The French papers are worrying about the security of the presidential candidates this morning after a woman managed to cover François Hollande in flour yesterday. We're also looking at the Bettencourt saga, and fraudulent marriages.
Another nuclear scientist is killed in Iran and Tehran points the finger at Israel and the CIA. Meanwhile, Israel introduces a stringent new law to crack down on illegal immigration. Finally, we take a look at the film “Beirut Hotel”, a tale of romance set against Lebanon's tense partisan background. As a result, it has been censored and banned by authorities.
Despite the introduction of new legislation, known as the "anti-infiltration bill", which can send those who enter Israel illegally to prison for up to three years, authorities are struggling to keep the flow of immigrants in check. Most of Israel's African immigrants remain in limbo and are unable to work because of the documents they are given. Our Middle East correspondent Gallagher Fenwick reports.
French Interior Minister Claude Guéant has revised his controversial clampdown on international work visas after a meeting with education groups. Critics called the initial move a ploy to appeal to the far right ahead of the forthcoming presidential elections this year. But some fear the damage has already been done, since many young students have had to return to their native countries after graduation.
France is making it harder for foreigners to seek French citizenship as of this January. Candidates will now be tested on French culture and history, as well as their language skills. They will also be required to sign a new charter adhering to French principles. Melissa Bell discusses this sensitive issue with Eric Fassin, Sociology professor at Paris’s Ecole Normale Supérieure.
France will be making it harder for foreigners to seek French citizenship as of January. Critics say the new requirements, which include tough language tests and allegiance to “French values”, are an electoral ploy that panders to the far right.
The crew of a people-smuggling operation that met with disaster off the Indonesian coast late on Saturday fled the scene with life jackets and allowed hundreds to drown, survivors have told the press.
Rescuers searched for hundreds of asylum seekers Sunday after their overloaded wooden ship, en route to Australia, sank off the Indonesian island of Java overnight, leaving survivors clinging to the wreckage for hours in strong seas.
In the run-up to France’s presidential election, have tighter immigration quotas gone too far? François Picard’s panel explains how foreign graduate students have been singled out for deportation.
In the run-up to France’s presidential election, have tighter immigration quotas gone too far? François Picard’s panel explains how foreign graduate students have been singled out for deportation.
