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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.
Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme says there should be "no winner" of Lance Armstrong's seven titles.
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United KingdomFishermen are calling for Royal Navy protection after claims they were attacked by French vessels.
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Fishermen are calling for Royal Navy protection after claims they were attacked by French vessels.
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Prosecutors in France say an alleged Islamist terror cell was planning the biggest bomb attack on France since the mid-1990s.
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A woman in south-west France, who mistakenly received a telephone bill of nearly 12 quadrillion euros, has the real amount she owed waived.
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Teacher Jeremy Forrest who was extradited from France after going missing with a 15-year-old girl appears in court to face a child abduction charge.
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French police have found bomb-making materials during an investigation into radical Islamist suspects arrested at the weekend, a prosecutor says.
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French police have found bomb-making materials during an investigation into radical Islamist suspects arrested at the weekend, a prosecutor says.
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Belgium, 
GermanyThe UK, French and German governments are holding talks that will decide whether the merger between defence companies BAE and EADS goes ahead.
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ItalyItalian director Bernardo Bertolucci, of Last Tango in Paris fame, will receive a lifetime achievement honour at the European Film Awards in December.
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MexicoFrance's first lady begins sending care packages to a French woman jailed for 60 years in Mexico for kidnapping.
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United StatesThe 2012 Nobel physics prize goes to two scientists for controlling single particles to yield a picture of the world at the most fundamental level.
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Germany, United KingdomFrance and Germany must reduce their stakes in EADS if the UK is to allow a proposed merger with BAE Systems, the defence secretary says.
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French President Francois Hollande promises the Jewish community a major increase in security after police shot dead a man suspected of targeting a kosher shop.
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Rally de France: Norway's Petter Solberg unhurt after crashing through a vineyard and toppling a telegraph pole.
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Visitors have been flocking to Paris overnight to participate in La Nuit Blanche, where free access is granted to many galleries, museums and monuments.
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A man linked to a grenade attack on a Jewish shop in Paris is killed in a shoot-out with French police during a wave of anti-terror arrests.
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French show has fun with old rock ballads
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Local residents complain that bars are colonising the streets and making it impossible to sleep, but some say they are proof Paris is a dynamic city.
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ChinaA French fashion designer apologises for telling a magazine that Chinese tourists would not be welcome at his new luxury hotel in Paris.
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Beekeepers in northeastern France have been alarmed to find their bees producing honey in unnatural shades of green and blue.
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Why Britain is on a high and France is in depression
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Robert Hall looks inside the labyrinth of tunnels underneath the Somme battlefield in France
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Newcastle cruise to a first Europa League Group D victory as they comfortably beat French side Bordeaux.
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Beekeepers in northeastern France, alarmed to find their bees producing blue and green honey, trace the problem back to a local biogas plant.
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At least 12 members of the police anti-crime squad in the southern French city of Marseille are arrested in an inquiry into corruption.
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United KingdomThe teacher arrested on suspicion of abducting Sussex schoolgirl Megan Stammers can be extradited to the UK, judges in France rule.
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France prepares a bill that would outlaw training in overseas militant camps, months after shootings by a foreign-trained extremist.
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Belgium, United KingdomA 24-hour strike over rail sector reform paralyses the network in Belgium, including high-speed services to London and Paris.
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French first lady Valerie Trierweiler admits she made a mistake sending tweets aimed against President Francois Hollande's former partner.
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French prosecutors drop an investigation into ex-IMF head Dominique Strauss Kahn over an allegation of "gang rape" in Washington.
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Double Olympic gold medal winner Nikola Karabatic is one of 12 French handball players arrested for match-fixing.
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Our daily morning business round-up looks at the main stories in Europe and Asia, including a new 75% tax rate for top earners in France.
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United KingdomHow much do the French care if Britain leaves the EU?
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United KingdomFifteen-year-old Megan Stammers is expected back in the UK later, having sparked an international search after she went to France with her maths teacher.
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French centenarian Robert Marchand has set a record for the fastest 100 kilometres by bicycle for his age.
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The former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing is set to auction the contents of his chateau on Saturday, as he attempts to raise funds to create a foundation in his name.
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A former president auctions his belongings
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The stepfather of Megan Stammers, who was missing with her teacher, says he is 'overjoyed' she has been found safe and well in France.
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Missing schoolgirl Megan Stammers is found in France with teacher Jeremy Forrest, who is in police custody.
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France unveils its budget for 2013, avoiding large austerity spending cuts in favour of higher taxes on the wealthy and big businesses.
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A group of vigilantes evict Roma (Gypsies) from a Marseille housing estate and burn down their camp, French media report.
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France gambles on growth while steel mills cool
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The father of the maths teacher missing in France with teenager Megan Stammers urges him to "please get in contact".
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Reaction to the missing schoolgirl Megan Stammers in France is limited, with the law and media apparently believing she can think for herself.
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ItalyZinedine Zidane's famous head-butt on Italy's Marco Materazzi is immortalised with a five-metre high statue in Paris.
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United KingdomThe first major retrospective of French painter Edouard Manet's portraiture, at London's Royal Academy from January, is expected to be one of 2013's exhibition highlights.
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French unemployment has topped three million for first time since June 1999, as the economy continues to struggle.
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A bronze statue of French football legend Zinedine Zidane's infamous head-butt in the 2006 World Cup final is on display in Paris.
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Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea asks the International Court of Justice to order France to end a corruption inquiry into the oil-rich country's ruling family.
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EgyptAn Egyptian newspaper launches a campaign against the obscene cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by the French magazine, Charlie Hebdo.
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France's top court upholds a conviction against French oil firm Total over the 1999 sinking of the tanker Erika.
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Police believe friends of Megan Stammers, who travelled to France with her maths teacher, might have been aware about her disappearance being planned.
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United KingdomA French court examines the case of a man who allegedly kept a rich family secluded in their chateau and then in England, after warning them that freemasons could kill them.
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A school teacher who is believed to have run away to France with pupil Megan Stammers has been urged to "do the right thing" and contact the police.
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Germany, United KingdomDefence ministers from the UK, Germany, and France are likely to discuss the planned merger of BAE Systems and EADS this week.
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The parents of an East Sussex teenager thought to be in France with a teacher make an emotional appeal as police reveal the pair failed to use their return ferry tickets.
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A 15-year-old Sussex girl who travelled to France is believed to be with a 30-year-old teacher from her school, the BBC understands.
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Police in the southern French city of Marseilles are investigating the 20th murder there in the past nine months.
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GermanyFrench and German leaders mark the 50th anniversary of a key post-WWII reconciliation moment by pledging to maintain strong ties within Europe.
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France's Constitutional Council, a top legal authority, rejects a plea from animal rights campaigners to ban bullfighting.
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A new wing of the Louvre Museum in Paris opens is set to open on Friday, amid ongoing religious tensions over the publication of obscene cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
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A complaint is filed against a French satirical magazine which published obscene cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, accusing it of inciting hatred.
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Security is being stepped up at some French embassies after a satirical magazine publishes obscene cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Security has been increased at France's interests abroad after a French satirical magazine published obscene cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Fashion chain French Connection reports a half-year loss as sales fall during a "very difficult" six months.
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IndiaPictures of former French colony of Pondicherry in India
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A court bans a French magazine from re-publishing topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge and orders it to hand over the originals.
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TogoLoik Le Floch-Prigent, the former French head of the Elf oil company, is charged with involvement in a massive fraud case in Togo.
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Will high taxes make the rich leave and never come back?
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