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• AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS: Slideshow: Fans show their true colours at CAN 2012
  

  AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS: Slideshow: Fans show their true colours at CAN 2012

  The colourful, imaginative costumes worn by football fans at the CAN 2012 tournament has created a carnival atmosphere at venues where matches are being played.
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• FRANCE: French police Taser pig
  

  FRANCE: French police Taser pig

  French police used a Taser on a pig running wild in the streets of a town near Paris on Wednesday, the Le Parisien paper reports.

  The United States military version of commercial [...]

• DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Kabila party leads Tshisekedi in DRC parliamentary poll
  

  DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Kabila party leads Tshisekedi in DRC parliamentary poll

  Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila’s party is leading the race for parliamentary seats, after a provisional overnight tally of votes cast in November polls. Kabila’s PPRD party has captured 58 [...]

• FRANCE: French police accused of racial profiling by human rights group
  

  FRANCE: French police accused of racial profiling by human rights group

  Ethnic profiling, body searches, insults and physical violence against black and Arab young men are some of the accusations against the French police published on Thursday in a report by US-based Human Rights Watch, HRW.
   
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• REPORT – AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT: Gambia’s Jammeh pulls out of race for African Union Assembly presidency
  

  REPORT – AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT: Gambia’s Jammeh pulls out of race for African Union Assembly presidency

  Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has pulled out of the race for the presidency of the African Union’s Assembly, Gambia’s foreign minister told RFI on Thursday. This leaves Benin’s President Boni [...]

Sports

• REPORT – AFRICAN CUP OF NATIONS: CAN – Do-or-die for Ghana as they face Mali

  Verdant valleys sweep into the distance from the newly constructed stadium in Franceville. The quiet activity in the villages that nestle amid those plains offer up a sharp contrast to the intensity of the arena. Mali will take on Ghana in a battle to head [...]

• AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS: CAN – Côte d’Ivoire don’t disappoint, Sudan surprises

  The second round of games in Group B at CAN showed Côte d’Ivoire live up to their reputation but Gervinho could do better. Plus what have Sudan got in common with London’s public transport? And what does Schadenfreude mean in Oshiwambo?
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• AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS: CAN – Equatorial Guinea overperforms, Senegal outclassed on a soggy pitch

  Here are five things we learnt from the second round of games in Group A at CAN.

  A Senegal fan watches his team play Equatorial Guinea
  Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

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Business News

• Rodri Rodriguez: Vivacious Visionary, Queen of the Mariachis

  HOLLYWOOD (Herald de Paris) — Rodri Rodriguez is President and CEO of Rodri Entertainment Inc., an international entertainment production company founded in 1976. Rodriguez first made her presence felt in the entertainment arena in 1975 when she played a key role in the decision to have the Latin category added to the Grammy Awards.
  She [...]

• Investing in the future

  As readers from Riviera Times know, RFP is a very transparent financial adviser and all comments on financial markets and articles can be checked during the months after they’re published on our web site. We concluded our article in The Rivera Times January 2011 as follows: “Consequently, we remain very careful and we prefer to [...]

• Backing SOPA against the ropes-a

  SOPA and PIPA causing biggest hollow scare since the stupid Y2K thing
  WASHINGTON, DC (Herald de Paris) — It’s kind of shocking, isn’t it, that the US Congress and the US House of Representatives think they own, and thus can control, the internet.  For even if they were successful in signing these arrogant bills into [...]

PARIS NEWS

• BOOK REVIEW: Death Comes to Pemberley

  By Hubert O’Hearn
  THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO (Herald de Paris) – The shrewd novelist planning the latest work that will fill a slot on library shelves for centuries to come is well advised to make sure that his hero and/or heroine are left irrefutably dead, ideally done in by so hideous a manner that no one will [...]

• Homie Improvement

  SAN FRANCISCO (Herald de Paris) – I suddenly find myself on sabbatical from my university teaching job; a socio-psychological indulgance and affectation that I have come to adore and cherish. Note to world: my academic hiatus was not volitional, but rather collateral damage from some failed economic policies. I clearly remember talking to my Dean. [...]

• REVIEW – Then Again, by Diane Keaton

  By Hubert O’Hearn
  THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO (Herald de Paris) – I rarely read celebrity biographies or memoirs, not because I don’t enjoy either celebrities or biographies. Instead, my reluctance is based on that most annoying of personality quirks: Having a rigorous standard. In this case, the standard is phrased in two simple questions. Has the memoirist [...]

• The Passion of Christopher Hitchens

  By Hubert O’Hearn
  THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO (Herald de Paris) – There have been precious few regrets in my writing career. The fact that you choose to take the time it takes to read this is indicative of that. There is no real point to writing without an audience – that would be you – [...]