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

One in three French 'are racist'

Wednesday, March 22nd 2006, 13:47

One third of French people believe they are at least somewhat racist, a survey by a human rights watchdog suggests.
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French worker on spy charges

Wednesday, March 22nd 2006, 9:35
related countries: North Korea

A top South Korean representative of French defence group Thales is arrested on spying charges.
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France votes to open up iTunes

Tuesday, March 21st 2006, 16:51

The French parliament has backed plans to give consumers more choice over music downloads.
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India defends submarine deal

Tuesday, March 21st 2006, 15:07
related countries: India

The Indian government rejects opposition allegations of corruption in a $2bn submarine deal with France.
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Coma case fuels France anger

Tuesday, March 21st 2006, 14:27

The French police response to mass labour protests is under scrutiny as a demonstrator lies in a coma.
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BNP moves closer to Italian deal

Tuesday, March 21st 2006, 10:13
related countries: Italy

France's BNP Paribas moves closer to buying Italy's BNP lender after its bid is approved by the Italian central bank.
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Strike call over French job law

Monday, March 20th 2006, 21:38

French unions and students call a day of strikes on 28 March against a new controversial labour law.
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French PM stands firm on job law

Monday, March 20th 2006, 17:41
related places: Paris

The French prime minister defends his controversial youth labour law, despite a strike ultimatum by unions.
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Riots erupt after French protests

Sunday, March 19th 2006, 5:10

More than 160 people are arrested and 24 injured after rallies against a new French labour law turn violent.
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Job protests grip French cities

Saturday, March 18th 2006, 19:31

Hundreds of thousands of workers and students march in France to protest against a new youth labour law.
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Police battle Sorbonne protesters

Saturday, March 11th 2006, 10:31

French riot police drive protesters from the Sorbonne after a night of protests over a new youth labour law.
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French hostage-taker surrenders

Thursday, March 9th 2006, 20:37

An ex-teacher who held 21 students and two adults hostage at a school in France hands himself in.
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Ex-teacher seizes French students

Thursday, March 9th 2006, 18:39

An armed ex-teacher takes 21 students and two adults hostage at a school in western France.
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French tennis drug father jailed

Thursday, March 9th 2006, 18:33

A French court sentences a man who drugged his children's tennis rivals to eight years in prison.
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French students 'taken hostage'

Thursday, March 9th 2006, 15:46

A former teacher is holding 18 students, a teacher and another man hostage at a school in France.
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French protest at youth job plan

Tuesday, March 7th 2006, 18:23

Tens of thousands of people protest across France against a controversial new youth employment contact.
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Lebanon returns hostage's remains

Tuesday, March 7th 2006, 14:59
related countries: Lebanon
related places: Beirut

A plane carrying the remains of a French hostage kidnapped in Lebanon 20 years ago has left Beirut.
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French Sikhs in turban ban appeal

Tuesday, March 7th 2006, 14:01

Sikhs appeal to the French president over a ruling they must remove their turbans for driver's licence photos.
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UK and France sign carrier deal

Monday, March 6th 2006, 20:13
related countries: United Kingdom

The UK and France sign a deal on aircraft carriers, and urge Europe to strengthen its defence capability.
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Mexico ex-leader's brother tried

Monday, March 6th 2006, 17:56
related countries: Mexico

A brother of ex-Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari goes on trial in France on money-laundering charges.
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Chirac debut in Saudi parliament

Sunday, March 5th 2006, 21:46
related countries: Saudi Arabia
related places: `Arab

France's president becomes the first non-Arab leader to address Saudi Arabia's consultative assembly.
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France seeks to boost Saudi trade

Sunday, March 5th 2006, 0:47
related countries: Saudi Arabia

The French President holds talks with Saudi King Abdullah, in a visit expected to focus on economic relations.
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Murder suspect returns to France

Saturday, March 4th 2006, 17:14

The Ivory Coast sends back to France the chief suspect in a murder case that shocked the French public.
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French murder suspect to return

Friday, March 3rd 2006, 11:00

Ivory Coast's president agrees to extradite the alleged leader of a gang accused of killing a French Jew.
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French 'tennis drugs' trial opens

Wednesday, March 1st 2006, 15:11

The trial of a man accused of drugging his children's tennis rivals, allegedly causing one to die, opens in France.
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French wary of cat bird flu risk

Wednesday, March 1st 2006, 14:58

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin urges cat owners not to let their pets stray into bird flu-hit areas.
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UN chief hails new French air tax

Tuesday, February 28th 2006, 13:04

United Nations chief Kofi Annan shows his support for French plans for a new air tax to boost aid for the poor.
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French murder hearing in Abidjan

Monday, February 27th 2006, 16:43

Extradition hearings begin in Ivory Coast for the alleged leader of a gang accused of killing a French Jew.
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France vaccinates poultry flocks

Monday, February 27th 2006, 15:13
related places: Paris

France starts vaccinating ducks and geese against bird flu, as a vets' summit begins in Paris.
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Paris bomb suspect goes on trial

Monday, February 27th 2006, 14:36
related countries: Algeria
related places: Paris

An Algerian man accused of involvement with bombings in Paris in 1995 goes on trial in France.
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French deal creates energy giant

Monday, February 27th 2006, 11:48

Gaz de France is to acquire Suez, with the French state taking a 34% stake in the merged utility business.
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French protest for murdered Jew

Sunday, February 26th 2006, 18:58
related places: Paris

Tens of thousands march through Paris to protest against anti-Semitism after the murder of a young Jew.
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French energy deal irks Italians

Sunday, February 26th 2006, 16:17
related countries: Italy

Rome criticises a planned merger between two French energy firms, one of them an Italian takeover target.
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French pledge for disease island

Sunday, February 26th 2006, 13:07
related countries: Reunion

French PM Dominique de Villepin offers a package of aid to help its Reunion island fight a crippling epidemic.
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Thriller scoops France's Cesars

Sunday, February 26th 2006, 12:34

Drama De Battre Mon Coeur S'est Arrete takes top honours at France's leading movie awards.
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Chirac urges calm over bird flu

Saturday, February 25th 2006, 17:38

France's President Chirac tries to reassure consumers after the first case of bird flu virus on a French farm.
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France confirms bird flu strain

Saturday, February 25th 2006, 6:19

The first case of the deadly bird flu virus H5N1 on an European Union farm is confirmed in France.
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France holds human bird flu drill

Friday, February 24th 2006, 17:40

France plans for a human bird flu emergency as the EU announces a public awareness campaign.
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Chirac leads Jewish youth service

Thursday, February 23rd 2006, 22:04

French President Jacques Chirac attends a memorial for a Jewish man whose killing shocked the nation.
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Call for Colombia hostage release

Thursday, February 23rd 2006, 17:56
related countries: Colombia

France demands the release of Colombian ex-candidate Ingrid Betancourt on the fourth anniversary of her abduction.
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Suspected bird flu on French farm

Thursday, February 23rd 2006, 16:31
related countries: Germany

France finds a suspected farm case of the deadly strain of bird flu, as a German test on a domestic duck proves negative
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French 'anti-Jew gang chief' held

Thursday, February 23rd 2006, 6:09

The suspected head of an anti-Semitic gang which killed a French Jew is arrested in Ivory Coast.
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Diana paparazzi fined 1 euro

Wednesday, February 22nd 2006, 19:11
related places: Paris

Paparazzi that took pictures of Princess Diana on the night she died are fined 1 euro each by a Paris court.
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France probes Ivorian kidnap link

Tuesday, February 21st 2006, 12:55

French police are going to Ivory Coast in the hunt for a gang boss suspected of an anti-Semitic murder.
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'Racist motive' to French kidnap

Monday, February 20th 2006, 23:50

A Jewish man who died after being kidnapped and tortured may have been the victim of an anti-Semitic attack, French officials say.
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