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Documents from the archive of whistleblower and former NSA worker Edward Snowden show that Britain’s GCHQ signals intelligence agency has targeted European, German and Israeli politicians for surveillance.
The American spy stayed in northern Cornwall for three weeks. He was delighted with the picturesque setting, with its dramatic cliffs and views of the Atlantic.
In a classified report, the NSA employee also raved about the British signals intelligence agency GCHQ‘s field of antennas, located high above the Atlantic coast, about 300 kilometers (190 miles) west of London. Her Majesty’s agents have been working at the site, where 29 satellite antennas are aimed skyward, for decades. The Cornwall intelligence base, once part of the Echelon global signals intelligence network, was previously known as “Morwenstow.” Today the site is known as “GCHQ Bude.”
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
1915 – Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The Germanzeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
1949 – EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
1994 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
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Pourquoi ressembler à tout le monde (Why be like everyone else)? If you know French as a foreign language, you may escape this question. True, the 274 million-strong French speaking community is no match to the imposing 1.5 billion English speakers. But that’s the beauty, and the paradox. The day everyone speaks a particular language, its linguistic charm invariably fades.
It has been just two years since Oman and France celebrated the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations. And the cultural and economic relations between the two nations continue to blossom.
Journée internationale de la Francophonie (International Francophonie Day) is around the corner. March 20 is celebrated across the 77 member countries of the Organisation International de la francophonie (OIF), paying rich tributes to the French language and francophone culture. Francophonie, coined by the French writer Onésime Reclus, refers to the diverse geographic