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  • France offers to join forces with UK's nuclear submarine fleet

    03/18/2010 9:28:30 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 12 replies · 456+ views
    The Guardian.co.uk ^ | 3/18/2010 | The Guardian.co.uk
    France has offered to create a joint UK-French nuclear deterrent by sharing submarine patrols, the Guardian has learned. Officials from both countries have discussed how a deterrence-sharing scheme might work but Britain has so far opposed the idea on the grounds that such pooling of sovereignty would be politically unacceptable. Britain and France each maintain "continuous at-sea deterrence", which involves running at least one nuclear-armed submarine submerged and undetected at any given time. It is a hugely expensive undertaking, and its usefulness in a post-cold war world has long been questioned by disarmament campaigners. Britain's independent deterrent, based on Trident...
  • La France D’Abord: Paris First to Capitalize on Russian Military Modernization

    02/16/2010 11:53:53 PM PST · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 250+ views
    The Jamestown Foundation ^ | 2/11/2010 | Vladimir Socor
    French President Nicolas Sarkozy has approved the sale of one Mistral-class warship to Russia; and France is now considering Moscow’s request for three more of that class of helicopter-carrier and amphibious-assault ship. The Russian Navy’s First Deputy Chief of Staff, Vice-Admiral Oleg Burtsev, broke the news on February 5 in Moscow about Sarkozy’s approval of the first warship procurement (Interfax, February 5). The French defense ministry confirmed this on February 8 and announced the Russian navy’s request for three additional ships (Le Monde, February 9). The announcements seemed timed by Moscow and Paris to undercut US Defense Secretary Robert Gates’...
  • French search for stolen Semtex

    07/19/2008 12:06:11 AM PDT · by Schnucki · 27 replies · 228+ views
    BBC News ^ | July 18, 2008
    French anti-terrorist officers are searching for 28kg (61lb) of Semtex explosive missing from a depot in the suburbs of the city of Lyon. France's interior ministry confirmed an investigation was underway, saying the manager of the site had been suspended. Semtex is a powerful explosive favoured by terrorist groups as it is odourless and difficult to detect. Police said detonators were also missing and that they are treating the theft "very seriously". The depot, in a disused 19th century fort at Corbas, is used for storing explosives by a civil defence unit charged with the job of blowing up bombs...
  • A rendez-vous in France with the Wild West (French C&W Festival)

    08/24/2007 2:13:12 PM PDT · by mojito · 24 replies · 595+ views
    International Herald Tribune ^ | 8/8/2007 | Ruth Ellen Gruber
    On a recent sunny weekend in the usually sleepy town of Craponne-sur-Arzon, American flags festooned the streets, country music blared amid the sidewalk cafés, and hundreds of people milled about in cowboy hats or even top-to-toe Wild West get-ups. Dozens of folks turned local squares in this town in the Haute-Loire region of southern France into impromptu, western-style dance floors. The catalyst for all this was the annual Country Rendez-Vous, a three-day festival of country-western music and bluegrass that takes place here each summer in late July. Over the past two decades, country and western festivals have sprung up in...
  • Tensions Rise Over Cave Trip Farce (Brits In Mexico)

    03/28/2004 2:32:12 PM PST · by blam · 9 replies · 160+ views
    The Guardian (UK) ^ | 3-28-2004 | Mark Townsend
    Tensions rise over cave trip farce MoD scotches wild theories claiming it told Mexico about expedition Mark Townsend Sunday March 28, 2004 The Observer (UK) Diplomatic tensions over six Britons being held in Mexico after being rescued from flooded underground caves increased last night when it emerged Ministry of Defence officials had told Mexican authorities of the cavers' precise plans over a month ago. The Observer has also learnt that the potholers, freed from a cave beneath the Mexican jungle on Friday after being trapped for eight days, had explored the same caves two years ago. The men were arrested...
  • Bush aides ponder Franco-U.S. ties

    04/17/2003 12:24:35 AM PDT · by kattracks · 6 replies · 110+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 4/17/03 | From combined dispatches
    <p>Top aides to President Bush plan to meet this week on the future of the Franco-American relationship amid sharp divisions in the administration over how to deal with France over its global campaign against the U.S.-led war in Iraq.</p> <p>Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice are to convene a meeting at the White House tomorrow in an effort to decide whether France should be punished for its antiwar stance, administration officials said.</p>