First, in Libya, we take a look at the TV channel that continues to be ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi’s mouthpiece. Next, France and Morocco join forces and get to work on a high-speed rail network built with French know-how. Finally, the Tangiers international jazz festival in Morocco has become the darling of jazz enthusiasts around the world.
First, Beijing tells America and Europe to gets its fiscal houses in order and end their addiction to credit. Next, China's high-speed rail ambition grinds to a halt following a deadly accident. Finally, we visit one Chinese island that takes those with a taste for the high-life a step beyond paradise.
The prospect of travelling from Paris to Barcelona by train in less than five hours is finally within reach, after a stretch of high-speed rail between France and Spain was opened on Sunday.
France’s national rail company has been ordered to compensate one of its travellers and his law firm employers approximately 5,000 euros after he missed his train. A track switch error is at the heart of this unusual payout.
With an eye on lucrative contracts in the United States, France's national railway company SNCF has publicly expressed regret for its role in deporting tens of thousands of Jews to extermination camps during World War II.
FRENCH PRESS REVIEW: A YouTube video circulating online claims that the recent attack on Silvio Berlusconi was faked in order to give the Italian Prime Minister a boost in the polls.
French Press Review: Almost all of the national papers in France lead with the break-down of rail services locally, nationally and internationally in the past few days.