France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Former world champion Brian Joubert's preparations for the Winter Olympics were dealt a blow on Thursday when the French figure skater was forced to pull out of next month's ISU Grand Prix final in Tokyo with a right foot injury. Joubert, who earlier this month won the NHK Trophy in Japan, suffered the injury in training in the French city of Poitiers and the French Skating Federation (FFSG) said...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
POITIERS, France -- Under a bright autumn sun, the narrow lanes of ancient Poitiers teemed with families enjoying a lighthearted celebration of street theater. Suddenly, a knot of black-clad youths emerged from the crowd. They donned plastic masks, pulled up their hoods and started destroying...
France24 (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
French Minister of the Interior Brice Hortefeux (pictured) heads to Poitiers on Monday following violent anti-prison demonstrations that erupted on Saturday near a street performance festival in the city centre.
France24 (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
French police investigating a riot in the city of Poitiers have found a cache of weapons, including homemade explosives. The violence erupted at an anti-prison demonstration Saturday.
Why Mommy Is A Republican (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
This is rather disturbing. From Financial Times : One of two men arrested in France on Thursday on suspicion of having links with an Islamist terrorist group was working as a researcher at the Cern “big bang” laboratory on the French-Swiss border, the nuclear research body said on Friday. The man, believed to be a French national of Algerian descent, was detained by police near Poitiers...
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