FRANCE:  Two Years After Riots, Little Has Changed
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CLICHY-SOUS-BOUS, Sep 24 (IPS) - The community in this Paris suburb is waiting  keenly for transformation promised by France's new  government.
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Though the climax of Mardi Gras is still to come, official data so far from the second celebration since Hurricane Katrina show a city on the rebound.
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For a country that had seemed on the verge of ending 16 years of chaos, violence is the new status quo.
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The French national team went all the way to the World Cup final again in 2006, but a shooting outside a Paris stadium has forced a reckoning with the violent racism of some of its fans
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Racism and violence have clouded Paris' premier soccer team for 20 years, but France's leaders are determined to stomp it out after a shooting death outraged the nation and exposed the long-ignored problem.
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France knew no parties and no religious controversy, only republicans and patriots. As in times of war, this otherwise highly divided nation, with its many social, ethnic and religious
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France's feisty, unconventional junior minister for urban affairs, Fadela Amara, unveiled proposals Tuesday for addressing the country's troubled suburban housing projects, which erupted in riots in 2005. The proposals go to President Nicolas Sarkozy, who will announce a grand "Marshall Plan" for the suburbs Feb. 8.
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Two years after Katrina, prominent New Orleanians give their thoughts on rebuilding and recovery
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The smoldering civil war in Ivory Coast - a two-year, on-again off-again conflict between the government and northern rebels
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The flashpoint of France's 2005 riots, this long-neglected neighborhood of graffiti-strewn housing projects and the poor, immigrant families they house welcomed a major visitor Tuesday: Segolene Royal, who could be France's next president.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged Friday to send thousands of extra police and more than $700 million in aid to neglected, heavily immigrant neighborhoods that exploded in riots in 2005 and 2006.
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Amid all the problems, two years after Katrina there are some positive signs of economic recovery
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The French economy is expected to grow 2.1 percent this year, but will limp through the first half of 2005 at a 1.4 percent pace that threatens the official full-year target of 2.5 percent, the national statistics office INSEE said.
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The recovery of New Orleans slowly  drags on two years after Hurricane Katrina but one thing back  in full swing since the killer storm is crime, particularly  murders.
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NEW YORK  - Two years after Hurricane Katrina forever changed the Gulf Coast, its echoes still reverberate throughout TV journalism.
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No crowds of well-wishers massed Thursday outside the Mukata, the mostly ruined compound where Yasser Arafat has been confined for the past two years.
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PARIS, Dec 14 (IPS) - Early one afternoon nearly four years ago,  journalist Guy-AndrÃ© Kieffer was thrust into a waiting car by  several armed men in a supermarket parking lot in Abidjan. He has  not been seen since.