LARNACA (Cyprus): Under the palm trees of Larnaca’s waterfront promenade, George Kyprou was staring out to sea and scratching his head.
Published19 Mar, 201312:01am
FRANCE'S sudden military intervention in its former colony Mali marks a crossroads. Until now, the Socialist president, Francois Hollande, who had positioned himself as an anti-warmongerer with the early withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, had been pla
Published14 Jan, 201309:02pm
PARIS, Jan 7: A weight-loss drug believed to have killed hundreds in France’s biggest ever pharmaceutical scandal has sparked fresh controversy as victims complain of delays in state compensation and a major
Published08 Jan, 201302:50am
PARIS: While there are those who fear that Friday will bring about the end of the world, presaged by the end of the ancient Mayan calendar, in the French village of Bugarach — the only place apparently set to escape the
Published21 Dec, 201202:57am
WHEN François Hollande became French president in May, he kept his old mobile phone number so old friends could still reach him to give their frank views. The first Socialist party president in 17 years may be
Published03 Nov, 201202:01am
SEATED on a red velvet banquettes in the Brasserie de la Poste in Montargis, a modest provincial town south of Paris, is the Shanghai-born doctor Peiwen Wang, an expert in Chinese tourists’ tastes in France.
Published19 Aug, 201212:00am
SINCE its revolution France has had a reputation for loving to hate the rich. But it has always boasted mega-wealthy business leaders, global brands, moneyed aristocratic families and designer luxury. Now it
Published07 Jul, 201210:01pm
IT is one of the most successful branding exercises in French politics, but François Hollande’s self-styled image as President Normal, Mr Normal and a Normal Guy is starting to grate on some French journalists, who have called for a moratorium on the word
Published08 Jun, 201212:00am
IF François Hollande has styled himself as Mr Normal — recently photographed buying fruit compote in a Paris supermarket and saying he would continue to do so after he’s elected “if the fridge is empty” — his partner, Valérie Trierweiler, could revolution
Published08 May, 201212:00am
PARIS: Fears of a renewed eurozone crisis and France’s spiralling public debt are overshadowing the presidential race, with the Socialist frontrunner Francois Hollande accusing Nicolas Sarkozy of trying to scare the markets to secure re-election
Published13 Apr, 201208:21pm
QUAINT, discreet and perfectly manicured, Marnes-la-Coquette has 1,700 residents, including scores of millionaires, who backed the right-wing President Nicolas Sarkozy in the last presidential election. Surrounded by parkland, the village nudges the leafy
Published07 Apr, 201211:01pm
NICOLAS Sarkozy has declared there are too many foreigners in France, deliberately using extreme-right rhetoric to regain ground in his difficult re-election battle.
Published08 Mar, 201210:01pm
PARIS: Nicolas Sarkozy formally declared on Wednesday night that he will run for a second term as president of France later this year.Sarkozy appeared live on the evening news of the private TV channel TF1 to kick off a difficult re-election battle, sayin
Published16 Feb, 201208:34pm
NEAR the rusting, abandoned steelworks perched on a hill overlooking the forlorn north-eastern town of Gandrange, trade unionists put up a gravestone inscribed: “Here lie the broken promises of Nicolas Sarkozy.”
Published13 Feb, 201212:00am
