
Hollande criticises UK attempt to dictate EU policyFrench president François Hollande has put himself firmly at odds with Germany and Britain on the eve of a key EU summit, reiterating…Wed Feb 06 2013 - 00:00
Washington backs France on Mali plansThe United States has supported France’s call for a UN peacekeeping mission to be formed in Mali.Tue Feb 05 2013 - 00:00
Jubilant crowds welcome Hollande to TimbuktuFrench jets struck more targets in northern Mali yesterday after President François Hollande told cheering Malian crowds he would…Mon Feb 04 2013 - 00:00
Five killed on day one of French intervention in Mali, says AmnestyAt least five civilians, including three children, were killed in an air strike by French-led forces on the first day of the …Sat Feb 02 2013 - 00:00
Real challenge is to secure lasting regional stabilityISSUE: With France at war in Mali, Algeria reeling from an unprecedented terrorist attack and 60 people dead after violent unrest…Sat Feb 02 2013 - 00:00
France backs proposals for UN peacekeeping force for MaliFrance has put its weight behind the idea of sending a United Nations peacekeeping force into Mali.Fri Feb 01 2013 - 00:00
French lose their heads over TV documentary about RobespierreIt’s not that France has no shortage of current concernsFri Feb 01 2013 - 00:00
Family ejected from Paris museum because of 'their smell'France’s culture minister has described as “regrettable” an incident in which a poor family were thrown out of one of Paris’s…Thu Jan 31 2013 - 00:00
French gain control of airport in Mali townFrench troops took control of the airport of Mali’s northeastern town of Kidal yesterday, bringing them to within striking distance…Thu Jan 31 2013 - 00:00
War now entering an uncertain phaseAlmost three weeks into its military intervention in Mali, France is doing little to conceal its satisfaction with how events…Wed Jan 30 2013 - 00:00
France to hand control of military operation in Mali to African forcesFrance has said it will move quickly to hand over control of its military operation in Mali, leaving it to African forces to …Wed Jan 30 2013 - 00:00
French forces welcomed to TimbuktuFrench-led forces seized control of the desert town of Timbuktu yesterday, meeting no resistance as they continued their advance…Tue Jan 29 2013 - 00:00
Fleeing rebels torch priceless ancient library in TimbuktuFrench-led forces retook control of the fabled desert town of Timbuktu yesterday amid reports that fleeing militants had destroyed…Tue Jan 29 2013 - 00:00
French parliament to debate gay marriage BillAfter months of bitter political wrangling and some of the biggest street protests of the past decade, France’s parliament will…Tue Jan 29 2013 - 00:00
Mali: not another AfghanistanAs tensions mount in Mali and Algeria, it’s feared that northwest Africa could become ‘Europe’s Afghanistan’Sat Jan 26 2013 - 00:00
Canadian 'co-ordinated' Algeria siegeA Canadian citizen led the four-day siege that ended with the killing of at least 37 foreign workers at a gas plant in the Sahara…Tue Jan 22 2013 - 00:00
Paris and London try to defuse tensions over Algeria hostage crisisFrance and Britain have moved to ease diplomatic difficulties over the Algerian hostage crisis, defending their north African…Mon Jan 21 2013 - 00:00
Kidnappers still hold foreigners in Algerian plantWorld capitals remained in crisis mode last night as one of the worst international hostage dramas in decades continued at a …Sat Jan 19 2013 - 00:00
Algeria's oil and gas industries pillars of its economyAnalysis After an attack that struck at the heart of Algeria’s vital energy industry, the stakes have risen sharply for the …Sat Jan 19 2013 - 00:00
Irish man freed as Algeria defends rescue missionAlgeria is facing mounting criticism after its assault on the besieged gas plant in its southern desert left many hostages dead…Fri Jan 18 2013 - 00:00
Confusion over military raid to end hostage crisisEven as Algeria announced the end of its military operation to regain control of its desert gas refinery last night, there were…Fri Jan 18 2013 - 00:00
Algerian forces surround hostage-takersAlgeria said its forces had encircled a gas field where Islamist militants were holding a large group of foreign workers, including…Thu Jan 17 2013 - 00:00
French think tank report proposes ways to make EU more democraticThe European Commission president should be elected and EU states’ VAT should be “centralised at the federal level”, according…Thu Jan 17 2013 - 00:00
Sales stable as French do not bridle at horse meatDid you like that tender, ever-so-slightly sweet entrecôte de cheval your waiter recommended in the little village restaurant…Thu Jan 17 2013 - 00:00
Algerian militant Belmokhtar believed to be behind taking of gas field hostagesAn Islamist group led by an Algerian militant with a history of kidnapping and smuggling in the Sahara is believed to be responsible…Thu Jan 17 2013 - 00:00
France to treble troop numbers in Mali to 2,500France is set to treble its troop numbers in Mali, widening an intervention President François Hollande said would end only once…Wed Jan 16 2013 - 00:00
French operation fraught with uncertaintyANALYSIS: For all of the West’s declared ‘solidarity’, in real terms France is on its ownWed Jan 16 2013 - 00:00
French fighter aircraft strike at Mali IslamistsIslamist rebels mounted a counter-offensive in Mali yesterday, seizing a government-controlled town as French fighter jets continued…Tue Jan 15 2013 - 00:00
French step up military action in north MaliFrance tightened security on public transport and at state buildings yesterday as it widened its military action against Islamist…Mon Jan 14 2013 - 00:00
Hollande's war aims remain unclearANALYSIS: A foreign military intervention in Mali may not have come as much of a surprise – the idea had gathered irresistible…Mon Jan 14 2013 - 00:00
Mission to rescue hostage failsA French commando team failed in an attempt to rescue a secret service agent in a hostage rescue mission in southern Somalia …Mon Jan 14 2013 - 00:00
Marchers in Paris oppose extending gay rightsHundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris yesterday in opposition to plans to give gay couples the right…Mon Jan 14 2013 - 00:00
PKK founder among victims shot in ParisFrench police are seeking a motive for the killing of three Kurdish women, including a founding member of the Kurdish militant…Fri Jan 11 2013 - 00:00
Students want identities of tweet-postersA French student group has taken the social network Twitter to court in Paris, claiming it should reveal the identities of users…Thu Jan 10 2013 - 00:00
'Unfair' tax practices linked to Virgin's woesFrance’s culture minister has accused Amazon and other online retailers of “unfair competition” by using foreign bases to avoid…Thu Jan 10 2013 - 00:00
Inquiry into claims minister had secret Swiss accountA French prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into claims that budget minister Jérôme Cahuzac had a secret bank …Thu Jan 10 2013 - 00:00
Marriage debate intensifies in FranceFrance’s classrooms have become the latest battleground in an increasingly fraught debate on the government’s plan to introduce…Wed Jan 09 2013 - 00:00
Hollande planning levy to replace 75% supertaxJust a week after France’s highest court threw out its plan for a 75 per cent supertax on the rich, François Hollande’s government…Tue Jan 08 2013 - 00:00
