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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 KingdomThe French fashion house Christian Dior has sacked its British designer, John Galliano following alleged anti-Semitic comments he made last week.
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LibyaFrance announces it is sending "massive" aid to opposition territory in Libya, amid allegations it has been too close to authoritarian regimes in the region.
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TunisiaBeleaguered French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie announces her resignation after weeks of criticism over her contacts with the toppled Tunisian regime.
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England manager Martin Johnson praises the way his team overcame a "very physical" France side at Twickenham to maintain their push for a Grand Slam.
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England give their Grand Slam hopes a major boost as they beat defending champions France 17-9 at Twickenham, ending Les Bleus' eight-match winning streak in the Six Nations.
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Italy, United KingdomEngland and France put their unbeaten Six Nations records on the line at Twickenham after Wales hold on to beat Italy in Rome.
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Roman Polanski is named best director at this year's Cesar awards in Paris, while Quentin Tarantino receives an honorary prize.
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England manager Martin Johnson believes France's game could disintegrate if his side get the upper hand in their Six Nations clash at Twickenham on Saturday.
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United KingdomFashion house Dior suspends British designer John Galliano over claims he racially abused a couple in a Paris restaurant.
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United KingdomEngland make one change for Saturday's Six Nations tie against France with Andrew Sheridan returning but captain Lewis Moody misses out through injury.
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The G20 reaches a deal on economic indicators for detecting global imbalances after the two-day meeting ends in Paris.
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Negotiators fail to agree targets to reduce global economic imbalances on the first day of the two-day G20 meeting in Paris.
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French GuianaEurope's unmanned space freighter launches from French Guiana on a mission to resupply the International Space Station.
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TunisiaFrance's Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie defends a property deal between her parents and an associate of the ousted Tunisian president.
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MexicoMexican writer Carlos Fuentes says France's Nicolas Sarkozy is acting like a "banana republic dictator" amid a row over a Frenchwoman jailed in Mexico.
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Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong confirms he has retired from competitive cycling for good.
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United StatesFrench pharmaceutical group Sanofi-Aventis agrees to buy US-based biotech company Genzyme for $20.1bn.
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Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador is cleared by the Royal Spanish Cycling Federation to compete after winning his appeal against a one-year doping ban.
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Cold weather takes the edge off growth in the Eurozone in the final three months of 2010.
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GermanyThe eurozone economy grew by 0.3% in the fourth quarter, official figures show, slightly weaker than expected.
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Electricite de France has reported a 74% drop in net profit as demand for gas and electricity remains low.
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Rajan Datar samples the hospitality available at some of Paris' supper clubs and meets the godfather of social networking.
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IrelandDeclan Kidney insists Ireland will continue pursuing their attacking game plan despite Sunday's agonising 25-22 Six Nations defeat by France.
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IrelandDefending Six Nations champions France beat Ireland in Dublin in a pulsating Six Nations match.
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ArubaAustralian Open champion Kim Clijsters regains her world number one ranking after beating Jelena Dokic in the quarter-finals of the Paris Open.
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MexicoA Mexican appeals court upholds the conviction of a French woman, Florence Cassez, whose imprisonment for kidnapping has caused friction with France.
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Magistrates are to take to the streets in French cities in an escalating row with President Nicolas Sarkozy's government.
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Brazil, 
IndiaFrench carmaker Renault says it aims to almost double profit margins by focusing on sales in Brazil, Russia and India.
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SwitzerlandMissing Swiss twin girls were last seen on a ferry to Corsica with their father, French prosecutors say, as their mother appeals for information.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy tells his government to holiday at home after revelations about two members of his government.
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French carmaker Peugeot Citroen returns to a full-year profit after seeing a strong recovery in 2010.
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EgyptFrench PM Francois Fillon says Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak lent him a plane and paid for lodgings during a family holiday at new year.
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EgyptAndree Chedid, the Franco-Egyptian poet whose son and grandson became famous singers, dies in Paris at the age of 90.
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TunisiaFrench Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, facing calls to resign, admits she was wrong to fly on a Tunisian businessman's plane.
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United KingdomReigning Six Nations champions France open their campaign with a stylish win over a spirited Scotland at the Stade de France.
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Italy, United KingdomScotland take on 2010 Grand Slam winners France in Paris after Ireland scrape home 13-11 against Italy in Rome
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Ireland, Italy, United KingdomWales take on England in the first match of the 2011 Six Nations.
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French actress Maria Schneider, best known for playing Marlon Brando's lover in Last Tango in Paris, dies aged 58 after a long illness.
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An ex-policeman raises questions about the verdict of suicide in the death of French minister Robert Boulin in 1979.
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Director Woody Allen's romantic comedy Midnight in Paris is to open the Cannes Film Festival in May, organisers announce.
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Gavin Henson may join Jonny Wilkinson at French giants Toulon just six weeks after his Saracens debut.
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A 50-vehicle pile-up caused by black ice blocks a slip road at Paris airport Charles de Gaulle, leaving 30 people injured.
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BelgiumFrench-Belgian stereotypes wheeled out for comic racism film
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TunisiaFrench prosecutors seize a jet said to belong to the family of ousted Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
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Serbian ex-paramilitary Milorad Momic, suspected of involvement in the Srebrenica massacre in 1995, is arrested in the French Alps.
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The wife of French former President Jacques Chirac denies he is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, a month before his corruption trial.
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IrelandFrench economic minister Christine Lagarde confirms leaders are discussing bolstering the bail-out fund used to rescue the Irish Republic.
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Tour de France winner Alberto Contador says he will appeal if a one-year provisional ban given to him by the Spanish Cycling Federation is confirmed.
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The French constitutional court upholds a ban on gay marriage, which was challenged by a lesbian couple with four children.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will never let the euro fail and those who bet against it should "watch out for their money".
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Serbia and MontenegroA Serbian court jails 14 football hooligans for up to 35 years over the 2009 murder of French fan Brice Taton in Belgrade.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo, 
RwandaA Rwandan rebel leader is extradited from France to The Hague, as his group is accused of attacking a Congolese wildlife park.
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United KingdomShares in UK banknote printer De La Rue fall 15% as rejected French suitor Oberthur decides to throw in the towel.
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TunisiaThe Paris state prosecutor's office says it is investigating the property assets held by ousted Tunisian leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in France.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy acknowledges France was slow to respond to protests that led to the fall of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
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BelgiumTens of thousands of Belgians rally to demand a government and call for better relations between Flemish and French speakers.
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A French court fines the boss of Warner Music Group for insider trading when he was a leading executive at Vivendi.
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France's foreign minister is mobbed in Gaza by Palestinians who mistakenly believed she had called the capture of an Israeli soldier a war crime.
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A top EU legal adviser warns the French government that it must do more to protect endangered hamsters near Strasbourg in eastern France.
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South AfricaSouth African authorities are investigating the death of a French couple who had been on the run for a week.
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GermanyFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy makes a gaffe while addressing farmers in a French border region, saying he is "in Germany".
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A teenage French boy is rushed to hospital after setting himself on fire at his school, officials in Marseille say.
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TunisiaThe French foreign minister defends her handling of the Tunisian crisis, saying France was as surprised as anyone else.
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A French mansion house that was kept locked up for 100 years has just been opened to the public, in accordance with its owner's last wishes.
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YemenA Yemeni court condemns a man to death for killing a French contractor and sentences in absentia radical preacher Anwar al-Awlaki to 10 years.
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Profile of Marine Le Pen, new leader of France's National Front
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France pledges to overhaul its medical regulatory system after a failure to ban a diabetes drug that may have killed up to 2,000 people.
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France's far-right National Front chooses Marine Le Pen, daughter of veteran leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, as its new head, party sources say.
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French GuianaTwenty-eleven will be the "year of launchers", says the European Space Agency's director-general, as three different rockets start operating out of Europe's French Guiana spaceport.
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Increasing the size of the eurozone bail-out fund is an option being considered, France's finance minister says.
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