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France © François Guillot / AFP | French Minister of Justice François Bayrou presenting his bill on the "moralisation of public life", on June 1, 2017 Video by FRANCE 24 Text by NEWS WIRES Latest update : 2017-06-14 France's govement is presenting a bill on cleaning up political ethics after y...

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Rwandan President Paul Kagame criticised France on Monday after French investigators reopened a investigation into the 1994 assassination of the Rwandan president, a killing that triggered the country’s genocide. “The judicial system of Rwanda is not subordinate to France or France’s interests,” Kagame told a cheering audience of judges, senior military officers and govement officials at an official judicial function. “It should be France in the dock being tried, not anybody in Rwanda and not Rwandans.” Rwanda’s former chief of army staff Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, now in exile, has accused Kagame of being linked to the shooting down of the plane carrying president Habyarimana Juvenal, the pr...

France’s foreign minister told Russia Friday there was no justification for the fierce assault on Syria’s Aleppo, as Moscow said it was ready to “work on” a French-drafted UN resolution seeking to allow aid into the besieged city. “What is happening in Aleppo is without precedent – nothing can justify such a deluge of fire and of death,” Jean-Marc Ayrault said after meeting Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow. “I met Sergei Lavrov to tell him face to face that no one can tolerate this situation.” ‘This level of violence has never before been reached’, says Ayrault Tensions between Russia and the West have spiked after the United States suspended talks over a ceasefire on Monday in pr...

For the 15th aiversary of the September 11 attacks in the United States, a French polling firm conducted a survey to gauge the impact of conspiracy theories among the French. The main finding? According to polling firm Odoxa, the majority of French people believe that the full story of that day has yet to be revealed to the public. Two thirds of those surveyed believe that key information has been hidden. That number gets higher the younger the respondents are, peaking with those under 25, 75 percent of whom believe facts are being withheld, as opposed to only 55 percent of those over 65. The hijackers of the planes were identified as being linked to al Qaeda, but 45 percent of French people...