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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
Twenty-three chefs of the heads of state in four continents
made their way to Monaco for their annual reunion in July.
Le Club des Chefs des Chefs, set up in 1977, unites these
élite chefs from around the world.
This year, the members made a trip to Lyon to honour
club founder Paul Bocuse and visited the Escoffier Museum
of Culinary Arts in Villeneuve-Loubet. Guests also met with
the Côte d’Azur’s most renowned cooks in a cocktail party
catered by Franck Cicognola.
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
After six years of controversial
investigations, only the former
directors of AZF and the Total
subsidiary Grande Paroisse are to be
charged with manslaughter.
For several years, 12 employees of
the company faced charges which have
since been dropped. At various times,
journalists from the magazine
‘L’Express’ and the daily ‘Le Figaro’
have faced charges, subsequently
shelved, of publishing libellous articles.
The journalists alleged that the disaster
may well have been a terrorist attack
rather than an accident caused by
negligence on the site. They suggested
that the original site investigation was
botched, deliberately or not, making it
impossible to find out afterwards what
really happened.
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
Overshadowed by suspicions about
the overall race leader Dane
Michael Rasmussen, the Tour de
France was already plunged into
confusion when stage winner Alexander
Vinokourov tested positive at Albi for an
forbidden performance-enhancing blood
transfusion. The 33-year-old Kazakh had
previously won the admiration of all by
his courageous pedalling after a serious
accident involving many stitches in his
knees and hips.
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
The release of five Bulgarian nurses and a
Palestinian doctor by Colonel Gaddafi
of Libya after last-minute negotiations
with a Franco-EU team is the end of an eightyear
saga. The negotiations took an
unorthodox turn when President Sarkozy sent
his wife Cécilia to the Libyan capital Tripoli
as his personal representative on July 13.
The medical staff were accused of
deliberately infecting 438 Libyan children
with AIDS. They confessed but later claimed
that their confessions were extracted under
torture. Independent experts said that the
presence of AIDS in the hospital was due to
the very insanitary conditions prevailing.
Despite Libya’s oil wealth, the country’s
infrastructure is in a very poor state, at least
partly as a result of many years of
international sanctions.
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
For 10 years, Hervé Morin was a close
associate of François Bayrou at the
UDF. In 2002, he was elected President of
their parliamentary group in the Assemblée.
He was active in the early days of Bayrou’s
presidential campaign but, between the two
rounds of those elections, he finally decided
that Bayrou’s insistence on an independent
party and his cosying up to Ségolène was
the wrong way to go. He advised his group
and party to vote Sarkozy. Most of them
followed his advice and the députés were
nearly all re-elected. They have maintained
their parliamentary group, now called
Nouveau Centre; it was a bitter blow for
Bayrou.
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