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

France on riot alert for holiday

Friday, November 11th 2005, 13:03

France is braced for a tense Armistice Day holiday after two weeks of rioting.
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Paris rallies banned in riot fear

Friday, November 11th 2005, 16:53
related places: Paris

All public meetings likely to provoke disturbances are to be banned on Saturday in Paris, French police say.
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Super-rocket's next critical test

Saturday, November 12th 2005, 9:05
related countries: French Guiana

Europe's most powerful rocket to date, the Ariane 5-ECA, is set to blast off from French Guiana.
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Riot erupts in French city centre

Sunday, November 13th 2005, 4:38

Lyon sees the first riots in a major French city centre during two weeks of unrest, despite tough new controls.
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Curfew fails to stop French riot

Sunday, November 13th 2005, 10:14
related places: Lyon

Lyon sees the first riots in a major city centre in France, despite tough new controls on the 17th night of unrest.
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Riot-hit Lyon bans public meeting

Sunday, November 13th 2005, 17:03
related places: Lyon

The French city of Lyon bans public gatherings in the centre following overnight rioting by gangs of youths.
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EU offers France aid after riots

Monday, November 14th 2005, 4:30

The European Union offers France 50m euros to help recover from the riots as police report a fall in violence.
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France seeks to extend crisis law

Monday, November 14th 2005, 18:55

The French cabinet is to ask parliament to extend state of emergency powers into 2006 as suburban rioting continues.
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Chirac in new pledge to end riots

Tuesday, November 15th 2005, 10:11

The French leader vows to create new opportunities for young people, saying France faces "a crisis of identity".
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Tunis media attack alarms France

Tuesday, November 15th 2005, 17:40
related countries: Tunisia

France calls on Tunisia to uphold press freedoms after an attack on French media ahead of a UN internet summit.
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France MPs back riot powers

Tuesday, November 15th 2005, 20:32

The French parliament backs a three-month extension of emergency powers to curb urban rioting.
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France extends laws to curb riots

Wednesday, November 16th 2005, 20:57

The French parliament approves a three-month extension of emergency laws aimed at curbing riots.
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Heavy-lift Ariane flies skyward

Wednesday, November 16th 2005, 23:57
related countries: French Guiana
related places: Kourou

Europe's most powerful rocket - the Ariane 5-ECA - has launched from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.
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Algerian to be extradited from UK

Thursday, November 17th 2005, 10:51
related countries: Algeria, United Kingdom
related places: Paris

An Algerian man, wanted in connection with bombings in Paris, can be extradited to France, a UK court decides.
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French violence 'back to normal'

Thursday, November 17th 2005, 11:23

Police in France say "a normal situation" has returned across the country following three weeks of urban rioting.
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France 'needs ethnic statistics'

Friday, November 18th 2005, 19:18

The French equal opportunities minister calls for a ban on data based on ethnicity to be scrapped.
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Paris protest at public sell-offs

Saturday, November 19th 2005, 20:34
related places: Paris

Up to 30,000 people rally in the French capital, Paris, against government plans to privatise public sector companies.
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French Socialists find consensus

Sunday, November 20th 2005, 16:39

France's opposition Socialists put internal divisions aside to agree on a motion outlining the future of the party.
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Thousands guard nuclear shipment

Sunday, November 20th 2005, 17:55
related countries: Germany

Thousands of police guard a controversial nuclear waste train as it crosses into Germany from France.
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EDF shares due to start trading

Monday, November 21st 2005, 7:31
related places: Paris

Shares in state-owned French power company EDF are scheduled to start trading in Paris on Monday.
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Strike cripples French railways

Monday, November 21st 2005, 20:56

Unions in France begin a strike on the country's rail network, halting services in protest at possible privatisation.
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Rappers blamed for French riots

Thursday, November 24th 2005, 15:42

A French politician accuses rappers of fuelling recent unrest with violent lyrics - a claim backed by 200 MPs.
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French MPs back surveillance plan

Thursday, November 24th 2005, 17:23

Plans to boost video surveillance in public places are approved by the French parliament in an initial vote.
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Rap 'not cause of French riots'

Friday, November 25th 2005, 11:29

French PM Dominique de Villepin dismisses claims that rap music fuelled recent rioting in poor suburbs.
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France dampens hope of trade deal

Monday, November 28th 2005, 11:57
related countries: Hong Kong

France's trade minister expresses doubts about any major breakthrough at global trade talks in Hong Kong next month.
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Paris hotels fined for collusion

Monday, November 28th 2005, 18:25
related places: Paris

Six of Paris' most prestigious hotels are fined for sharing commercial information, keeping prices artificially high.
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French MPs back anti-terror bill

Tuesday, November 29th 2005, 21:33

The French parliament's lower house approves a tough anti-terror bill that would boost video surveillance.
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French held over Ivorian's death

Tuesday, November 29th 2005, 23:22

Four French soldiers, including a colonel, are detained over the suffocation of a prisoner in Ivory Coast.
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Woman has first face transplant

Wednesday, November 30th 2005, 17:46

Surgeons in France have carried out the first face transplant, it has been revealed.
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French mobile phone firms fined

Thursday, December 1st 2005, 8:05

Three of France's largest mobile phone firms are fined a total of 534m euros for distorting competition.
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Six cleared over French child sex

Thursday, December 1st 2005, 22:49

A French appeals court acquits six people who had been wrongly convicted of child sex abuse in 2004.
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Face op patient 'said thank you'

Friday, December 2nd 2005, 12:48

The first patient to undergo a face transplant thanks her doctors after coming round from surgery.
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French engineer 'seized in Iraq'

Monday, December 5th 2005, 11:53
related countries: Iraq
related places: Baghdad

A French man working on Iraqi water treatment projects is kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
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French target 'Islamic network'

Monday, December 12th 2005, 12:47
related places: Paris

French police investigating suspected plans for attacks in France arrest at least 20 people during raids in Paris.
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'Progress' on bird flu vaccine

Thursday, December 15th 2005, 8:42

French drug company Sanofi Pasteur says it has made progress in developing a prototype vaccine against a human version of bird flu.
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Arrested men 'had Zarqawi link'

Thursday, December 15th 2005, 10:47
related countries: Iraq

French police make three new arrests after suspects held in earlier raids are linked to the Iraq insurgency leader.
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Tennis: 8-year ban for Puerta

Wednesday, December 21st 2005, 14:07
related countries: Argentina

French Open finalist Mariano Puerta of Argentina is banned for eight years after failing a drugs test.
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French lawsuit over CIA flights

Wednesday, December 21st 2005, 17:04

Two Paris-based human rights groups take legal action over alleged CIA prisoner flights landing in France.
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Brazil pays Paris Club debt early

Friday, December 23rd 2005, 7:10
related countries: Brazil

Brazil announces another early repayment of international debt - this time to the Paris Club of creditor nations.
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French row over charity pork soup

Friday, December 23rd 2005, 20:33
related places: Nice

A charity run by a far-right group in Nice causes anger by serving the homeless pork soup, which Muslims and Jews do not eat.
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Duke buys flea markets in Paris

Saturday, December 24th 2005, 14:47
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Paris

The UK's third richest man the Duke of Westminster adds two Paris flea markets to his portfolio.
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French sex inquiry 'must be open'

Monday, December 26th 2005, 16:15

Thirteen people jailed falsely for child abuse in France demand an open inquiry into the scandal.
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French hostage 'shown in video'

Wednesday, December 28th 2005, 22:02
related countries: Iraq

An Iraq militant group releases a video apparently showing a French hostage and threatens to kill him.
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Sarkozy call to help minorities

Thursday, December 29th 2005, 8:36

Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy says he wants the law to ensure equal opportunities in France.
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Britons die in France road crash

Friday, December 30th 2005, 16:05

Two Britons are killed in northern France after their car runs off a motorway in icy conditions.
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Plea for Frenchman held in Iraq

Friday, December 30th 2005, 17:20
related countries: Iraq

The family of a French engineer abducted in Iraq appeals for his release on Arabic satellite TV.
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Asbestos ship 'can sail to India'

Friday, December 30th 2005, 18:23
related countries: India

A French judge says a warship lined with asbestos can be dismantled in India, rejecting green objections.
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Bouteflika returns after surgery

Saturday, December 31st 2005, 17:14
related countries: Algeria

Large crowds greet Algerian President Bouteflika as he arrives home after hospital treatment in France.
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French fight New Caledonia fires

Sunday, January 1st 2006, 15:50
related countries: Aruba, New Caledonia

French and Australian firefighters fly in to tackle forest fires blazing for a week in New Caledonia.
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Asbestos ship on its way to India

Tuesday, January 3rd 2006, 12:14
related countries: India

A French aircraft carrier lined with asbestos heads for an Indian breaker's yard despite protests.
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France lifts state of emergency

Wednesday, January 4th 2006, 1:43

France lifts a state of emergency introduced in November at the height of the country's worst riots for more than 40 years.
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Troubled France still ill at ease

Wednesday, January 4th 2006, 16:55

Lifting of the state of emergency in France does not mean the sense of alienation in the suburbs has been addressed, Caroline Wyatt writes.
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French fugitive 'regrets actions'

Wednesday, January 4th 2006, 17:42
related places: Paris

A French woman arrested 24 years after she fled into exile after a Paris bank robbery admits she was involved.
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Chirac plans end to colonial law

Wednesday, January 4th 2006, 17:59

Jacques Chirac says a controversial law on the teaching of France's colonial past will be overturned.
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Football: Man U aim for Evra

Friday, January 6th 2006, 12:36

Monaco defender Patrice Evra will have a medical at Man Utd on Monday before completing a £5.5m deal.
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France's 'pursuit of harmony'

Saturday, January 7th 2006, 12:25

President Chirac is talking reform in France - but does this damage the government's commitment to national harmony, asks Allan Little.
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Morales seeks support from France

Saturday, January 7th 2006, 19:05
related places: Paris

Bolivia's President-elect Evo Morales holds talks with French President Jacques Chirac in Paris.
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French hostage released in Iraq

Sunday, January 8th 2006, 7:49
related countries: Iraq

A French water engineer, Bernard Planche, who was kidnapped in December in Iraq, is released.
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Egypt grants 'toxic' ship passage

Sunday, January 15th 2006, 22:50
related countries: Egypt
related places: Suez Canal

Egypt says a former French warship can pass through the Suez Canal despite Greenpeace protests.
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France plans rail police patrols

Monday, January 16th 2006, 11:12

France is introducing patrols on trains by a new railway police force to clamp down on hooliganism.
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France 'would use nuclear arms'

Thursday, January 19th 2006, 12:56

President Jacques Chirac says France could respond with nuclear weapons to a terrorist attack.
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French bird flu case is negative

Sunday, January 22nd 2006, 21:37
related countries: Turkey

A French woman tested for bird flu after returning from Turkey does not have the disease, health officials say.
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Corruption trial opens in France

Tuesday, January 24th 2006, 6:34
related places: Paris

Forty-nine people go on trial accused of taking bribes when President Jacques Chirac was mayor of Paris.
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French crackdown on 'racist soup'

Wednesday, January 25th 2006, 4:11

Charities are barred from handing out pork soup to the homeless, so as not to offend Muslims and Jews.
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Chirac tricked by Canadian hoax

Saturday, January 28th 2006, 0:37
related countries: Canada

Radio hoaxers trick French President Jacques Chirac into thinking he is talking to the new Canadian leader.
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Haiti gang frees French nationals

Saturday, January 28th 2006, 11:02
related countries: Haiti

Three French citizens and their local driver who were abducted in Haiti are released unharmed, say police.
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French troops to help fight virus

Sunday, January 29th 2006, 1:57
related countries: India, Indian Ocean, Reunion

France is deploying 400 troops to fight a mosquito-borne virus on its island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean.
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Mittal makes French jobs pledge

Monday, January 30th 2006, 14:44

Mittal Steel says it will not be cutting jobs in France if its controversial takeover bid for rival Arcelor is agreed.
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Chirac names slavery memorial day

Monday, January 30th 2006, 15:07

France will hold a day of remembrance for the victims of slavery every 10 May, says President Jacques Chirac.
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France joins Muslim cartoon row

Wednesday, February 1st 2006, 12:55
related countries: Denmark

A French paper reproduces the Danish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad which have sparked Muslim outrage.
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