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Paris Protests Cut Short Olympic Torch Relay

Tuesday 08 April 2008 By FRANCE 24 with wires Pro-Tibetan protesters succeeded in disrupting the Olympic torch relay in Paris, forcing officials to put the torch on a bus after a day of clashes that saw the flame extinguished three times. (Report : R. Thompsett) It was billed by the Chinese authorities as “the harmonious journey,” but the Paris leg of the 2008 Olympic torch relay Monday did not go according to script, with protests, arrests and scuffles between pro-Tibet demonstrators and security officials disrupting the flame’s passage through the French capital. Three times in the course of its 28-kilometer route through the City of Lights, the Olympic flame was extinguished by security officials and the torch was finally put on a bus for the final leg of the Paris relay. After four hours of a chaotic journey through the streets of Paris, Chinese officials finally called off the relay, with the torch r...
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Où Manger pour Moins de 10 Dollars à New York ?

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Par   Sylvia Guirand  de French Morning On le sait : vivre à New York coûte cher, très cher. Si les montant des loyers (et des cocktails) ne risque pas de baisser de si tôt, il existe pourtant un peu d’espoir du côté de la restauration. Tour d’horizon des restaurants où il est possible de manger pour moins de 10 dollars. Macbar Et si nous vous disions que nous avons trouvé le Saint Graal du mac and cheese… Une adresse de qualité avec un choix de plats à vous faire tourner la tête et un prix défiant toute concurrence ? Au Macbar, pour moins de 10$, vous pourrez déguster un déliceux plat de macaronis au fromage grillé à point, et personnalisé au homard, au bœuf ou aux champignons en fonction de votre envie.  Macbar  :   54 Prince St, New York Hotel Tortuga Au cœur d’East Village se trouve un petit joyau caché aux bonnes senteurs de guacamole et de tacos grillés… Son nom ? Hotel Tortuga. De l’extérieur, l’établissement ne paye pas d...
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Sarkozy Retooling After Setback at the Polls

By Katrin Bennhold of the International Herald Tribune Published: March 16, 2008 PARIS : President Nicolas Sarkozy plans to press ahead with reforms but tone down his flashy image in a bid to restore his popularity with low-income voters after his center-right party suffered a setback in local elections Sunday, officials close to his office said. The opposition Socialist Party and its allies won 49.5 percent of the vote in the final round of elections Sunday, compared with the 47.5 obtained by the president's Union for a Popular Movement and parties affiliated with it, according to a voting-day telephone poll by the CSA institute. Most of the 21 ministers who ran in municipal elections looked set to win and the president's camp also appeared on course to keep control of Marseille, France's second-biggest city, and one of the most closely watched races of the election. But the Socialists took several hotly contested urban fiefs from the right, including Toulouse and Strasbo...
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