Tag: France

A worker cleans the new glass floor at The Eiffel Tower during the inauguration of the newly refurbish first floor, in Paris, France, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. Visitors of the Eiffel Tower can walk on a transparent floor at 188 feet high and look down through solid glass, with safety glass barriers around the edge. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Eiffel Tower gets $38M vertigo-inducing face lift

Washington Examiner · October 7, 2014 10:39 am

France’s Socialists detail hefty spending cuts

Sylvie Corbet · October 1, 2014 11:51 am

Head of Air France-KLM Alexandre de Juniac, speaks during a press conference in Paris, Sunday Sept. 28, 2014. Air France's leading pilots union on Sunday announced an end to a 14-day strike that grounded roughly half of the airline's flights, stranded passengers worldwide and led to stern shows of frustration by the French prime minister. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Air France pilots end strike after 14 days

Jamey Keaten · September 28, 2014 5:55 pm

National Security

Turkey, France in talks after mix-up over jihadis

Washington Examiner · September 26, 2014 6:29 pm

Air France workers gather in front of the company headquarters as they demonstrate against the pilots strike, in Roissy, outside Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. Air France-KLM says it isn't ready to abandon a plan to transfer activities to a low-cost carrier, contradicting a government minister's claim. France's junior minister for transport, Alain Vidalies, said on RMC radio Wednesday that Air France was withdrawing the plan in the face a protracted strike by pilots. Banners read, 'Air France workers against the strike'. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Pilots, Air France negotiating way to end strike

Washington Examiner · September 25, 2014 10:26 am

President Francois Hollande, of France, addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

National Security

Hollande: group that killed French man is a threat

Gregory Katz · September 24, 2014 7:08 pm

Members of a group calling itself Jund al-Khilafah, or Soldiers of the Caliphate, stand behind French mountaineer Herve Gourdel just before beheading him. In the video, the men pledge their allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, before killing Gourdel, 55, who they abducted on Sunday, Sept. 21. (AP Photo)

White House: Apparent beheading of French tourist ‘horrific’

Brian Hughes · September 24, 2014 5:33 pm

Investigators at loss to explain Air Algerie crash

Washington Examiner · September 20, 2014 6:19 pm

This image provided Friday, Sept.19, 2014 by the French Army's video and photo department ECPAD shows the destruction of a munitions and fuel depot overrun by the militants in Iraq. Joining U.S. forces acting in Iraqi skies, French fighter jets struck Friday against the militant Islamic State group, destroying a logistics depot, Iraqi and French officials said. (AP Photo/ECPAD)

National Security

France joins US against Islamic State over Iraq

Jamey Keaten · September 19, 2014 10:07 pm

Germany, France to provide airlifts in Ebola fight

Washington Examiner · September 19, 2014 7:39 pm

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at an hote in Paris, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. Sarkozy is expected to announce his political come-back this weekend. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

National Security

France: Sarkozy announces political comeback

SYLVIE CORBETANGELA CHARLTON · September 19, 2014 7:32 pm

In this Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014 photo, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Speaking to a small group of reporters after meeting with his French counterpart on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 in Paris, Dempsey said it will take three or four months to begin the $500 million training program, which the House approved on Wednesday and sent to the Senate, where members of both parties predicted easy passage. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Dempsey lauds French airstrike against militants

Robert Burns · September 19, 2014 2:56 pm