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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.
Armenia, 
TurkeyTurkey recalls its ambassador to France in protest at a bill making it illegal to deny that the killing of Armenians in World War I was genocide.
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Germany, 
United KingdomWhile countries like Britain are resisting efforts to pool more sovereignty in economic terms, others like France and Germany are keen to press on with ever closer union. The BBC's Matthew Price looks at what's next for Europe.
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United KingdomBritish women with silicone breast implants made by a French company should not have them removed, a UK watchdog says, amid concerns over health risks.
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Thirty thousand women in France, given a potentially defective breast implant, will be told this week whether to have them removed.
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TurkeyTurkey's president urges France to scrap plans for a bill criminalising the denial of the 1915-16 mass killings of Armenians as genocide.
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French triple jumper Teddy Tamgho is banned for 12 months, six of which are suspended, after being involved in a fight with a female athlete.
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The 1902 silent movie A Trip to the Moon by the French film-maker Georges Melies has been restored in one of the most complex and ambitious movie projects ever.
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United KingdomA giant set of Olympic rings is unveiled at the entrance to Channel Tunnel in France - mainland Europe's gateway to London 2012.
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Ratings agency Fitch affirms France's top-notch AAA credit rating but revises its outlook on the country to "negative".
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French Guiana, 
RussiaA Russian Soyuz rocket has launched from French Guiana - only the second such vehicle to fly out of the territory's new Sinnamary spaceport.
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French Guiana, RussiaA Russian Soyuz rocket launches from French Guiana - only the second such vehicle to fly out of the territory's new Sinnamary spaceport.
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A rescue operation has been taking place off the French coast after a cargo ship ran aground in heavy storms.
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Paris's Beat-era bookshop where authors read, write and sleep
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United KingdomDeputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg tells the French prime minister that steps should be taken to "calm the rhetoric" on the UK economy.
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MaltaA Maltese-registered cargo ship has run aground of the coast of Brittany, leaking oil onto a nearby beach.
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A storm lashes north-western France, leaving thousands of homes without power and oil leaking from a stranded cargo ship.
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Self-styled revolutionary "Carlos the Jackal" is convicted by a French court of organising four deadly attacks in the 1980s and sentenced to life in prison.
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Former French President Jacques Chirac says he has no plans to appeal againt a sentence for diverting public funds, but denies the charges.
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Hollywood and France fall for each other at the Golden Globes
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United KingdomFrench central bank head Christian Noyer says ratings agencies should downgrade the UK before France because its economy is weaker.
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A French court gives former President Jacques Chirac a two-year suspended sentence for diverting public funds and abusing public trust.
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A French court has given former President Jacques Chirac a two-year suspended prison sentence for diverting public funds and abusing public trust.
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United KingdomA French museum wins a bidding war for an unpublished Charlotte Bronte manuscript, dashing hopes that it could return to the author's former home.
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Michael Jackson's daughter Paris says that her father was the inspiration to embark upon a film career.
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A French court is due to deliver its verdict in the long-running corruption trial of former French President Jacques Chirac.
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Heirs of the founder of the French car company Renault demand in court compensation for the nationalisation of the firm after World War II.
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United Kingdom, 
United StatesA British man causes thousands of euros worth of damage after appropriating a luxury villa on the French coast to seduce an American girl, media reports say.
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French bank Credit Agricole, one of the most exposed to the eurozone debt crisis, says it will cut 2,350 jobs worldwide.
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A fire at a retirement home in the French city of Marseille, blamed on a resident opening a bag of sweets, leaves six women dead.
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Australia, 
Canada, 
JapanFrance, China and Japan criticise Canada for formally withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, but Australia defends Ottawa's decision.
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MaliThe alleged kidnappers of two Frenchmen in the West African state of Mali last month have been arrested, Malian officials say.
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A traveller "from Asia" makes a record purchase at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport, spending nearly 50,000 euros on six bottles of exclusive wine.
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LaosA retired French colonel killed himself to protest against "indifference" to the plight of Laos's Hmong minority, French media report.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy says there are now clearly two Europes following last week's summit in which the UK vetoed EU treaty changes.
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Riot police in Paris have been brought in to protect a city centre theatre putting on a play said to be blasphemous by many Catholics.
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PanamaPanama's jailed ex-ruler Manuel Noriega returns to his homeland after being extradited from France to serve sentences for murder and other crimes.
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The former prime minister of France, Dominique de Villepin, has announced he will stand in next year's presidential elections.
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French former prime minister and centre-right politician Dominique de Villepin announces he will stand for president in the 2012 election.
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A Staffordshire MP apologises for the "inappropriate behaviour" of fellow guests he was with on a stag party in France.
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The French industry minister has said that nuclear reactor maker Areva will announce large losses on Tuesday.
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Credit rating agency Moody's downgrades France's big three banks, two for the second time, citing their funding difficulties.
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GermanyThe PM effectively vetoes an EU-wide treaty change, after making what French President Nicolas Sarkozy called "unacceptable" demands.
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The eurozone states agree to closer integration of tax and budgets to save the euro, but a bid to include all 27 EU members fails amid British objections.
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PanamaPanama's jailed former ruler Manuel Noriega will be extradited from France to his homeland on Sunday, Panama's foreign minister says.
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GermanyPresident Sarkozy of France and Germany's Chancellor Merkel call for the eurozone to have common corporation and financial transaction taxes.
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Thieves use a "paralysing" gas during the theft of a rhino horn from a Paris museum, the latest in a string of such thefts.
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Anglo-French electrical retailer Kesa, which is selling its Comet business, reports a half-year loss and says market conditions are more challenging.
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The French parliament backs a cross-party resolution to fight prostitution by making payment for sex a crime punishable by fines and prison.
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United StatesUS Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is due to hold talks with the French President Nicolas Sarkozy about the state of the eurozone.
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Glaciers in the French Alps have lost a quarter of their area in the past 40 years, according to new research.
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GermanyFrance and Germany reaffirm their commitment to reform the eurozone, as a top credit agency says ratings for most euro countries could be hit.
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GermanyFrance and Germany have been the powerhouses behind European integration since 1992, however it now seems that ordinary French people are less keen on the European Union.
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GermanyRatings agency Standard and Poor has put almost the entire eurozone, including Germany and France, on "credit watch" due to fears over the impact of the debt crisis.
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GermanyFrance and Germany call for a tougher EU treaty to cope with the eurozone crisis, as 15 countries are warned their credit rating could be downgraded.
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GermanyThe leaders of France and Germany are meeting in Paris to work on a plan for tighter financial integration that will be debated at Friday's European Union summit.
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GermanyFrance's Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel are to unveil proposals on the eurozone debt crisis, at the start of a critical week for the EU.
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Environmental activists break into a French nuclear power station, to highlight the "vulnerability" of atomic sites in France.
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GermanyFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are to meet to agree on joint proposals aimed at resolving the eurozone debt crisis.
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Iran, United KingdomFrance brings a number of diplomats and their families home from Iran, following Tuesday's attack on the British embassy in Tehran.
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Guinea, 
Guinea-BissauThe president of Guinea Bissau, Malam Bacai Sanha, is in hospital in Paris after becoming seriously ill, the BBC has confirmed.
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Prime Minister David Cameron discusses the eurozone debt crisis with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris.
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GermanyGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel says Europe is working towards setting up a "fiscal union", in an effort to resolve the eurozone's debt crisis.
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GermanyThe French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, says France and Germany must pull together to ensure stability at the heart of Europe.
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GermanyThe French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, says France and Germany must pull together to ensure stability at the heart of Europe.
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Rock star Lenny Kravitz is presented with one of France's highest cultural awards at a ceremony in Paris.
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Oscar Wilde's restored tomb is unveiled in Paris, complete with a glass barrier to make it "kiss-proof".
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SomaliaA French court jails five Somali men for between four and eight years for hijacking a yacht and taking a French couple hostage.
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Oscar Wilde's restored tomb is unveiled in Paris, complete with a glass barrier to make it 'kiss-proof'.
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SyriaFrench Foreign Minister Alain Juppe says time is running out for the Syrian leader after the Arab League agrees sanctions against Damascus.
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