News: France

We have started to collect the most important news related to France in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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France: news

Police deployed in Paris suburbs

Friday, October 27th 2006, 20:40
related places: Paris

Extra police are ordered into Paris suburbs a year after two deaths which sparked riots across the country.
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Paris marks riots anniversary

Friday, October 27th 2006, 16:30
related places: Paris

Hundreds march through a Paris suburb in memory of two youths whose deaths sparked riots a year ago.
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French police put on high alert

Friday, October 27th 2006, 4:45

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy orders police to be on maximum alert, on the anniversary of rioting.
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Moroccan bomb plotter jailed

Thursday, October 26th 2006, 16:26
related countries: Morocco, Reunion

A Moroccan man is jailed for nine years over his role in a terror plot to bomb the French island of Reunion.
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The politics of excess in France

Thursday, October 26th 2006, 13:25

As French President Jacques Chirac prepares to step down, Emma Jane Kirby wonders why the French are so indulgent with their politicians.
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Youths torch two buses near Paris

Thursday, October 26th 2006, 9:17
related places: Paris

Masked youths set two buses ablaze in Paris suburbs, one year after a wave of rioting swept French cities.
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Russia queries EU draft on Iran

Thursday, October 26th 2006, 9:09
related countries: China, Iran

Moscow says a draft UN Security Council resolution on Iran seems not to match positions agreed earlier.
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France in Rwanda genocide probe

Tuesday, October 24th 2006, 16:51
related countries: Rwanda

France played an active role in Rwanda's genocide, a former senior Rwandan diplomat tells a tribunal.
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France gears up for April polls

Tuesday, October 24th 2006, 11:58

The French government sets 22 April 2007 as the date for the presidential election.
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Riot warning for France suburbs

Monday, October 23rd 2006, 19:23

The French suburb hit by riots a year ago could once again descent into violence, an intelligence report warns.
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Muslim staff in Paris airport row

Friday, October 20th 2006, 16:21
related places: Paris

Muslim baggage handlers at Charles de Gaulle airport appeal against a security ban on their employment.
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France's Socialists in TV debate

Tuesday, October 17th 2006, 21:55

Contenders for the French Socialists' nomination in next year's presidential poll take part in a TV debate.
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Luxembourg takes rail crash blame

Sunday, October 15th 2006, 14:45
related countries: Luxembourg

A mistake by Luxembourg's state rail company was to blame for last week's crash in France, officials say.
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Armenia memorial stolen in France

Saturday, October 14th 2006, 15:08
related places: Paris

A bronze memorial to the Armenians who died in Ottoman Turkey is stolen from a Paris suburb.
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Ban threatens French lifestyles

Saturday, October 14th 2006, 12:40

Emma Jane Kirby reflects on how France may well seem less French once a smoking ban comes into effect.
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Ariane rocket delivers satellites

Friday, October 13th 2006, 23:42
related countries: French Guiana

Europe's heavy-lift Ariane 5-ECA rocket puts three satellites in orbit after taking off from French Guiana.
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Turkey condemns 'genocide' vote

Thursday, October 12th 2006, 17:42
related countries: Turkey

Turkey criticises a French bill to make it a crime to deny Turks committed genocide against Armenians in 1915.
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French in Armenia 'genocide' row

Thursday, October 12th 2006, 16:32
related countries: Turkey

French MPs pass a bill making it a crime to deny Turks committed genocide against Armenians in 1915.
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France to vote on 'genocide' law

Thursday, October 12th 2006, 6:39
related countries: Turkey

French MPs are to vote on a law making it a crime to deny Turkey committed genocide against Armenians in 1915-17.
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Rescuers comb France crash site

Thursday, October 12th 2006, 5:37

Rescue work continues at the scene of a collision between two trains in France which killed at least five people.
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Five die in French rail collision

Wednesday, October 11th 2006, 22:34

At least five people are killed in a head-on train collision in north-eastern France, but others are still trapped.
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EU members' deficits 'on track'

Tuesday, October 10th 2006, 10:14
related countries: Germany, Greece
related places: Eu

Germany, France, Italy and Greece are all on track to cut their budget deficits below EU limits, a key commissioner says.
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French 'genocide' law condemned

Monday, October 9th 2006, 13:34
related countries: Armenia, Turkey
related places: Eu

An EU official and Turkish ministers urge France to drop a bill outlawing denial of the Armenian "genocide".
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France to ban smoking in public

Sunday, October 8th 2006, 17:26

France is to ban smoking in all public places from next February, the prime minister announces.
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Football: Scotland stun France

Saturday, October 7th 2006, 17:57
related countries: United Kingdom

Gary Caldwell scores as Scotland earn a famous victory over World Cup finalists France.
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Iran pushes France nuclear deal

Tuesday, October 3rd 2006, 13:10
related countries: Iran

Iran suggests France could monitor Iran's nuclear programme, as powers move to consider sanctions.
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Congo burial for explorer Brazza

Tuesday, October 3rd 2006, 12:53
related countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo
related places: Brazzaville, Pierre

The remains of Pierre de Brazza, the founder of modern day Congo, are reburied in Brazzaville.
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France orders Djibouti arrests

Monday, October 2nd 2006, 13:43
related countries: Djibouti

France issues arrest warrants for two top Djibouti officials over the mysterious death of a French judge in 1995.
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NZ rules out new Greenpeace probe

Monday, October 2nd 2006, 9:44
related countries: New Zealand

New Zealand is unlikely to act over claims linking the 1985 Rainbow Warrior sinking to a French presidential hopeful.
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African explorer's body exhumed

Saturday, September 30th 2006, 18:04
related countries: Algeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo
related places: Pierre

The remains of Pierre de Brazza, 19th century French explorer and founder of modern day Congo, are exhumed in Algeria.
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France's Royal seeks presidency

Saturday, September 30th 2006, 14:25

Segolene Royal, a popular Socialist, launches her bid to become France's first woman president.
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Tourists evoke wartime memories

Saturday, September 30th 2006, 12:10
related countries: United Kingdom

British tourists flocking to France bring back memories of another British invasion - as liberators in 1944.
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French critic of Islam in hiding

Friday, September 29th 2006, 23:22

A French teacher who wrote an article critical of Islam has gone into hiding after receiving death threats.
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France urges immigration curbs

Friday, September 29th 2006, 12:45
related places: Eu

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy urges tough, EU-wide rules on dealing with illegal immigration.
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Zero-gravity surgery 'a success'

Wednesday, September 27th 2006, 14:32

Doctors operate successfully on a human in "weightless" conditions, on a flight by a specially adapted plane.
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Paris Hilton faces driving charge

Wednesday, September 27th 2006, 1:48

Paris Hilton is charged with drinking and driving, following her arrest earlier this month in Los Angeles.
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Paris police raid troubled estate

Monday, September 25th 2006, 12:23
related places: Paris

French police arrest nine on a housing estate near Paris where two policemen were beaten up.
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French tourists 'freed' in Yemen

Monday, September 25th 2006, 8:33
related countries: Yemen

Four French tourists abducted in Yemen have been freed, says an MP who has been mediating their release.
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'No evidence' of Bin Laden death

Sunday, September 24th 2006, 4:51
related countries: Saudi Arabia

The Saudi government says it has no evidence Osama Bin Laden is dead after media reports from France.
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Russia in European energy pledge

Saturday, September 23rd 2006, 17:49
related countries: Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to reassure France and Germany about the security of energy supplies.
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Probe into 'Bin Laden death' leak

Saturday, September 23rd 2006, 15:49

President Chirac orders an inquiry into a leaked French intelligence memo claiming Osama Bin Laden had died.
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Ivorian party says troops must go

Friday, September 22nd 2006, 23:19

The ruling party in Ivory Coast calls for the 4,000 French peacekeepers in the country to leave.
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Chirac snubs Sarkozy over crime

Friday, September 22nd 2006, 16:23

The French president defends judges embroiled in a row with Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.
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French arrests over Ivorian waste

Tuesday, September 19th 2006, 11:07

Two senior French officials of the company whose toxic waste was dumped in Ivory Coast are charged.
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Chirac urges no sanctions on Iran

Monday, September 18th 2006, 14:06
related countries: Iran

French President Jacques Chirac says talks, not UN sanctions, are the way to resolve the Iran nuclear crisis.
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