Conseil d'Etat

Sunday, April 28, 11.30 a.m.: I head up 116th St to campus. It is quiet, as though the protests of last week never happened. There are no police cars. A few journalists are setting up on the traffic island on Broadway. Outside the gates a small group of Orthodox Jews, in fur hats and leggings, hold up placards denouncing Zionism. One of them is being interviewed by a TV crew.

With 16 votes in favour, and 9 against the extended Plenary session of the Council of State (CoS) has accepted the appeals submitted against the procedures that lead to the issuing of the recent TV licenses. The ruling focused on the the three stages that included the:
1. The basis of the appeals
2. Vested interest, and
3. Admissibility

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said he is leaving office, AFP news agency says.

The report has not been immediately confirmed.

#BREAKING French foreign minister Fabius says he is leaving government

? AFP news agency (@AFP) February 10, 2016

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius presented a landmark global climate accord on Dec. 12, a "historic" measure for transforming the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades and turn the tide on global warming.

Efforts to craft a global accord to combat climate change stumbled early on Dec. 11 after a "hard night" of talks, forcing host nation France to extend the U.N. summit by a day to overcome stubborn divisions. 

France sought to revive its relations with Iran on July 29, inviting President Hassan Rouhani to visit Paris in November, in a gesture that swiftly follows this month's historic nuclear deal.