"To worry about fundamentalist Islam is to misunderstand the Arab world"

FRENCH PAPERS, Thurs, 3/2/2011: The spectre of fundamentalist Islam - should it worry us? The front page of right-leaning news weekly Le Point suggests we should be concerned. Libération's editorial takes quite the opposite approach saying that to worry about fundamentalist islam "is to misunderstand the Arab world". The turmoil in Cairo last night makes all most of France's front pages this morning.

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21/01/2010 - IN THE PAPERS

Interview with Haitian President in Le Monde

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Number of orphans in Haiti may have doubled since earthquake

The Independent leads with a photo of just “one in a million” of Haiti’s orphans. Here is the international press review of the day.

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Number of orphans in Haiti may have doubled

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“Can the US maintain a robust role in Haiti?”

INTERNATIONAL PRESS REVIEW (Tuesday, 19th January 2010): The US has a history of either political domination or neglect in its backyard, says the International Herald Tribune. Washington is now mulling over its role in the Haiti crisis.

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Haitian writers pay tribute to their homeland in Libération

FRENCH PRESS REVIEW (Tuesday, 19th January 2010): Writers express their angers and their hopes in an 8-page supplement in Libération this morning, illustrated by painters from Port-au-Prince

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