Topic: Radio France Internationale

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Strikes, unrest in France unabated Tuesday

The Interior Ministry in France said 480,000 protesters demonstrated Tuesday as strikes continued over a plan to reform the country's pension system. Union organizers said "growing mobilization" would continue to disrupt services, schools and petroleum deliveries, Radio France Internationale reported ...

Apathy, boycott sink Moldova referendum

Officials blamed voter indifference for the failure of a referendum in Moldova to break a political deadlock. The east European country has been without a president for a year, but still not enough voters went to the polls Sunday to resolve the ...
Benin suspended Radio France Internationale broadcasts for 14 hours on Tuesday and questioned one of its journalists after it aired reports on accusations against the president, witnesses said.The reports aired over the weekend as the tiny West African country celebrated 50 ...

Cameroon police block journalists' rally

<div><p>Police in Cameroon Monday stopped several hundred journalists from demonstrating on World Press Freedom Day to call attention to the death in detention last month of an editor.</p><p>Police used billy clubs on the demonstrators as they tried ...

Poll says Obama, Dalai Lama world's most popular

<div><p>US President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama are the world's two most popular leaders, according to a poll conducted in six countries and released on Friday.</p><p>Obama won 77 percent backing, one percentage point higher than ...
<div><p>US President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama are the world's two most popular leaders, according to a poll conducted in six countries and released on Friday.</p><p>Obama won 77 percent backing, one percentage point higher than ...
<div><p>Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade marked 10 years in office Friday saying he could not recollect a single failure during his time at the job amid criticism he ignores social ills in the country.</p><p>Wade, whose election on March ...
Togo's ruling and opposition parties Friday both claimed victory in a presidential vote amid fears of renewed violence in the tiny west African nation trying to turn the page on electoral bloodshed."Results compiled at the voting centres in our possession ...

Iran bails French radio correspondent: website

Iran has freed the local correspondent for Radio France International (RFI) on bail, her family said as cited by opposition website Rahesabz.net on Wednesday.Fariba Pajooh " was released after posting a bail of 500 million rials (50,000 dollars) and after ...