France has ramped up security at its embassies after a weekly revived a formula seizing attention: Publishing crude cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
British speedster Mark Cavendish won a crash-marred fifth stage of the Tour de France, while Thor Hushovd held on to the leader’s yellow jersey.
France acknowledged on Wednesday that it airlifted weapons to Libyan civilians fighting Muammar Gaddafi’s forces.
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/ 10 November 2005
Violence across France appeared to abate on Thursday in the first 24 hours of emergency measures aimed at stopping the country’s worst civil unrest in decades. Some cities, including the Riviera resorts of Cannes and Nice, imposed curfews on minors. At least 482 cars were set on fire across the country on Wednesday night.
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/ 3 November 2005
France’s government faced mounting pressure on Thursday after suburban rioters fired at police and firefighters, hurled rocks at trains and torched buses and car dealerships. Nine people were injured in Seine-Saint-Denis and 315 cars were torched across the Paris area where acts of violence ranged from stone-throwing to torching vehicles.