Care workers mounted nationwide protests on Tuesday complaining they are under increasing pressure to cut corners on feeding, cleaning and hygiene care for those living in France's 7,000 nursing homes, and denouncing a government reform of elderly care as further threatening jobs and the quality of services.
Oscar Temaru, campaigning ahead of independence elections in April, has said it was scandalous that France knew about the risks posed to the local population by the 193 nuclear test blasts cordered by Paris in French Polynesia between 1966 and 1996, and demanded that France assume responsibility for the former workers at Moruroa who are now seeking compensation.
Elisabeth Revol, rescued by an elite group of Polish climbers who scaled part of the 8,125-metre-tall Nanga Parbat mountain in darkness overnight Saturday and Sunday to reach her, when she and her since-disappeared Polish companion ran into difficulties, has arrived back in France where surgeons will attempt to save her from amputation of frost-bitten fingers and toes.
Jonathann Daval, 34, who took part in media appeals for witnesses after insisting that his wife Alexia, 29, who he said disappeared after going jogging on October 28th before her charred body was found in woodland two days later, has confessed under questioning to killing his wife, whom he described as violent, in an accident during a dispute.
