MEDIAWATCH FRANCE, Thurs, 9/2/2012: Newsrooms around Paris are on edge waiting for Nicolas Sarkozy's announcement that he's running for re-election. We take a look at some of the buzz. Also, a French fraudster and a tweeting bishop.
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Some of the French papers are trying to see the bright side after France's downgrade by S&P - but there's still plenty of bad news, with crime and unemployment figures out today. There are champagne corks popping too though - for "The Artist" at the Golden Globes.
A court in Oslo on Friday ordered a new psychiatric assessment of Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to killing 77 people in a July bomb attack and subsequent shooting spree. An earlier report found Breivik to be criminally insane.
The Nigerian Red Cross says five people died in an attack on a mosque and a school in Benin City in Nigeria's mainly Christian south on Tuesday. Muslim-majority northern Nigeria has seen a spate of attacks on churches in recent weeks.
A 1939 oil painting by Pablo Picasso was stolen from the National Gallery in Athens Monday along with two other works. Spanish-born Picasso donated "Woman's Head" to Greece in 1949 to recognise the country's resistance to Nazi Germany.
La Croix reports most of the French feel presidential candidates are not addressing issues people are most concerned about: jobs, the cost of living and health care. That - and what the candidates are doing during their winter break - is the focus for Thursday 29th December 2011.
A French court has sentenced Carlos Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, a Marxist militant known as Carlos the Jackal, to a life prison term for his role in four bomb attacks in France that killed 11 people nearly three decades ago.
The death toll from an attack in the Belgian city of Liège rose to five on Wednesday after a woman died overnight from her injuries. Nordine Amrani killed three people and wounded 125 others on Tuesday before killing himself.
The body of a woman in her forties was found Wednesday at the home of Nordine Amrani, the gunman who killed four people and injured more than 100 others before killing himself in the Belgian city of Liège on Tuesday.
