France scorns beheading claim
France has scornfully rejected a claim by Ivory Coast’s president and its top Roman Catholic cleric that French troops beheaded young protesters there. Officials condemned President Laurent Gbagbo’s “disinformation” and urged him to stop fuelling anti-French hatred. Cardinal Bernard Agre said last week he had seen young girls decapitated by the French army – a charge President Gbagbo said he believed to be true. Full Story