France Cautious on Claim for Jewish Center Attack
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A previously unknown Islamic militant group said on Monday it set fire to a Jewish soup kitchen in Paris, but French investigators treated the claim with caution.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier vows to fight  mounting anti-Semitism in his country while visiting Israel.
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France's ambassador to Israel  criticized Israelis on Thursday for what he called "anti-French  neurosis," drawing a rebuke from the Jewish state and touching  off a new diplomatic row between the two countries.
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Foreign minister Silvan Shalom on Wednesday toured a gutted Jewish community center which was torched by arsonists and expressed indignation that anti-Semitic violence could still haunt France so long after the end of the Holocaust.
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Israeli officials predicted Sunday that allegations the government spied on the Pentagon would prove false, but analysts said damage had already been done the Jewish state's image and that of its lobbying ally in Washington.
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&quot;Given the increase in attacks since April and in the context of an elevated terrorist threat, travelers planning to go to the kingdom are advised to delay their trip for the moment except for imperative professional reasons,&quot; the French Foreign Ministry
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (CP) - France defended itself Friday against accusations by Ivory Coast authorities, and some western evacuees, that it used excessive force to protect foreigners against violent mobs during five days of upheaval in its former West
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A previously unknown Islamic militant group has said it set fire to a Jewish soup kitchen in Paris, but French investigators are treating the claim with caution.
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Israeli Foreign Minister Sylvan Shalom said here Wednesday that he was confident French authorities are making every effort to fight against anti-Semitism.
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French police are investigating an arson-caused fire at a Jewish Social Center that might have killed dozens without the quick response of firefighters.
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Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, on a hasty visit to France after a Jewish soup kitchen was burned down, urged French officials and judges on Tuesday to punish anti-Semitic culprits more severely.
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(InfoWorld) - The stars of the French blogging firmament attending a social media conference on the edge of Paris were outshone on Tuesday by Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who stopped by for a surprise visit. A last-minute addition to the program, Peres spoke in English for 45 minutes, touching on themes including economic development, philanthropy, transparency, and democracy, but hardly spoke about IT. Conference host and blogger LoÃ¯c Le Meur said that Peres invited himself to the event. The Israeli politician was apparently already in Paris, and had encountered Le Meur before, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Le Meur said. French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is also expected to pay a visit to the conference, Le Web 3, on Tuesday afternoon. On Monday morning, Le Meur said everyone at the event had invited themselves. Le Web 3 was promoted purely by word of mouth, he said, and he had not sent invitations to any of the 1,000 people who signed up for the conference, 55 percent of them from outside France. However, Le Meur changed tack on Monday afternoon, as he wrote later in his blog. Profiting from the prestige that Peres' visit brought to the conference, Le Meur invited three presidential candidates to attend: Sarkozy, of the ruling right-wing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP); SÃ©golÃ¨ne Royal of the Socialist Party, and FranÃ§ois Bayrou of the centrist Union for French Democracy (UDF). That Sarkozy was the first to reply and accept Le Meur's invitation is little surprise. Le Meur interviewed Sarkozy in a video for his blog last year, and then announced his intention to vote for Sarkozy in a Sept. 10 blog entry. Both blog postings were widely reported in the mainstream press at the time. It was Bayrou that turned up at the event first though, drawn as he put it by the potential audience of 60 million readers. The real reach of French blogs is harder to determine. Studies have reported that the country may have as many as 20 million bloggers. However, there are only 10 million Internet subscribers in France, according to government statistics. Only 1.2 million, or around 2 percent of the 62.5 million blogs tracked by search engine Technorati Inc. are French, the company's chief executive officer David Sifry said at the conference. That figure may be under-reported, Sifry said, as some of the major French blog hosters do not automatically transmit notice of updates to Technorati. Sifry spoke of the positive feedback mechanisms inherent in the blogging community: Technorati statistics show that the more often bloggers write, the more their blogs are linked to, and so the higher their profile becomes, encouraging them to write more. The company indexes blogs by their content and the tags, or keywords, that their authors attribute to them. On Tuesday morning, "leweb3" was the second most-popular search term on the site.
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AMID speculation over the cause of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier today said France had nothing to hide concerning the late Palestinian leader&#39;s medical file.
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French Foreign Minister Michel  Barnier, visiting Israel to patch up tense relations, promised  on Sunday that his country would do all it could to fight  anti-Semitism.
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PARIS -- Israel's foreign minister praised France yesterday for working to stem a four-year wave of anti-Semitic violence but emphasized that efforts to combat prejudice against Jews need to be reinforced among the public -- especially French youths.
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The attack raises concerns that militants can enter Israel from Egypt.
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A previously unknown Islamic militant  group said on Monday it set fire to a Jewish soup kitchen in  Paris, but French investigators treated the claim with caution.