Plans to build a mosque in New York near the sight of the September 11th attacks continue to divide public opinion. Republicans are voicing their outrage at open signs of Islam so close to Ground Zero.
Ahead of a visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the US, President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor General James L. Jones tells FRANCE 24 that the relationship between the two men is strong.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon’s cautious reaction to the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has underlined a crucial question: What can the international community do to respond to the crisis in Iran? France 24 correspondents report.
In the last few years China has become a major UN troop contributor, lending a helping hand from Haiti to Darfur. For a country that used to regard United Nations operations as interfering with state sovereignty, it is a sea change in outlook.
In the North Kivu refugee camp of Mugunga II, civilians complain of insufficient food and medicine. Aid agencies say they are scrambling to provide food and care to the 200,000 people crammed into camps around Goma, near the Rwandan border.
Philippe BOLOPION 
