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Positive news from the Iraqi prime minister Haïder al-Abadi reached a high-level Franco-Iraqi meeting in Paris via a video link from B...

The Iraqi army has just announced that Ramadi , occupied since May by Daech, has been totally liberated. This is a major news item. T...

Now that George W Bush is leading the quiet life of a wealthy and distinguished retiree, we must not fail to recall constantly the extent a...

Theoretically, George W Bush will of course continue to be the US president until the investiture of a new man—who, I hope, will be Barack ...

The New York Times proposes an impressive compendium of US war casualties, presenting—as they say—" faces of the dead ". This you...

Upon this rock, George W Bush has decided to pursue his war in Iraq. But the gates of hell could well prevail against this bright and confi...

My post of 28 January 2007, Memories of Vietnam [ display ] , evoked the tenebrous precedent of the USA's defeat in Vietnam. Today, the...

A positive aspect of Bernard Kouchner 's background as a medical doctor is that he's not afraid of pronouncing a fatal diagnosis, ev...

On French TV this evening, it was interesting to hear the recently-appointed minister of Foreign Affairs, the former "French doctor&quo...

Cindy Sheehan 's 24-year-old son Casey died in Iraq over three years ago. Since then, this lady has become known as an anti-war activist...

There's an everyday expression in French, fond de commerce , whose literal meaning is "business assets". But it's often us...

I've always been amused by a silly little joke about a road worker erecting a pile of rocks in the middle of a street and placing a red ...

In comparing George Bush and Tony Blair, a wag [no pun intended] said recently that Bush has done everything wrong , with one exception: his...

Never before in recent political history has a former US president spoken so harshly about both the current president and the British prime ...

Some time ago, when I first voiced my belief in French opposition to a US invasion of Iraq, I recall the sarcastic words of a fellow in Aust...

I don't usually see Australian PM John Howard as a positive leader on the world scene, but I must admit that I liked his rough style of...

This famous photo shows Princess Elizabeth changing a lorry wheel during World War II. The 19-year-old heiress to the throne had joined the ...

On Friday, the French PM Dominique de Villepin visited Harvard University, invited by the political science professor Stanley Hoffmann. Fou...