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Human Rights Abuses Against Cassez Force CNDH to File Criminal Complaint in Mexico
March 15, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Mexico's top human rights body has called for a probe into more than a score of current and former federal law-enforcement officials for alleged rights violations of Frenchwoman Florence Cassez, who spent seven years in prison on a kidnapping conviction before Mexico's high court ordered her released in January. continue reading »
Mexican Reporter Lydia Cacho to be Named to French Legion of Honor
March 6, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
France plans to name Lydia Cacho, one of Mexico's most prominent reporters, a Knight of the Legion of Honor on Friday, the French Embassy in Mexico City said. continue reading »
Spain, France Arrest 3 Terror Suspects
March 2, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Three suspected Chechen terrorists were caught in a Spanish-French operation that followed up on the dismantling of a terrorist cell last August in Spain. continue reading »
Woman Defaces Famous Painting in French Museum
February 9, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A young and apparently "unstable" woman used an indelible marker to deface the renowned painting "Liberty Leading the People" by Eugene Delacroix, which was being exhibited at a branch of the Louvre in the northern French city of Lens. continue reading »
Mexican Supreme Court Overturns Frenchwoman’s Conviction, Florence Cassez Released
January 23, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Mexican Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of Florence Cassez, a Frenchwoman convicted of kidnapping and other crimes in Mexico and sentenced to serve 60 years in prison. continue reading »
Will Mexico Throw Out 60-Year Sentence for Frenchwoman Convicted of Kidnapping?
January 23, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The French government is confident that the Mexican Supreme Court will throw out the 60-year prison sentence imposed on Florence Cassez, a Frenchwoman convicted of kidnapping in Mexico, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Wednesday. continue reading »
France Sends Troops to Mali’s Capital to Halt Islamist Militants
January 13, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
France said Saturday it has deployed troops to Bamako protect its citizens living in Mali's capital and also announced the death of a French pilot during an air offensive launched to halt the advance of Islamist militants, who control much of that West African country's northern region. continue reading »
French Military to Purchase Spanish Refueling Planes
October 20, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
France's defense minister announced here Friday that his country will purchase 14 MRTT aerial refueling tanker aircraft from Spain. continue reading »
A Bus and Train Collide in Dominican Republic Killing 3 Tourists, Injuring 23
June 8, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Three French tourists were killed and at least 23 others injured when a bus collided with a train in Higuey, a city in the eastern Dominican Republic, media reports said. continue reading »
Red Cross Confirms French Journalist’s Release After 33 Days with the FARC
May 31, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The International Committee of the Red Cross, or ICRC, announced Wednesday that French war correspondent Romeo Langlois was released by the FARC guerrillas, left the village of San Isidro with the humanitarian mission that took custody of him and is en route to Florencia, the capital of Colombia's southern Caqueta province. continue reading »
FARC Will Finally Release Detained French Journalist This Week
May 27, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
French journalist Romeo Langlois will be released this week, Colombia's FARC guerrilla group said in a statement on Sunday. continue reading »
UPDATE: Colombian Government to Assist in Release of French Journalist
May 16, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Colombian government notified France that it will do what is necessary to enable leftist rebels' plan to release a French journalist who fell into guerrilla hands, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday. continue reading »
France Yet To Respond to Colombian Rebels’ Offer to Release French Journalist
May 15, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Former Sen. Piedad Cordoba and the International Committee of the Red Cross agreed on Monday to form a delegation to receive a French journalist captured last month by leftist FARC rebels while embedded with Colombian security forces, but neither Paris nor Bogota commented on the proposed release. continue reading »
Mexico To Use French Soccer Tournament to Finalize its Olympic Roster
May 10, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Mexico's under-23 national soccer team will compete in a tournament this month in Toulon, France, fielding a squad of 20 players under consideration for the Olympic roster. continue reading »
Picassos: Spain Loses Them, France Finds Them and the Works Sell at Record Prices in NYC and the UK
December 2, 2010 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
It has been a record-breaking year for Picasso sales. In May, the highest price ever paid at auction for an artwork – £70m (109.03900 million dollars)– was handed over for Nude, Green Leaves and Bust in New York. The following month, a Blue Period portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto sold at Sotheby's in London for more than £34m (52.9618 million dollars). But this week, the late artist is news in France, where a former electrician turned in close to 300 never before seen art-pieces, and in Spain, where 6.6 million dollars worth of art was stolen from a truck, at least one Picasso among the loot. continue reading »
