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Leaked reviews blast the latest Indy
If only Indy could use his whip on bad reviewers. Despite a military-like effort to keep 'Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull' under top-secret wraps until its Cannes opening, several underground reviews surfaced on the Internet this week, with one of them castigating the movie as 'the Indiana movie that you were dreading'.
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Jolie considering France for twins
London, May 16 : Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt will be welcoming their twins into the world on August 19 this year, and the couple are seriously considering having their babies in France, the native place of the actress' beloved late mother.
Big News Network.com |
France criticizes Myanmar for barring aid ship
Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert said the ship would be in international waters within sight of the devastated Irrawaddy Delta on Saturday, and he warned that the government's refusal to allow aid to be...
Examiner |
Civil servants and teachers in France go on strike
Strike Hundreds of thousands of French teachers and civil servants staged a one-day strike throughout the country Thursday to protest government plans to cut jobs in the public sector. While the union...
IRNA |
Penn brings Australian aid film to Cannes
A small flick went from refugee camp to red carpet as Sean Penn, backed by rock star Bono and film maker Michael Moore, brought an Australian aid worker's tsunami film to the Cannes Film Festival over...
ABC Australia |
Resurgent Rossi targets French GP triumph
LE MANS: Valentino Rossi believes his recent, desperately-needed victory in China could prove the perfect launchpad for a sixth world MotoGP title, on the run-up to tomorrow's French Grand Prix.
New Straits Times |
Mike Tyson basks in Cannes glory
, mounted the stage late on Friday after the screening at the world's biggest cinema showcase, flanked by director James Toback. "Jim, he just elicited all this stuff out of me, I don'...
Yahoo! News |
France angered by Burmese delays
France's ambassador to the UN has accused Burma's government of being on the verge of committing a crime against humanity by not accepting foreign aid. Jean-Maurice Ripert made the comment during a...
BBC |
Switzerland returns plundered Constable painting to Jewish family
G ENEVA, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - A Geneva art gallery will return a 19th century painting by British landscape artist John Constable to relatives of French Jews 65 years after it was stolen and auctioned...
The Tocqueville Connection |
Royal signals bid to lead French Socialists
P ARIS, May 17, 2008 (AFP) - Segolene Royal, the unsuccessful Socialist challenger in the French presidential elections in 2007, said Friday she would seek the party's leadership if its members wish h...
The Tocqueville Connection |
Rain ruins testing in France
Rain wrecked the final day of this week's Formula One test at the Paul Ricard circuit in France, underlined by the fact 13 seconds separated the 11 drivers on track. The ten teams spent the first two...
RTE |
Director defends Bobby Sands film at Cannes
The director of a powerful film about the final days of Bobby Sands says he has not made a hero of the IRA prisoner, whose death in a 1981 hunger strike made him one of the most prominent symbols of o...
ABC Australia |
Waltz Explodes at Cannes
A screenshot from "Waltz With Bashir" the animated documentary that began this year's Cannes Film Festival. (Cannes Film Festival)...
Newser |
France urges stronger UN action on Myanmar
U NITED NATIONS, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - The French envoy to the United Nations called on the world body Friday to take stronger action to persuade cyclone-hit Myanmar to open up to foreign assistance, w...
The Tocqueville Connection |
Cannes Competitors Can Yell
Reporting on IFC Films' acquisition of the U.S. film The Pleasure of Being Robbed at the Cannes Film Festival -- it is set to close the Directors' Fortnight section of the festival next week -- New Yo...
Showbiz Data |
A Cartoon At Cannes
A rather conventional computer-animated feature may seem like an unlikely choice for inclusion in the program of the Cannes Film Festival, but when it is voiced by the likes of Angelina Jolie, Jack Bl...
Showbiz Data |
French arrest 10 in connection with terror probe
Pakistan protests suspected US missile strike The senior official described the arrests as "preventative" because the funds thought to have been collected were not known to have been used to carry out...
Examiner |
Harrison Ford in Cannes with umbrella, no fedora
' famed Carlton Hotel was Friday turned into a giant gate to an Indiana Jones movie. Decorated with skulls, snakes and Aztec-looking skulls, the portico of the celebrated early 20th-century Riv...
Yahoo! News |
Protest still echoes in streets of Paris
Clashes with riot police in Paris soon escalated into nationwide unrest. At the crossroads of the Boulevard St-Germain-des-Pres and the Boulevard Saint-Michel, no cobblestones are flying, just occasio...
New Zealand Herald |
Will Cannes be a Temple of Doom for
CANNES, France - Indiana Jones doesn't give up his secrets lightly, and neither does the man pulling his strings.Director Steven Spielberg has tried to keep chapter four of the archaeologist's big-scr...
MSNBC |
Vernon Paris - Assaulted boxer moves to Florida
Paris, 20, is recovering at his mother's house in Tallahassee from stab wounds that punctured a lung and kidney in an altercation in Detroit on May 4. In July 2006, Paris was shot twice in the back an...
Max Boxing |
French boys record rape on mobile phone -- judicial source
Close this PARIS -- Two boys have been charged in France for the rape of a 10-year-old girl that they recorded on video using a mobile phone and showed to friends at their Paris area school, a judicia...
Inquirer |
Ten Detained In Europe For Alleged Ties To Islamic Extremists
P ARIS, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - Police in France, Germany and the Netherlands arrested on Friday 10 people suspected of providing funding to Islamic extremists in Uzbekistan, officials said.  &#160...
The Tocqueville Connection |
Michalak back in Toulouse
Chris Rattue: The loose forward battle France first five-eighths Frederic Michalak is returning to Toulouse after spending a season with the Sharks. The 25-year-old joined the Sharks in South Africa f...
New Zealand Herald |
Sarkozy hits back at EU over deficit figures
D AMMARIE-LES-LYS, France, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - President Nicolas Sarkozy told the European Commission on Friday to review its figures after Brussels said it would prepare a formal warning to Paris ov...
The Tocqueville Connection |
French economy minister sceptical about single eurozone seat at IMF
The European Commission, like Juncker, has long supported the idea of a single representation for the eurozone in major international fora such as the IMF and Group of Seven.
The Tocqueville Connection |
Paris Las Vegas hosts
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- It's an all-original, all-singing, all-dancing musical journey across America when Las Vegas-based HIV/AIDS charity Golden Rainbow presents its 22nd annual "R...
Casino City Times |
return of one of Cannes favourite sons
' favourite film-makers, Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan, returned to the film festival offering a breather from hard-hitting movies on social themes with a highly personal family drama.
Yahoo! News |
Alstom declares itself civil party in French-Swiss bribery probe
PARIS (Thomson Financial) - French engineering firm Alstom said it has declared itself a civil party in the ongoing probe by Swiss and French authorities into bribery claims. Alstom said the probe '(r...
Congoo |
French Parliamentarian Pledges Not To Hinder Turkey
ANKARA - A French parliamentarian pledged that his country would not block Turkey`s accession talks with the European Union when France assumes the Union`s rotating term presidency. "We have no intent...
Turkish Press |
Uzbek Islamists active in lawless Afghan regions
P ARIS, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - French police on Friday detained eight people on suspicion of funding Islamist groups from Uzbekistan, which have a history of activism in the mountainous border region be...
The Tocqueville Connection |
French fishermen block ports to protest fuel costs
The government has announced a three-year 310 million euros (480 million dollars) aid package to help the fishermen cushion the blow from fuel costs after several French ports were blocked during prot...
The Tocqueville Connection |
British Energy Says Has Received Several Offers For Company
Recent British press reports have said state-owned French power company EDF had submitted an offer for British Energy and bought land near two existing nuclear sites in England and Wales.
The Tocqueville Connection |
Nigerian president to visit France in June
A BUJA, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua will make an official visit to France on June 12 during which he hopes to clinch an "energy partnership", he told AFP in an interview. &...
The Tocqueville Connection |
Angelina Jolie, pregnant with twins, stays cool at Cannes
CANNES, France -- Angelina Jolie, pregnant with twins, has some secrets for staying serene at the Cannes Film Festival: get her partner, Brad Pitt, to baby-sit, and wear comfy shoes on the red carpet....
Inquirer |
France to transfer Rwanda genocide suspect to war crimes court
Ntawukuriryayo, 65, was arrested in October in Carcassonne, southwest France, where he had been living since 1999, and will be the first Rwandan genocide suspect to be transferred from France to the I...
The Tocqueville Connection |
10 arrested in France, Germany and the Netherlands in connection with terror probe
Authorities in France, Germany and the Netherlands on Friday detained at least 10 people suspected of helping to fund al-Qaida-linked militants with roots in Uzbekistan, officials said. One suspect w...
International Herald Tribune |
Silvestre hints at Bordeaux switch
Manchester United defender Mikael Silvestre admits he could be tempted by a move to Bordeaux, provided the French club can meet his salary demands. Les Girondins coach Laurent Blanc has declared his...
Ananova |
Cannes balances glamor with `Blindness
CANNES, France — Fernando Meirelles did boys with guns in "City of God" and murderous corporations in "The Constant Gardener." With "Blindness," the opening night entry at the Cannes Film Festiv...
The Seattle Times |
Climate change threatens French truffle
Meteo France forecasts that by the end of the century Toulouse, on the southern fringes of France's truffle growing region, will see temperatures exceed 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) on average b...
Reuters |
Quaint French boardrooms get shake-up
May 16, 2008 By Anne-Sylvaine Chassany Paris - Jean-Bernard Lafonta broke a tacit rule of French business etiquette last year when his firm amassed shares of Saint-Gobain, the nation's oldest company,...
Business Report |
Renault global sales up 8.3 percent in April
P ARIS, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - French automaker Renault said on Friday its global unit sales rose 8.3 percent from a year earlier to 228,146 vehicles in April.     Renault has set a...
The Tocqueville Connection |
French great Zidane to play Sydney exhibition soccer match
French football legend Zinedine Zidane, seen here, will play an exhibition match in Sydney next month alongside a number of teammates from his 1998 World Cup winning side...
Soccer Way |
France singles out Turkey
ISTANBUL - Turkish Daily NewsA French parliamentary commission altered an amendment to the country's constitution that would have spared Turkey facing a mandatory referendum regarding its prospective ...
Turkish Daily News |
France Telecom brings Apple
) to bring the popular iPhone to new countries including Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and Orange's African markets later ...
Market Watch |
Cannes takes ona savage tone...
CANNES: Fernando Meirelles did boys with guns in City of God and murderous corporations in The Constant Gardener. With Blindness, the opening-night entry at the Cannes Film Festival, the Brazilian dir...
Gulf Daily News |
French arrest six suspected of financing group tied to al-Qaeda
Paris - Agents of the French domestic intelligence service DST on Friday arrested six people suspected of helping to finance a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda, France Info radio reported. The six s...
Earth Times |
French premier wants Formula 1 race at Disneyland Paris
Paris - With the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours ending after this year's race, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon is working to have it replaced with a Formula One race at Disneyland Paris, the d...
Earth Times |
French workers strike in protest of job cuts
PARIS — Teachers, postal workers and other public servants staged a one-day strike and tens of thousands marched through French cities Thursday, a widespread protest against President Nicolas Sa...
The Seattle Times |
Actress Angelina Jolie Announces She
Pregnant Angelina with Brad Everybody has babies, don't they? I mean it happens all the time.But whenever celebrities have little ones, now that's big news for some people. Don't ask me why, I onl...
Sky News |
Real live royalty comes to Cannes
May 16, 2008 Cannes, France - Look out Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Sharon Stone and the rest of the Hollywood royalty in Cannes. A real princess has arrived to promote a film that she wrote and ...
Tonight |
animated documentary recounts war horrors
CANNES, France — It's an animated documentary - which is perhaps a contradiction in terms. Israeli director Ari Folman thought the unusual technique was the only way to tell his story of recove...
The Seattle Times |
an unorthodox president of Cannes jury
CANNES, France — Sean Penn may be president of the Cannes Film Festival jury - but don't expect any buttoned-up presidential behavior from the Hollywood rebel. During a news conference on openi...
The Seattle Times |
Goa netas going to Cannes
PANAJI: Once again, a team made up mostly of politicians from Goa will be leaving for the Cannes film festival. According to information from the Entertainment Society of Goa, which organises the I...
Times of India |
Animated Panda gives Cannes a kick
Who needs movie superheroes when audiences can rely on a panda named Po with a sick kung fu kick? Not Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jack Black or any of the stars of Kung Fu Panda. The computerised...
Stuff |
Fur flies at film fest as Cannes premieres `Kung Fu Panda,
CANNES: Fur might be a politically incorrect fashion statement on the red carpet at the world's most- prestigious film festival. Not when you're the star of a movie called "Kung Fu Panda," though.
KeralaNext |
Staying Cool At Cannes Key For Jolie
CANNES, France -- Angelina Jolie, pregnant with twins, has some secrets for staying serene at the Cannes Film Festival: get her partner, Brad Pitt, to baby-sit, and wear comfy shoes on the red carpet....
Local 10 |
France to reduce external military deployment capabilities
France's new defense policy will see the capacity of deployment of French soldiers in external operation theaters decreased significantly, French Defense Minister Herve Morin has said. "Who can b...
People's Daily |
Reality bites in Cannes
The tragedies of the real world - the quake that rocked China and the cyclone that devastated Myanmar - invaded the fantasy world of movies as the Cannes film festival moved into top gear yesterday. T...
7 Days |
French Bank to Sell Billions in Assets to Deal With Subprime Losses
French banking giant Credit Agricole says it will sell billions of dollars in assets to deal with subprime losses by its investment arm. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports the new financial blow adds to ...
VOA |
France Refuses Asylum to Comoros Rebel
The French government has decided not to offer asylum to Comoros rebel-leader Mohamed Bacar - but has also rejected sending him back to the Comoros for fear of persecution. Lisa Bryant has more on the...
VOA |
International Herald Tribune editor to join Associated Press
Oreskes became editorial chief at the Herald Tribune in May 2005 after holding a list of jobs at the New York Times, including deputy managing editor.
The Tocqueville Connection |
Dior CEO named head of German fashion house Boss
My goal is to bring more of an international presence to the brand, in the large and growing markets of Asia and America, Lahrs, head of Christian Dior Couture since the end of 2003, said in the state...
The Tocqueville Connection |
Vivendi Q1 Profits Fall 5.6 Percent; Universal Music Digital Up 33 Percent
Entertainment and telecom conglomerate Vivendi (EPA: VIV) said its Q1 EBITA dropped 5.6 percent to $1.86 billion (?1.203 billion) from $1.91 billion last year. Although not exactly an indication of wh...
Congoo |
Rail, Air France unions call for May 22 strike to protest pensions reform
PARIS (Thomson Financial) - French rail unions have joined their counterparts at Air France in calling for a strike on May 22 as part of a protest against government plans for pensions reform, Agence ...
Congoo |
France Says Growth Shows Reforms On Track
P ARIS, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - France's right-wing government beamed and proclaimed its reforms were working after new data on Thursday showed better-than-expected growth in 2007 and an economic pickup ...
The Tocqueville Connection |
French bill on journalist sources stirs controversy
P ARIS, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - The French government on Thursday introduced a bill that recognizes a journalist's right to protect sources while stating there may be special cases when reporters will ha...
The Tocqueville Connection |
Child obesity rates level off in France
France is the first European Union country to report a leveling off of childhood obesity rates, suggesting that healthier diet programs and a ban on vending machines in schools were paying off, resear...
International Herald Tribune |
Uribe urges FARC to free hostages including Betancourt
B OGOTA, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Thursday urged Marxist FARC rebels to free Franco-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages ahead of am EU-Latin Ameri...
The Tocqueville Connection |
Elliott looking forward to French test
Ireland's Red Bull MotoGP rookie Josh Elliott is looking forward to the Alice Grand Prix de France on 15/16 May with great anticipation. It will be Josh's first time at the famous Le Mans Bugatti cir...
RTE |
Sarkozy tested by mass strike over public sector cuts
P ARIS, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - President Nicolas Sarkozy faced a new test of his resolve to streamline France's public sector as hundreds of thousands of teachers and civil servants went on strike Thurs...
The Tocqueville Connection |
Natural disasters grab headlines in Cannes
Cannes - The recent series of global natural disasters that have left thousands dead have been playing both onscreen and off-screen roles at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Apart from the festival's...
Earth Times |
Cannes has a big place in Aishwarya Rai
CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival has a big place in Aishwarya Rai's heart. The Bollywood actress' first time at Cannes was to promote the lavish love story "Devdas" in 2002. The "Bride...
The Seattle Times |
French Banks Hit Again By Subprime Losses, Tighten Belts
P ARIS, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - French banks Credit Agricole and Natixis reported more heavy losses on Thursday as financial market turmoil mauled their business, forcing them to cut costs and raise cash...
The Tocqueville Connection |
Vincent Cassel as France
CANNES : The Cannes opening weekend is crucial to a festival designed to woo the world. The focus is not so much on what's showing in the Grand Théâtre Lumière, but on the parade o...
International Herald Tribune |
Asian autos challenge French dominance in Moroccan market
In the same interview, the association president criticised a 32 percent import tax imposed on Asian autos - - given an accord with the European Union will see car import duties fall to zero percent i...
The Tocqueville Connection |
Israeli film at Cannes explores 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre
A daring new animated documentary follows Israeli director Ari Folman as he tries to piece together memories of the 1982 massacre of Palestinians in Beirut's Sabra and Shatila camps.Folman was a soldi...
Haaretz |
German economy gets off to flying start in 2008
Data since the beginning of the year have suggested that the German economy was holding up surprisingly well against the strong euro, rising energy and food prices and a slowing of the US economy.
The Tocqueville Connection |
French bank Natixis reports profit slump on another subprime hit
The collapse of the US subprime or higher risk home loan market cost Natixis 439 million euros in the first quarter after 1.39 billion euros in the last three months of 2007.
The Tocqueville Connection |
Credit Agricole announces profits slump on new writedowns
P ARIS, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - French bank Credit Agricole reported on Thursday that first-quarter net profit had fallen by two thirds to 892 million euros (1.32 billion dollars) on further writedowns. ...
The Tocqueville Connection |
