https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed French and Malian forces patrolled Timbuktu on Tuesday after they seized Mali's fabled desert city as part of a lightening advance against the Islamists controlling the country's vast north. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130129/troops-patrol-timbuktu-after-heroes-welcome Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:19:00 +0100 troops-patrol-timbuktu-after-heroes-welcome French and Malian troops seized control of the fabled city of Timbuktu on Monday, a bastion of radical Islamists occupying northern Mali since last April, military and government sources said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130128/french-and-malian-troops-seize-timbuktu Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:53:00 +0100 french-and-malian-troops-seize-timbuktu