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Nude Protests, Beard Contests Mark Belgium's 'Fries Revolution'
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsIn sharp contrast to the life-and-death revolutions sweeping the Middle East, there's a country in Europe about to surpass Iraq for the number of days it's been without a real government. Welcome to Belgium, where citizens on Friday will mark 250 days of Belgian-style anarchy with protests that will include stripping naked in the Flemish city of Ghent. French fries will be handed out in Leuven. It's all part of the so-called "Fries Revolution." Beer will also be provided to protesters in several Belgian cities. Nicolas Maeterlinck, AFP / Getty Images Half-naked young men hold a ...
Smoking French Icons Allowed to Puff on Posters Again
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsFrench politicians have voted to amend a strict anti-tobacco law that snatched cigarettes and pipes from images of some of the country's most famous smokers. Fear of breaking the 20-year-old Evin Law, which banned the direct and indirect promotion of tobacco and alcohol in public places, had led authorities to remove dozens of smokes from historical images. The legislation first sparked public outrage in 1996, when the post office used a photo of renowned author Andre Malraux for a stamp but airbrushed out his ever-present Gauloise. The law was back in the headlines almost a decade later ...
French Prison Official Suspended for Alleged Affair With Inmate
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsThe governor of a French prison is under investigation for allegedly having a sexual affair with a woman jailed for acting as bait in the kidnap and murder of a Jewish man in 2006. Florent Goncalves, 41, who ran the Versailles women's prison, has admitted that he had "fallen in love" with inmate Emma Arbabzadeh, The Telegraph reported. Goncalves planned to build a life with her once she got out of prison, he told police. Maxppp / ZUMA Press Florent Goncalves, director of the women's prison of Versailles, reportedly told police he had "fallen in love" with an inmate ...
Chefs Battle Over World's Tallest Chocolate Christmas Tree
By Larry Knowles - AOL NewsA chocolate arms race is heating up this holiday season as two French chocolatiers vie for recognition as creators of the world's tallest chocolate Christmas tree. The Yuletide rivalry began in 2007 when chef Alain Roby, 54, constructed a 22-foot-tall chocolate Christmas tree for a holiday display in a Hong Kong shopping center. Though the work was never submitted to Guinness for recognition, it nonetheless stood beside a vertical banner that proudly declared it a "New World Record." It wasn't the first of Roby's chocolate-themed feats. The French-born pastry chef at the Hyatt Regency in ...
France Brings the Fight to al-Qaida, With Mixed Results
By not in system - AOL News(July 28) -- Though France has quietly and inconsistently assisted U.S.-led efforts against al-Qaida, it's only now, after the terrorist group killed a French aid worker, that Paris has declared war on the international Sunni extremist group. "We are at war with al-Qaida," Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday, a day after the announcement of the death of 78-year-old hostage Michel Germaneau. The aid worker was abducted in Niger in April and taken to Mali, where he was reportedly beheaded by members of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, a cell that seeks to overthrow the government of ...
Botox Nation . . . or Why Can't Women Age Naturally?
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyLet's be honest. Most face-lifts are unflattering. They turn the faces of middle-aged women, who should be wrinkled from all that laughing, crying and squinting in the sunshine, into frozen wastelands. Okay, I'll admit to a little mannequin phobia (thank you "Twilight Zone"), but my point still stands. I think dyed hair can have the opposite of the desired effect. Instead of: How young she looks! people think: What did she do to her face? Maybe she smokes, or never uses sunscreen. Hair that grays prematurely, on the other hand, is almost always attractive, because then people get a glimpse ...
France's Latest Woe: Brand-New Website Crashes
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News(July 15) -- Just when things seemed as if they couldn't get much worse for France's image, already tarnished by its disgraced soccer team, a messy financial scandal involving the country's richest woman and a president with his lowest approval ratings ever, the government just launched a brand-new $2 million promotional website to great fanfare and then watched as it promptly crashed. It's been down ever since. Visitors to the much-ballyhooed France.fr, which was to serve "as a major promotional tool for France's image abroad," found only an apology today and an explanation that the site ...
Lock of Napoleon's Hair Sells for $13,000
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(June 30) -- A day after Napoleon Bonaparte died in 1821, a forward-thinking British officer snipped a lock of hair from his head. Today that piece of hirsute history sold at auction for more than $13,000. It was part of a collection of Napoleon memorabilia that brought almost $100,000. The hair was cut by Denzil Ibbetson while he was stationed on the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena, where Napoleon was exiled by the British after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Ibbetson, an accomplished artist, also made sketches of the former French emperor as he lay on his ...
Paris Facebook Group Throws Anti-Muslim Booze & Pork-Sausage Party
By Mara Gay - Politics DailyA right-wing group in France has used Facebook to organize an anti-Muslim "pork-sausage and booze" party at Paris' Arc de Triomphe on Friday. If all goes according to plan, thousands will gather to protest the presence of Muslims in France by drinking alcohol and eating sausage, both of which are banned in Islam. The xenophobic flash mob was planned by "Identity Block," a group that says it was formed in "resistance to the Islamization of France." So far, more than 7,000 have RSVP'd on Facebook. Identity Block members wanted to hold their soiree near a mosque in Goutte-d'Or, a heavily ...
Sarkozy Reiterates Trust in Obama, Support for U.S. Afghanistan Strategy
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPresident Nicolas Sarkozy of France spent Tuesday afternoon meeting with President Obama, discussing Afghanistan, possible U.N. sanctions for Iran and a controversial defense contract that angered European countries. At a late afternoon press conference, the two presidents told reporters that they trust each other completely and that their relationship represents unprecedented honesty between the United States and France. Sarkozy's two-day trip to the United States was designed to show that he is working with the United States on Afghanistan and economic issues as France prepares to take over ...
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