<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - France</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/westerneurope/france?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/france</link><description>France</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[In Paris, Living Large for Less]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43839-2005May7.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/france</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43839-2005May7.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/france</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 22:04:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The windows of Paris used to torment me. When I first arrived in the city three years ago as a Converse-wearing, ramen-eating student, I would wander around gaping at the boutiques and restaurants I could not afford. I was a classic <em>leche-vitrine, </em>that miserably appropriate term that literally translates as "window licker." For those who, like me, were born with tastes that far exceed their means, Paris can be a frustrating place.]]></description><author> Rory Satran</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran Says It Will Keep Its Nuclear Program]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35367-2005May4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/france</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35367-2005May4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/france</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 22:04:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ UNITED NATIONS, May 3  --  A defiant Iran said Tuesday that it is determined to hold on to all aspects of its nuclear program, including uranium enrichment, and lashed out at the United States and Europe for trying to limit its efforts.]]></description><author> Dafna Linzer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Britannia came to rule those waves.By Daniel I. Davidson]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24380-2005Apr29.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/france</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24380-2005Apr29.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/france</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 22:04:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sir Walter Raleigh, the Elizabethan adventurer, believed that "Hee that commaunds the sea, commaunds the trade, and hee that is Lord of the trade of the world is Lord of the wealth of the worlde." In the mid-16th century, England commanded little. Spain controlled the vast wealth of the New World, and when its monarch inherited Portugal in 1580, he added the world's second-largest empire to its largest. France, for its part, had a population perhaps four times larger than England's.]]></description><author> Daniel I. Davidson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Along the Rhine,  Old Europe's New Vibe]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25665-2005Apr29.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/france</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25665-2005Apr29.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/france</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 22:04:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In Rhineland, the New Europe vibe is everywhere.<br>The cobbled streets of Rudolfplatz, a popular Cologne dining quarter, are lined with traditional German <em>brauhauses</em>  --  and French bistros, Spanish bodegas and Italian trattorias. On the Rhine, the mighty river that gives this...]]></description><author> Gary Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Largest Passenger Jet Makes First Flight]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21735-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/france</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21735-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/france</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 22:04:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PARIS, April 27  --  Europe's Airbus A380, the world's biggest passenger jet, completed its inaugural flight Wednesday, landing with tons of test equipment on the same runway near Toulouse where the supersonic Concorde also had its maiden flight in 1969.]]></description><author> Erika Lorentzsen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe's Minority Politicians in Short Supply]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/france</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/france</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 22:04:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PARIS  --  Mariam Osman Sherifay is a Muslim woman, born in Egypt. Coskun Coruz left his native Turkey as a child. And Paul Boateng is a soft-spoken and dapper lawyer, a black man who spent most of his childhood in Ghana.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item></channel></rss>