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Post for Sarko Son Sparks
Howls of Protest

Law student tapped to run huge, lucrative business district

Oct 13, 09 4:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's not every day that a 23-year-old law student is tapped to manage the largest office park in Europe, but when you are Jean Sarkozy, anything's possible. The son of the French president, who already has a local government post, has the ruling party's official backing to run La Dé... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Paris • nepotism • Jean Sarkozy • commercial real estate

 Tudor Sailor 
 Bones Set 
 for Exhibit 

400 went down on Mary Rose as dismayed king watched

Oct 12, 09 5:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - The bones of King Henry VIII's faithful fighters will soon go on display in a Portsmouth museum, nearly 500 years after they were defeated at sea by the French. The sailors of the flagship Mary Rose went down to defeat in a battle among 80 other Tudor vessels against 225... More »

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France • England • warfare • navy • The Tudors • King Henry VIII

 Hadron Collider 
 Physicist Admits He 
 Was Al-Qaeda Mole 


Standford University Ph.D. was about to mount attack: officials

Oct 12, 09 2:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - A top-level nuclear physicist working on the Hadron Collider has admitted being an Al-Qaeda spy, French officials are reporting. Adlène Hicheur, 32, is expected to be charged today after investigators discovered he suggested targets to the terror organization, reports the Independent. French officials believe the Stanford University Ph.D.... More »

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Algeria • France • physicist • scientist • al-Qaeda • terror network • CERN • Large Hadron Collider • terror attack • Adlène Hicheur

Nuclear Scientist Arrested for Alleged al-Qaeda Ties

CERN says researcher didn't work on dangerous projects

Oct 9, 09 2:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - French authorities have arrested a researcher working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on suspicion that he has been in contact with al-Qaeda. Police say they believe the 32-year-old and his brother contacted people linked to the terror group online, and they had been planning an attack in... More »

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terrorism • France • al-Qaeda • CERN • Large Hadron Collider • European Organization for Nuclear Research • LHC Beauty

French Minister Slammed Over Sex Tourism

Mitterand defended Polanski, admitted 'paying for boys' in book

Oct 8, 09 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand's own past has come back to haunt him in the wake of his calls for Roman Polanski's release. Opposition lawmakers have brought attention to passages in his autobiography where he defends sex tourism and admits paying for young—and, he implies, underage—boys. "I... More »

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France • underage sex • Roman Polanski • sex tourism • Frederic Mitterand

 Sarko to French Pols: 
 Put Down the Croissants 

French government gets the fitness bug after president loses 15 pounds

Oct 7, 09 7:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy has lost 15 pounds since he married Carla Bruni, subsisting on a diet of cottage cheese, fruit compote, and bottled water—and he's not the only one in the French government who's slimming down. As the Times of London reports, Sarkozy is pressuring his ministers to lose weight,... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • France • weight loss • diet • French politics • overweight • Carla Bruni • Christine Lagarde

Fan Crush Crashes Bruni's New Website

Showcase for 'ultimate modern woman's' charity work collapses under onslaught

Oct 6, 09 3:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - A much-hyped website showcasing Carla Bruni's work as France's first lady crashed within minutes of its launch yesterday after receiving thousands of hits. Administrators at carlabrunisarkozy.org said the site—which describes the ex-model as "the ultimate modern woman"—couldn't cope with the demand and advised visitors to... More »

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philanthropy • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • website • Carla Bruni • first lady

 Zut Alors! 
 French 
 Attack 
 Big Macs 
 at Louvre 

Wake up and smell the French fries, Mona Lisa

Oct 5, 09 3:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - News that a McDonald's will open just yards from the entrance of the Louvre museum has sent lovers of French culture into conniptions. “This is the pinnacle of exhausting consumerism, deficient gastronomy and very unpleasant odors in the context of a museum,” sniffed one art historian who works... More »

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McDonald's • France • museum • The Louvre

France, Poland Backtrack
on Polanski Support

Calls for director's release dropped as public backlash grows

Oct 1, 09 4:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - The governments of France and Poland are beginning to distance themselves from Roman Polanski amid a public backlash against earlier support for the film director, who holds passports from both countries. In France—where the foreign minister called for Polanski's release earlier this week—a government spokesman said yesterday that... More »

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Poland • France • extradition • Roman Polanski • child rape

 Whoopi Calls 
 Polanski Case 
 'Not Rape-Rape,' 
 Triggers Uproar 

Hollywood supporters facing off against angry feminists over sex with teen

Sep 30, 09 4:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Whoopi Goldberg's comment that Roman Polanski's sex with a 13-year-old girl wasn't really "rape-rape" has added fuel to the growing conflagration between the film director's Hollywood supporters and angry feminists. "I know it wasn't rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don't believe it was rape-rape,... More »

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crime • France • Los Angeles • rape • district attorney • feminists • Roman Polanski • child rape • Samantha Geimer • anal sex

 Your Polanski Case FAQ 

Including the big one—why now?

Sep 29, 09 12:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scratching your head over this Roman Polanski business? Don’t worry, we’re here to help. Here are some common questions and answers, courtesy of Slate:
  • Why didn’t the French ever arrest the guy? Born in Paris, he's one of their own. France doesn’t have to
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France • prosecutorial misconduct • extradition • Roman Polanski • statute of limitations • statutory rape

 24th Suicide 
 Hits France Telecom 

Stressed-out call center worker jumps from bridge, blames company

Sep 29, 09 4:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - A call-center worker has become the 24th victim of what France Telecom calls a "spiral of suicides" among its employees over the last 18 months. The 51-year-old father of two jumped from a bridge onto a highway during morning rush hour in a small town in the French Alps,... More »

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suicide • France • stress • France Telecom • suicide prevention

Roman Polanski Will Fight Extradition: Lawyer 

French, Polish ministers ask Clinton for leniency

Sep 28, 09 2:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Roman Polanski is “shocked and dumbfounded” by the Swiss government’s decision to arrest him but is “in fighting mood” and won't be extradited easily, his lawyer said today. Diplomatic wrangling continued over Polanski’s fate, as the French and Polish foreign ministers said they had written to... More »

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Poland • France • Switzerland • Harvey Weinstein • Roman Polanski • child rape • Monica Bellucci • Fanny Ardant

 Polanski Victim: 'I'm Over It' 

Mom of three is sick and tired of sordid case

Sep 28, 09 5:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The woman Roman Polanski had sex with when she was 13 never wants to hear about the case again. "I have survived, indeed prevailed, against whatever harm Mr. Polanski may have caused me as a child," Samantha Geimer, 45, said early this year after filing court papers to... More »

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crime • France • Switzerland • sex • Roman Polanski • 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' • Samantha Geimer • statutory rape

 French, Swiss 
 Battle Over 
 Polanski 

Director's lawyer vows to fight extradition

Sep 28, 09 1:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The French and Swiss government bickered angrily over Roman Polanski yesterday as the film director's arrest strained diplomatic relations. France's culture minister said he was “stupefied” by the arrest, while President Nicolas Sarkozy called for a “rapid solution”—presumably one that involved letting Polanski return to France.... More »

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film • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Switzerland • extradition • Roman Polanski

Sarkozy Oversteps in Rancorous Trial With Foe

Howls as French president calls Villepin 'guilty' in TV interview

Sep 25, 09 5:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy may have crossed the line in the continuing trial of his political foe Dominique de Villepin, the former French prime minister accused of waging a smear campaign against him in 2004. During a TV interview in New York, Sarkozy called Villepin and his co-defendants "the guilty parties"... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • France • trial • Dominique de Villepin • Clearstream affair • forgery

Airbrushed Pics May Get French Health Warning

Lawmakers look to require label on digitally altered photos

Sep 22, 09 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Amid the uproar over fashion photos whose models are airbrushed to teeny-tiny perfection, French politicians are proposing a law that would require any such photos to include a health warning, Reuters reports. Digitally altered ads, press photos, campaign art, packaging, and art photography would have to include “Photograph retouched... More »

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fashion • France • photography • model • photograph • digital retouching • Jay-ZTV

 French Roust Migrant 'Jungle' 

Squatters' camp near Calais was home to hundreds of Afghans seeking asylum

Sep 22, 09 3:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - French riot police stormed in today to clear an immigrant camp known as "the Jungle," the Guardian reports. The camp in woodlands outside Calais was home to hundreds of asylum seekers living in squalid conditions. Most were men and boys from Afghanistan seeking to cross to Britain on... More »

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France • illegal immigration • immigrant • refugee • eviction

 Ex French Prez 
 Pens Steamy 
 Princess Novel 

Just how close were Diana and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing?

Sep 22, 09 2:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Did they or didn't they? That's what the French wonder now that Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has penned a steamy novel about a French president's affair with an "unhappy" English princess who could be Diana's doppelgänger, reports the Guardian. The pair consummate their love in The Princess and ... More »

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France • Princess Diana • Prince Charles • England • Camilla Parker Bowles • Valery Giscard d'Estaing

 France Telecom Sets Up Suicide Hotline for Workers

Chief vow end to 'infernal spiral' of 23 suicides

Sep 16, 09 4:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - France Telecom's chief executive has promised to do all he can to end a wave of suicides at the company, including establishing a suicide hotline, reports the BBC. The firm plans to halt employee relocations and train team leaders to spot signs of depression at the company, where 23 employees... More »

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suicide • France • stress • France Telecom

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