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France is ready to quadruple its civilian aid to Afghanistan to shore up schools and other nonmilitary institutions but is not ...Source : USA Today (subscribe)Explore : Afghanistan, Asia, World

French businessman Francois-Henri Pinault (pictured) was blocked in a Paris taxi on Tuesday by angry workers from two of his stores that have announced 1,200 job cuts. Police had to intervene to end the one-hour standoff.Source : France24 (subscribe)Explore : World

Wondering who participated in Earth Hour 2009? Here are 17 big time locations with "before and after" shots compliments of the Boston Globe. Participants include Taipei, Hong Kong, Athens, Beijing, Toronto, Rome, Sydney, Shanghai, Bangkok, Paris, Stockholm, London, Lausanne, ...

The incident at a Caterpillar plant in the Alps was at least the third time in the last few weeks that French workers have detained their bosses to protest job losses.Source : New York Times (subscribe)Explore : World

Dozens of workers at a manufacturing plant owned by US construction equipment firm Caterpillar in the city of Grenoble have detained four managers and are demanding further talks on announced layoffs, a union official confirmed.Source : France24 (subscribe)Explore : World

... test for the Confederation Cup tournament in June in the friendly encounter against Portugal in Lausanne on Tuesday night.The star-studded Portuguese are also precariously placed in their World Cup qualifying campaign, having done their prospects no good at all by the goalless home draw against Sweden ...

Melbourne: All set to be in India in mid-April to meet potential franchisees for the 2010 World Series of Boxing, WSB chief operating officer Ivan Khodabakhsh says some of the criteria for selection would be credible investors and "appropriate" training facilities.In an e-mail interview from the International ...

As the economic crisis continues to take its toll in 2009, figures from French statistics institute INSEE show France's public deficit topped 65.9 billion euros - 3.4% of its GDP - in 2008, with even worse forecasts in place for 2009.Source : France24 (subscribe)Explore : ...

Geneva - Starting in 2013, up to 100 European airports will take part in a plan to reduce CO2 emissions over the continent's airspace by half a million tonnes a year, aviation industry groups said Tuesday. The plan to the use the so-called Continuous...Source : The Earth ...

Geneva - Up to three boats capsized off the coast of Libya, having set sail with hundreds of migrants in the direction of Italy over the past few days, many of whom are missing and feared dead, humanitarian officials said Tuesday. Officials with the ...Source : ...