PARIS: The European Union is willing to check cargo on board ships heading to the Gaza Strip if Israel ends its blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory, France's Foreign Minister said Sunday. Bernard...
ZURICH (AFP) – The strengthening Swiss franc is starting to take its toll on exporters, who warn that the appreciation of the currency is eating into their earnings margin and threatening thousands of jobs. "Until the 1.40 (franc against the euro) barrier,...
* Watch exports rise 13 pct helped by Asian demand * Exports from Switzerland rise real 7 pct in May ZURICH, June 22 (Reuters) - Swiss exports rose in May, data showed on Tuesday, defying a rally by the franc against the euro and indicating that the Alpine state's...
The widow of the underwater explorer, Jacques Cousteau, wants the French government to mark the centenary of his birth by helping to refloat his celebrated ship, the Calypso. The former British minesweeper, now rusting in Brittany after a series of maritime, political...
Paris/London - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner proposed that the EU could step in and check the cargo on ships bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip in an attempt to lower tensions following an Israeli raid on aid ships last...
(AP) — The is willing to check cargo on board ships heading to the if ends its blockade of the -ruled territory, France's Foreign Minister said Sunday. Bernard Kouchner, who spoke after dinner with British...
Dozens of 'little ships' which took part in the Dunkirk evacuation 70 years ago are crossing the English Channel to mark its anniversary. Troops saved in Operation Dynamo have joined the flotilla that is re-enacting the evacuation when Britain called upon any possible...
By Harlyne Joku FRENCHNavy patrol ship La Moqueuse (meaning she who mocks) was on a two-day visit to PNG and docked at the Port Moresby harbour at the weekend. She sailed from the Pacific Islands French Territory of New Caledonia's Noumea to Australia's Townsville;...
A container of mixed oxide, or MOX, a blend of plutonium and reprocessed ur... A shipment of 15 tonnes of combustible MOX, a blend of plutonium and reprocessed uranium, left the Frenchport of Cherbourg on Thursday for Japan, French nucleargroup Areva said. The Pacific...
GREG KELLER Associated Press Writer= PARIS (AP) — Two searchships have set sail from Brazil to hunt for debris and flight and data recorders from an AirFrance jetliner that crashed in the Atlantic last year, killing 228 people, a French aviation official said Tuesday....
