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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 KingdomTwo men are jailed for life for the "sadistic" murder of two French students in London, as a series of probation blunders are revealed.
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A former teacher is holding 18 students, a teacher and another man hostage at a school in France.
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A French student leader hints at talks with the government over a new labour law as protesters prepare for action.
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French students stage smaller-scale protests against the government's youth employment reforms.
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Three swans found dead in eastern France carried the H5N1 bird flu that can be fatal to humans, tests confirm.
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French police detain 190 people in an operation against undocumented migrants near the port of Calais, officials say.
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French police investigating suspected plans for attacks in France arrest at least 20 people during raids in Paris.
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A French court sentences a man who drugged his children's tennis rivals to eight years in prison.
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The French post-modernist sociologist and philosopher, Jean Baudrillard, dies in Paris aged 77.
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GuineaFrance urges its nationals to leave Guinea, amid growing criticism of the military junta's opposition crackdown.
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ColombiaEx-hostage Ingrid Betancourt, who was rescued from Colombian rebels this month, is awarded France's Legion of Honour.
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PakistanA French tourist abducted in Pakistan's south-western Balochistan province three months ago is freed.
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YemenFour French tourists abducted in Yemen have been freed, says an MP who has been mediating their release.
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United StatesA bus carrying French tourists crashes in California killing at least five people and injuring dozens, officials say.
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United StatesA bus carrying French tourists crashes in California killing at least five people and injuring dozens, officials say.
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YemenFour French tourists are seized by Yemeni tribesmen apparently seeking government concessions.
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The French financial trader at the centre of a massive fraud case gambled around 50bn euros, his employer says.
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The trader at the centre of a banking scandal in France is placed under investigation and freed on bail.
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A train strikes a school bus in the French Alps, killing six children and an adult and injuring dozens, police say.
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Widespread sabotage has damaged France's high-speed TGV rail network, the state rail operator says.
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Rail service resumes across much of France as a strike over pension reform winds down.
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India, 
Indian Ocean, 
ReunionFrance is deploying 400 troops to fight a mosquito-borne virus on its island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean.
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State-run French TV stations stop showing ads in prime time as part of President Sarkozy's plans to reform public broadcasting.
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A French court rules in favour of a website accused of libel for claiming TV film of a famous Gaza shooting was fake.
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France's labour minister is to meet the head of France Telecom to discuss a number of suicides among its staff.
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New French President Nicolas Sarkozy gets a boost as the jobless total falls to 2.2 million - the lowest since June 1982.
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Unions at Airbus plants in France call for strike action in protest at the planemaker's job cut plans.
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Three million French people have joined street protests against the country's economic policies, unions claim.
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French unions threaten more protests unless the government repeals a youth labour law by mid-April.
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Unions and student groups call for fresh action next week to keep up pressure over the youth job law.
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Transport workers in France vote to continue a national strike over the weekend, protesting against pension reforms.
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French utility groups Suez and Gaz de France agree to merge, creating one of the world's largest energy firms.
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Hopes are mounting that French utility groups Suez and Gaz de France are on the brink of signing a merger deal.
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Popular French anchorman Patrick Poivre d'Arvor presents his last TV news bulletin, after a three-decade career.
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The expulsion of a priest from a church in south-west France has set off a fresh debate about celibacy.
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Police in France say "a normal situation" has returned across the country following three weeks of urban rioting.
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The French parliament backs a constitutional change at a special congress to get the EU reform treaty ratified.
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Kenya, 
SomaliaA French warship captures 11 Somali pirates off Kenya, amid calls for greater international resolve in dealing with piracy.
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Convicted French Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon dies, aged 96, days after undergoing heart surgery,
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French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin urges cat owners not to let their pets stray into bird flu-hit areas.
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North KoreaA top South Korean representative of French defence group Thales is arrested on spying charges.
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ChadSix French charity workers accused of trying to fly children out of Chad start a hunger strike, a source says.
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NigerTuareg-led rebels abduct four French workers from a uranium mine in northern Niger but say they are not in danger.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French
writer who pioneered the so-called new novel genre, dies at the age of 85.
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One of the last two surviving French World War I veterans, Louis de Cazenave, dies in his sleep at the age of 110.
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