And so we have the season 13 premiere of Law and Order: SVU: The head of the International Monetary Fund was removed from a Paris-bound flight in New York minutes before takeoff Saturday afternoon and was arrested in connection with a sexual assault on a...
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Gbago gone: Forces of president-elect Alassane Ouattara arrested outoing President Laurent Gbagbo at his residence in Abidjan on Monday, after an assault on the compound that involved French and U.N..
I have a short article up at World Politics Review about the sale of the French Mistrals to Russia: France's decision to negotiate the sale of four Mistral-class Amphibious Transport.
Like any good traitorous socialist lefty, I am supposed to treat European culture and politics as decidedly superior to the American alternative. And I often do! But on the subject of libel laws, it seems quite clear to me that Americans have a much more...
I've always found the approach to religious neutrality employed by (amongst many other countries) France, which includes a ban on religious headscarves in public schools, to be deeply misguided and.
The Russian Navy is buying a French Mistral class amphibious assault ship. Exciting.
France has acknowledged that it will no longer deploy nuclear weapons on board the Charles De Gaulle, at least under normal circumstances:France no longer deploys nuclear weapons on its aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle under normal circumstances but stores the weapons on land, according to...
Jacques Chirac, apparently:The former first lady turns to deliver her husband a withering look, before continuing with her speech.In a book in 2001, Mrs Chirac spoke about the difficulties of.
...to go after a fraudulent religion just because it comes from the United States:The Church of Scientology's French branch went on trial on Monday on charges of organised fraud, in.
In the fabulous piracy-oriented South Park of two weeks ago, a French yacht surrenders to Fatbeard the Pirate without a shot being fired. When someone brings the issue up at the UN, a bureaucrat explains "Being French, they surrendered immediately." This brought some thoughts of...
Joe Buff has an idea: The two boomers may have been practicing sub-on-sub combat maneuvers, including the classic close-trail so well dramatized in "Hunt for Red October." Would two boomers.
The Dantons were the last pre-dreadnoughts constructed by the French Navy. They were also the only pre-dreadnoughts to employ turbines, and as far as I know the only 20th century.