We have started to collect the most important news related to France in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
France and the UAE sign an agreement allowing France to set up a permanent military base in the Gulf.
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Two men are held in France over death threats to the youngest son of President Sarkozy.
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Venus Williams reached the second round of the Australian Open with a far from convincing 6-2 7-5 win over Yan Zi.
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A French court hears arguments on how to apply a Chadian child trafficking sentence on six aid workers.
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The French PM is to meet police in Corsica after a suspicious fire damaged the island's parliament.
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France's president begins a tour of the Gulf, where he will sign a nuclear deal with the United Arab Emirates.
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Top French coiffeur Alexandre de Paris, who styled the hair of Elizabeth Taylor and many other stars, dies at 85.
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Guinea-Bissau police say they hold five al-Qaeda members over the killing of French tourists in Mauritania.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ex-wife loses a court bid to block publication of a book about her.
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A French court rules that press articles on alcohol should be subject to advertising regulations and carry health warnings.
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Nicolas Sarkozy says his country will stop broadcasting its multi-language 24-hour news channel, France 24.
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France's President Sarkozy says his relationship with a former model is "serious", even hinting at a wedding.
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The 2008 Dakar Rally is cancelled following the murder of four French tourists in Mauritania.
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Syria halts co-operation with France on the Lebanese crisis in an escalating row, Syria's foreign minister announces.
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Smoking bans and fines come into effect in bars and restaurants in much of Germany and all of France.
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French supermarket chain Carrefour apologises over a deadly stampede in one of its Chinese stores in November.
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Six French aid workers sentenced in Chad for child trafficking return to France to serve their eight-year terms.
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France is extending a smoking ban to bars, cafes and restaurants - but after New Year parties.
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France formally asks Chad to allow six French aid workers home to serve a sentence for attempted kidnapping.
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French car maker Peugeot Citroen announces plans to build its first factory in Russia, an expanding market.
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A court in Chad sentences six French aid workers to eight years of hard labour for trying to abduct children.
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Bangladesh cancels plans to send rare artefacts to a Paris exhibition after ancient Vishnu statues were stolen.
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Men suspected of killing French tourists in Mauritania belong to an al-Qaeda-linked group, prosecutors say.
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Four members of the same
French family are shot dead
while on holiday in Mauritania, police say.
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French journalist Gwen Le Gouil, seized by gunmen in Somalia's breakaway Puntland state, is freed, say officials.
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One of the French aid workers in Chad who denies abducting children tells a court that intermediaries misled them.
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Australia's new PM Kevin Rudd visits Kabul to pledge support, hours after French leader Nicolas Sarkozy also visits.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy says Afghanistan must not fall back into the hands of extremist groups.
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Six French nationals accused of trying to kidnap 103 children go on trial in Chad, amid tight security.
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Russia says a cancelled London exhibition of major Russian and French artworks should now go ahead.
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Five French ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees are convicted of links to terrorism by a court in Paris.
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Airbus parent EADS says it is selling off six plants to French, British and German companies.
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Belgium's Dutch and French parties form an emergency government, ending six months of deadlock.
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A foreign aid package for the Palestinians will total at least $7bn, France's foreign minister says at talks in Paris.
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Negotiations are underway to free a French journalist, Gwen Le Gouil, abducted in northern Somalia on Sunday.
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A French journalist, Gwen Le Gouil, is abducted in northern Somalia by unidentified gunmen.
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Emma-Jane Kirby shares an evocative trip down memory lane with a woman who, as a young girl, was part of the French Resistance in London.
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A court in Chad sets a date for the trial of six French nationals charged with trying to kidnap 103 children.
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A French court sentences Yvan Colonna to life in jail for killing the top French official on Corsica in 1988.
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A Dubai court jails two men for the kidnap and sexual assault of a French-Swiss teenager.
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France agrees a number of lucrative accords with Libya as Col Gaddafi makes his first visit to France since 1973.
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Chad says six French aid workers will be tried in a criminal court over an attempt to fly children to Europe.
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Six French charity workers accused of trying to fly children out of Chad start a hunger strike, a source says.
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Kieren Fallon's lawyer confirms newspaper reports the jockey tested positive for a banned substance while racing in France.
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Paris police detain a man following a parcel bomb blast which killed one person at law offices.
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