Our crack panel tackles bankers’ bonuses, the French hostage drama in West Africa, France’s loss of influence in the face of Russia, Beppe Grillo’s antics in Italy and the papal succession. Will the Vatican package a new pope just like Beaujolais Nouveau markets itself – every year it’s supposed to be different, but every year it tastes the same?
Lebanon’s Hezbollah party is making headlines as the EU mulls whether to add the group to its list of terrorist entities. This comes after Bulgaria pointed the finger at Hezbollah for a bombing that killed 5 Israelis there last summer. For more on this issue, Marc Perelman speaks to Matthew Levitt, a former counterterrorism official with the FBI and US Treasury Department and an expert on Hezbollah.
The French government was quick to blame Boko Haram, the hostage takers say they’re Boko Haram, but are they really Boko Haram? It seems that as one radical Islamist group sits down for negotiations, new spin-off movements pop up.
The French government was quick to blame Boko Haram, the hostage takers say they’re Boko Haram, but are they really Boko Haram? It seems that as one radical Islamist group sits down for negotiations, new spin-off movements pop up.
Heavy gunfire was reported in the northern Malian city of Gao early on Thursday as the army closed in on a group of remaining Islamist rebels holed up in the mayor’s office.
A French couple and their four young children were kidnapped in northern Cameroon on Tuesday. France 24 takes a look at the fast growing list of French nationals who have gone missing in Africa in recent years.
France now has the most nationals held hostage in the world, following the kidnapping of an entire French family holidaying in Cameroon on Tuesday. The number of French citizens held in Africa now stands at 15.
The horsemeat scandal hits the headlines for the second day running, with new fears over drugs found in horse carcasses. François Hollande's trip to India is played down by left-wing daily Libération, while Le Figaro hails it as an important rendez-vous for trade relations between the two countries. And Interior Minister Manuel Valls highlights his concerns for France's national security, in an exclusive interview with Le Parisien.
A Kashmiri man convicted of plotting the deadly 2001 attack on India’s Parliament was hanged on Saturday, officials said. The news sparked protests in Indian Kashmir, where several groups claim the man did not get a fair trial.
Bulgarian investigators said Tuesday that the Shiite militant group Hezbollah was behind the bombing of a bus last July in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian driver. Hezbollah has denied involvement in the attack.
