Nearly 300 people were arrested in Paris after far-right groups clashed with riot police at a protest against gay marriage.
Three days after the bombing of the French embassy in Tripoli, Benghazi citizens rallied to denounce violent acts aimed at destabilising the country.
The “Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intéieur” (Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence, DCRI), a French intelligence agency decided suddenly that an article about a military base contained classified information, and wanted it deleted.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said that France and Britain are prepared to start supplying arms to the Syrian rebels even without unanimous EU support.
With major operations in the North purportedly coming to an end, the French are keen to begin pulling troops from Mali by the beginning of March. But the remaining insecurity – as seen in the suicide bombings in Gao – calls into question the ability of the former colonial power to leave