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We have started to collect the most important news related to France in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
United KingdomBradley Wiggins admits it is "more than likely" he will support Chris Froome in the 2013 Tour de France.
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Belgium, 
United StatesUS car giant Ford announces plans to close its factory at Genk in Belgium and French manufacturer PSA Peugeot Citroen has secured a 7bn euro state guarantee.
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French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen says it is seeking 11.5bn euros in new financing after reporting another fall in car sales.
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Three French magazines are fined by a Paris court for publishing photos of France's first lady Valerie Trierweiler in her bikini.
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France must do more to tackle the bribery of foreign public officials by French companies, a club of leading industrial countries says.
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Lance Armstrong should be made to repay his prize money from winning seven Tour de France titles, says the race's director.
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France's prime minister announces new measures to tackle organised crime in Corsica after last week's killing of a prominent lawyer
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Lance Armstrong is stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by cycling's governing body the UCI.
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Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life by the International Cycling Union, the sport's governing body.
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United KingdomAs a UK trade delegation tries to boost sales of British food in France, Sophie Van Brugen finds out what Parisians really think of pork pies and cheese sandwiches.
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French pilgrim town of Lourdes under water
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Hundreds of Roman Catholic pilgrims have been evacuated from the sanctuary of Lourdes in France after heavy flooding in the area.
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Hundreds of Roman Catholic pilgrims are evacuated from the sanctuary of Lourdes in southern France after heavy flooding in the area.
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United KingdomPolice investigating the shooting of a British family in the French Alps believe the cyclist also found dead at the scene was killed first, according to a leaked provisional scenario.
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GermanyBody language between French president Francois Hollande, and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel suggests their relationship may be tenser than ever
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France says a deal to launch a eurozone banking union next year will help speed up integration, but admits that EU nations are moving at different speeds.
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Micro-blogging site Twitter has agreed to remove a flood of anti-Semitic tweets that are circulating on its service in France.
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SpainBBC Weather's Nick Miller has the details on some heavy rain and stormy weather hitting parts of Spain and France this weekend.
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United KingdomFrench security services stopped tracking Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah, despite links to jihadists including in the UK, leaked documents suggest.
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Chile, 
ColombiaShares in Carrefour gain almost 7% after the French retail giant announced the sale of its Colombian business to Chile's Cencosud for 2bn euros.
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Google has said that it will exclude French media sites from its search results if a controversial law goes ahead in France.
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NetherlandsDutch actress Sylvia Kristel, who starred in the 1974 erotic French film Emmanuelle, has died aged 60. The film's director Just Jaeckin said: "She was like a small sister to me because we did Emmanuelle together."
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A 20-year-old "computer genius" is arrested in northern France for spreading a virus on smartphones that defrauded thousands of victims.
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NetherlandsDutch actress Sylvia Kristel who starred in the 1974 erotic French film Emmanuelle, dies aged 60.
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A pair of Marie Antoinette's slippers has been auctioned for 50,000 euros on the anniversary of the French queen's execution
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Silk shoes belonging to the 18th Century French Queen sell for 50,000 euros in an auction in Paris marking the anniversary of her execution.
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French prosecutors investigating the death of the late Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, question his widow Suha as a witness.
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IndiaFrench diplomat Pascal Mazurier, who is charged with raping his three-year-old daughter, is released from an Indian prison on bail.
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Germany, Spain, 
SwedenA round-up of Friday's World Cup qualifying matches as Sweden fight back from 4-0 down to draw with Germany and France score an injury-time equaliser against Spain.
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A major new art gallery has been installed in an unusual location: Paris's Le Bourget airport.
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Albania, GermanyProsecutors in France say police have smashed a "huge" Albanian heroin-trafficking network, making 42 arrests in eastern France and Germany.
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Small business leaders in France are hailing their success in forcing the government to abandon a controversial new tax policy.
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Smaller treefrogs are more likely to "cheat" their way to a mate, French scientists have found.
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MauritaniaMauritania's President Abdelaziz has been flown to Paris for treatment after being shot in what officials say was an accident.
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SwitzerlandAuthorities in France and Switzerland arrest 20 people, including the deputy mayor of a Paris district, on suspicion of laundering some 40m (£32m) euros of drug money.
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SwitzerlandAuthorities in France and Switzerland arrest 20 people, including the deputy mayor of a Paris district, in a major drug money laundering operation,.
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French prosecutors appeal against verdicts in a Paris gang rape trial amid public outrage over acquittals and light sentences.
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Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme says there should be "no winner" of Lance Armstrong's seven titles.
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United KingdomFishermen are calling for Royal Navy protection after claims they were attacked by French vessels.
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Fishermen are calling for Royal Navy protection after claims they were attacked by French vessels.
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Prosecutors in France say an alleged Islamist terror cell was planning the biggest bomb attack on France since the mid-1990s.
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A woman in south-west France, who mistakenly received a telephone bill of nearly 12 quadrillion euros, has the real amount she owed waived.
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Teacher Jeremy Forrest who was extradited from France after going missing with a 15-year-old girl appears in court to face a child abduction charge.
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French police have found bomb-making materials during an investigation into radical Islamist suspects arrested at the weekend, a prosecutor says.
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French police have found bomb-making materials during an investigation into radical Islamist suspects arrested at the weekend, a prosecutor says.
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Belgium, GermanyThe UK, French and German governments are holding talks that will decide whether the merger between defence companies BAE and EADS goes ahead.
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ItalyItalian director Bernardo Bertolucci, of Last Tango in Paris fame, will receive a lifetime achievement honour at the European Film Awards in December.
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MexicoFrance's first lady begins sending care packages to a French woman jailed for 60 years in Mexico for kidnapping.
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United StatesThe 2012 Nobel physics prize goes to two scientists for controlling single particles to yield a picture of the world at the most fundamental level.
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Germany, United KingdomFrance and Germany must reduce their stakes in EADS if the UK is to allow a proposed merger with BAE Systems, the defence secretary says.
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French President Francois Hollande promises the Jewish community a major increase in security after police shot dead a man suspected of targeting a kosher shop.
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Rally de France: Norway's Petter Solberg unhurt after crashing through a vineyard and toppling a telegraph pole.
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Visitors have been flocking to Paris overnight to participate in La Nuit Blanche, where free access is granted to many galleries, museums and monuments.
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A man linked to a grenade attack on a Jewish shop in Paris is killed in a shoot-out with French police during a wave of anti-terror arrests.
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French show has fun with old rock ballads
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Local residents complain that bars are colonising the streets and making it impossible to sleep, but some say they are proof Paris is a dynamic city.
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ChinaA French fashion designer apologises for telling a magazine that Chinese tourists would not be welcome at his new luxury hotel in Paris.
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Beekeepers in northeastern France have been alarmed to find their bees producing honey in unnatural shades of green and blue.
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Why Britain is on a high and France is in depression
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Robert Hall looks inside the labyrinth of tunnels underneath the Somme battlefield in France
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Newcastle cruise to a first Europa League Group D victory as they comfortably beat French side Bordeaux.
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Beekeepers in northeastern France, alarmed to find their bees producing blue and green honey, trace the problem back to a local biogas plant.
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At least 12 members of the police anti-crime squad in the southern French city of Marseille are arrested in an inquiry into corruption.
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United KingdomThe teacher arrested on suspicion of abducting Sussex schoolgirl Megan Stammers can be extradited to the UK, judges in France rule.
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France prepares a bill that would outlaw training in overseas militant camps, months after shootings by a foreign-trained extremist.
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Belgium, United KingdomA 24-hour strike over rail sector reform paralyses the network in Belgium, including high-speed services to London and Paris.
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French first lady Valerie Trierweiler admits she made a mistake sending tweets aimed against President Francois Hollande's former partner.
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French prosecutors drop an investigation into ex-IMF head Dominique Strauss Kahn over an allegation of "gang rape" in Washington.
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Double Olympic gold medal winner Nikola Karabatic is one of 12 French handball players arrested for match-fixing.
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Our daily morning business round-up looks at the main stories in Europe and Asia, including a new 75% tax rate for top earners in France.
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