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France 24 journalists review highlights from the world's papers.
By Nadia CHARBIT (text)

 

Le Figaro (France)
Strikes, demonstrations, what next ?
 
Following yesterday’s strike, French national dailies are missing from news stands today… but on the Internet the papers are all focusing on the demonstrations.
 
The right wing daily gives the half-empty glass version of the day’s events: Le Figaro notes that there were more people in the demos but fewer strikers than on January 29.
 
 
Libération (France)
Negociate
 
While the Figaro downplays the strike, one left-wing daily has an answer to that question of “what next”? In its editorial, Libération describes the rally as “massive” and warns the government that it would be a major fault if it were to play deaf to a call for help that most of the population approves. The risk is of a social fracture, it says.
 
 
The Advertiser (Australia)
 
Today many papers have two “monsters” in their pages, to the point that it can get confusing: underneath the headline on the Fritzl case is the picture of another disheveled man…That of Charles Manson, the cult leader who hadn’t been seen since he was sentenced 40 years ago for the gruesome murder of 6 people including actress Sharon Tate in LA in 1969.
 
 
Het Belang Van Limburg (Belgium)
 
The new picture was released by California correction officials. Apart from the Swastika engraved into his forehead, there isn’t much left of the man who to this day enjoys a bizarre cult following…‘fans’ are currently asking for his release.
 
 
Azzaman (London-based Iraqi daily)
 
This week it’s been 6 years since the US invaded Iraq, and one lesser known community is in the spotlight: the Mandean community who revere John the Baptist rather than Jesus.
 
Today is their most important festival, and their religious chiefs are asking for help and protection from the government after a number of Fatwas were published against them on the Internet. As a result of these threats of violence, the community has been leaving Iraq en masse: from a total of 35,000 Mandeans in Iraq in 2003, there are now less than 8,000 left.
 
 
Ettela'at (Iran)
 
Tehran’s most popular daily tells readers all about the Norouz festivities in its international pages (also published in English). Celebrated by Indians, Kurds, Afghans and Iranians, this isn’t a Muslim celebration, but it is the most important in the country. The article gives a glimpse of traditional events and recipes - all ingredients must begin with the letter S like the apple you can see on the cover: that’s Sib in Persian.
 
 
The Guardian (UK)
 
A quaint 4-page special, complete with illustrations of lilies of the valley, a two-spot ladybird and a cuckoo… The daily waxes lyrical about the joys of spring and suggest we listen to the dawn chorus and go for a walk in a bluebell wood… But as we ARE still in a crisis, here are a couple of “free meals” spring offers us: from wild garlic to stinging nettles and hawthorn, spring really is good news!
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