25 septembre 2006
Ségolene Royale
French socialist leaders Segolene Royal and Francois Hollande talk during a debate on Suez's planned merger with Gaz de France at the National Assembly in Paris September 25, 2006.
28 août 2006
Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
Kiefer Sutherland holds the award for outstanding lead actor in a drama series for his work on '24' at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday, Aug. 27, 2006, in Los Angeles.
25 août 2006
Press conference
French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Angela Merkel speak to journalists during a press conference as they are on a one-day meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday Aug. 25, 2006.
20 août 2006
Poitou-Charentes
French Socialist and President of the Poitou-Charentes region Segolene Royal delivers a speech during the feast of the rose in Frangy-en-Bresse August 20, 2006
19 août 2006
Lebanon
French soldiers from an engineering unit arrive to join the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon on the border with Israel at the Lebanese port of Naqura, near the southern city of Tyre August 19, 2006.
18 août 2006
hezbollah
Hezbollah guerrillas carry the coffin of fellow Hezbollah fighters, draped in a Hezbollah flag, during the funeral procession for ten militants, in the southern village of Srifa, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 18, 2006, who were killed in conflict with Israeli forces. A total of twenty-five villagers were buried in Srifa Friday, as the ground was opened for several mass funerals across south Lebanon, the Muslim holy day and fifth day of the cease-fire, after residents decided it was finally safe and hospital morgues had time to make sure all bodies could be claimed.
17 août 2006
Heavily-bombed Hezbollah stronghold
An elderly Lebanese man walks past a row of destroyed shops in the heavily-bombed Hezbollah stronghold of Bint Jbail in southern Lebanon Thursday, Aug. 17, 2006 on the fourth day of cease-fire in the country. 
A Hizbollah fighter walks past a damaged house in Aitaroun village in south Lebanon August 16, 2006.
Israel-Lebanon border
An Israeli tank returns from Lebanon near the northern Israeli town of Avivim, on the Israel-Lebanon border, August 16, 2006.
16 août 2006
Sponsors and affiliated charities
Katie Blair of Billings, Montana reacts after being crowned Miss Teen USA 2006 at the conclusion of the live NBC broadcast of the 24th annual Miss Teen USA competition in Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs, California August 15th, 2006. She will spend her year-long reign making special appearances on behalf of the Miss Universe Organization, its sponsors and affiliated charities.
14 août 2006
Lebanon
Lebanese children celebrate as they head back to south Lebanon on a damaged section of road near Naami, south of Beirut, Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. Hours after a U.N.-brokered ceasefire took hold Monday, thousands of Shiite refugees returned to disaster-stricken neighborhoods south of Beirut to check on their homes.
Qui perd, qui gagne ? Sous l'angle de la diplomatie et de l'opinion publique internationale, le succès de l'offensive d'Israël apparaît très douteux. Le Washington Post ne croit pas que le temps soit venu pour la construction "d'un futur plus encourageant" au Proche-Orient, comme l'a dit la secrétaire d'Etat, Condoleezza Rice, vendredi aux Nations unies. Au contraire, le quotidien américain considère qu'à ce stade, les grands perdants sont le peuple libanais, le gouvernement israélien et la lutte antiterroriste menée par l'administration Bush. Une image qui s'est encore détériorée dans les pays arabes, "en partie à cause de longues négociations qui ont été perçues (...) comme une tactique pour permettre à Israël d'atteindre ses objectifs militaires, à l'aide d'armes américaines", rapporte le Post, citant un analyste.
