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Emmanuel Macron embroiled in global Uber scandal

Emmanuel Macron went to extraordinary lengths to support Uber’s lobbying campaign to help it disrupt France’s closed-shop taxi industry, even telling the tech company he had brokered a secret “deal” with its opponents in the French cabinet. Leaked files including text message exchanges between Uber executives and Macron reveal how the cab-hailing business identified him […]

Turkey coordinates with World Bank, Germany, France for green, clean policies, fund

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Turkey had signed a memorandum of understanding under which it will receive loans worth $3.2 billion to help it meet clean energy goals set out in the Paris climate accord. Sources familiar with the plan said earlier this month that Turkey was to receive the loans under a planned […]

Bella Hadid ready for Virgil Abloh‘s Off-White fashion show

US-Palestinian model Bella Hadid hit the runway at designer Virgil Abloh‘s Off-White fashion show in Paris on Sunday. The 24-year-old took two turns down the catwalk, first in a royal blue mini dress with matching knee-high boots and then in a floor-length gown in the same electric shade, complete with an angular bodice and chunky […]

France helping Lebanese military with planned international meeting

France will convene a virtual meeting of countries on June 17 to drum up support for the Lebanese army as it seeks to weather an economic crisis that has put the military on the verge of collapse, France's armed forces ministry said on Tuesday. Paris, which has led aid efforts to its former colony, has […]

Egypt to get 30 fighterjets from France in latest arms deal

Egypt has signed a contract with France to buy 30 Rafale fighter jets, its defense ministry said in a statement early on Tuesday, in a deal that investigative website Disclose said on Monday was worth 3.75 billion euro ($4.5 billion). Egypt’s defense ministry said the deal would be financed through a loan to be re-paid […]

French planning eco-friendly cemetery

An 'eco-friendly' cemetery space may open near Paris in September. The 'recollection and burial space' that respects the environment may come up at Ivry in the Val-de-Marne department, just outside Paris, Italian news agency ANSAmed reported on Thursday. The move is in response to the increasing pubic demand for 'eco-friendly funerals,' said the report quoting […]

Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam jailed in Belgium

Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect from the 2015 Paris attacks, has been jailed for 20 years in Belgium over a gunfight that led to his arrest. Abdeslam, 28, and co-defendant Sofien Ayari were both convicted of terror-related charges of attempted murder. Ayari, 24, was also given a 20-year sentence. Both fired on officers who […]

French 'Daesh executioner' Maxime Hauchard killed: sources

Maxime Hauchard, a French terrorist sought by French and US authorities since emerging in a Daesh execution video in Syria, has been killed, sources close to the inquiry told AFP on Thursday. "The date and circumstances of his death aren't yet known, but it appears he died in the summer of 2017," one of the […]

Markets suffer Trump slump on trade war fears

Donald Trump's controversial decision to slap tariffs on steel and aluminium imports sent world stock markets slumping on Friday as the move fuelled fresh fears of a global trade war, dealers said. Traders, already on edge over worries about rising US interest rates, followed Wall Street sharply lower after the president imposed levies on the […]

Vehicle slams into French troops in Paris suburb

French troops were struck by a vehicle outside a barracks in suburban Paris on Wednesday in an apparent attack that left six wounded, including two seriously, according to French police. Police said in a tweet that an operation was underway and that they were trying to track down the vehicle and driver involved in the […]

Israel says 'no' to Middle East peace conference in Paris

By Luke Baker for Reuters| Israel on Monday formally rejected France's invitation to take part in a Middle East peace conference in Paris later this year, saying it was a distraction from the goal of direct negotiations with the Palestinians. At a meeting in Jerusalem with Israel's acting national security adviser and Prime Minister Benjamin […]

How the Brussels attacks could destabilize Europe

By Peter Apps for REUTERS -- In many ways, the attacks in Brussels today had a sick air of inevitability. Ever since the Paris attacks on November 13, the Belgian capital has been seen as the likely next target. What happened on Tuesday clearly shows the limits of Belgium’s much-criticized security and surveillance systems. But […]

Historian Reflects on Mid East Which 'France, UK Built and Destroyed'

The Levant News -- In a recent op-ed for Le Huffington Post, journalist and historian Dimitri Casali reflected on France's historical role in creating the crisis in the Middle East, commenting on the 'political autism' of contemporary Western leaders in their attempts to destroy the region's secular regimes. Instead of helping Russia to crash Islamic […]

10 Best Museums List — Trip Advisor

The Levant- -Twenty-five winners were selected from among 591 museums worldwide, TripAdvisor said. The Metropolitan Museum in New York City took first place. Other museums in the top 10 are the Orsay in Paris, Art Institute of Chicago, the Prado of Madrid, the Louvre in Paris, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the National […]

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