The Venezuelan government on Saturday released seven imprisoned opposition activists. Among them is former presidential candidate Manuel Rosales. The ex-governor of Zulia province had returned from exile last year and had since been under house arrest. He was accused of having illegally enriched.
Marine Le Pen is still fails to fund its election campaign for the French presidency. Banks refuse to date the right Front National (FN) to borrow money for political reasons.
A French-British student died after he was robbed by a taxi driver in Russia and left in the cold. Authorities found the body of 21-year-old Nicolas Scott Lazareff Sunday in a forest outside Moscow, The Moscow Times report Monday.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Saturday that the banknote worth 100 Bolivar (almost 10 million) still has not been abolished and until January 2 remains valid.
In Venezuela Friday broken in several places protests and people beaten to looting after the government had declared at breakneck speed all banknotes of 100 bolivar invalid. The predictions of several economists who had warned of chaos, thus came.
' Viva Fidel, '' shouted thousands of Cubans Tuesday from the Revolution Square in Havana. Together with head of state Raul Castro and leftist leaders of friendly countries, such as the President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro, Bolivian President Evo Morales, Jacob Zuma of South Africa and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, they commemorated their deceased former leader Fidel Castro.
The center-right party Les Républicains wants Francois Fillon as its candidate for the French presidential election next year. The former prime minister is heading for a big win in the second, decisive round of voting for the Conservatives.
Interest in the election of a center-right leader in France, in the run-up to the presidential election next year, is great. Sundays are noon 10 to 15 percent more votes cast than a week ago, French media reported.
Francois Fillon has made the biggest impression according to a poll Thursday in a final debate between the two remaining conservative candidates for the French presidency. The former prime minister defeated his rival of Les Républicains Alain Juppé clearly.
French presidential candidate Francois Fillon has yet to win the center-right primaries, but can already count on approval from Russia. A spokesman for the Kremlin Vladimir Putin keeps warm memories of the premiership of the politician. Fillon Sunday won the first round of the primaries of the French Republicans.
The primaries in the center-right party Les Républicains leading up to the French presidential election appear for the former head of state Nicolas Sarkozy to walk out on a deception. After the counting of votes at least half of the more than 10,000 polling stations Sarkozy stands in third place.
The center-right party Les Républicains holds Sunday and exactly one week later elections for the French presidential election next year. It is the first time that the party holding such elections and to vote to all French people in over 10,000 polling stations. The winner of this selection is likely to be the next president of the country.
French-Libyan businessman says he has transferred three suitcases with money from the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy. In a statement distributed Tuesday by the French news website Mediapart said businessman Ziad Takieddine that it is a sum of 5 million euros.
is late on Wednesday a police officer killed in the mass protests in Venezuela. Two other officers were wounded. That said Interior Minister Nestor Reverol. The opposition leader Henrique Capriles said earlier that the marches 120 people were injured.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Has Monday paid a surprise visit to the Vatican City and talked to the pope. Francis recommended the controversial leader of the impoverished South American country, where almost everything is scarce or completely absent, to conduct an open dialogue to put an end to the deplorable condition.
French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy promised Tuesday that he wants to help Britain to reverse the brexit, provided he is re-elected. He wants in this case negotiate with Germany on a new treaty for the European Union.
After former President Nicolas Sarkozy, his potential opponent in the presidential election next spring, also has French President Francois Hollande visited Calais Monday to discuss the refugee camp there. Hollande promised the weary inhabitants ' '' ' which a solution is near ', the local press reported. The camp would forever ' '' disappear.
Venezuelans may decide in a referendum early next year if President Nicolas Maduro may remain. The condition is that timely enough signatures are collected, the National Electoral Council reported in the country.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to stand trial for shoddy his campaign chest in 2012.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has his party held that unity is the key to winning the presidential election in 2017. 'We do not win if we are divided,' Sarkozy warned Sunday at a party meeting in the city of La Baule.
The French Interior Minister has turned itself from a rural boerkiniverbod. Such a law is unconstitutional and would be tensions between communities only make up but said Minister Bernard Cazeneuve Sunday in the newspaper La Croix. Moreover, he doubts the effectiveness and necessity of the measure.
Mayors from various French municipalities adhering to the boerkiniverbod, now the Council of State ruled in a preliminary decision on a town that goes such a prohibition against civil liberties. The police in Nice will continue to hand out fines to Muslim women who do not obey the ban, says the mayor of the resort. Also in Frejus are Muslim women who wear a regular swimsuit still fined.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy does indeed next year a new bid for the presidency. Sarkozy made Monday on Facebook eliminate the last doubts about his candidacy. However, he must first still convince his party that he and not one of his dozen rivals the best candidate for Les Républicaines.
On a campsite on the French west coast last night panic created after a major fire. No less than 1500 campers had to flee the fire. Four people were slightly injured, including a girl of five and a firefighter. Five caravans burned completely, four were severely damaged.
Brazil is furious with the Uruguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs. Who accused Brazil of having to buy the voice of Uruguay in the president election free trade bloc Mercosur.
Venezuelan court sentencing of opposition leader Leopoldo López for his part confirmed in recent bloody anti-government demonstrations. Lopez had appeal because the trial would only serve to silence him, but the judge rejected that. Lopez, who is serving a sentence of fourteen years, thus remains behind bars.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was booed Monday in Nice, before a minute's silence for the victims of the attack on Thursday.
The station France 2 has apologized. After the attack in Nice left the station images of the truck hurtles through the crowd.
The brother of one of the Islamic terrorists behind the attacks in Paris on Wednesday sentenced to nine years in prison.
President Francois Hollande is terrible in his stomach with the violent demonstrations against the renewal of the labor law. That turned out yesterday when he hit a blunder by first banning the tenth manifestation and three hours later still allow.
