Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Why you shouldn't rely on Google translator

Translator says:
Details of the survey showed that 7 Democrats on 10 voters now know with certainty that they are going to devote their voices. The Los Angeles Times quoted the head of the poll which indicates that "Obama won support, but Clinton did not lost."
Which is not exactly what the French paper Libération wrote:

Le détail du sondage révèle que 7 électeurs démocrates sur 10 savent désormais avec certitude à qui ils vont destiner leur voix. Le Los Angeles Times cite le responsable du sondage qui indique qu'"Obama a gagné des soutiens, mais Clinton n'en a perdu aucun".

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Rumsfeld on the run to avoid arrest in France

From AlterNet:

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest over charges of "ordering and authorizing" torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the U.S. military's detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unconfirmed reports coming from Paris suggest.

U.S. embassy officials whisked Rumsfeld away yesterday from a breakfast meeting in Paris organized by the Foreign Policy magazine after human rights groups filed a criminal complaint against the man who spearheaded President George W. Bush's "war on terror" for six years.

Under international law, authorities in France are obliged to open an investigation when a complaint is made while the alleged torturer is on French soil.

Read more here.