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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.
MalaysiaFrench climber Alain Robert, known as Spiderman, climbs one of the world's tallest buildings in Malaysia.
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Caroline Wyatt is determined to find out how the French stay so enviably slim.
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France arrests a researcher at Europe's top particle physics lab who is suspected of links to al-Qaeda, officials say.
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AustraliaA French man suspected of plotting terror attacks in Australia is found guilty of links to terrorist groups.
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French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde warns the bailed-out banks created by the financial crisis could abuse their power.
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Inside the murder trial of a French gang leader
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United StatesUS President Bush hosts his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, for informal talks at his family home in Maine.
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The woman urging France to roll up its sleeves and work
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French media concerned by Socialist Party vote
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SpainA second Spanish policeman has died after being shot in France by suspected Basque separatist militants.
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The suspected head of Basque separatist group Eta is put under formal investigation after his arrest in France, sources say.
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A teenager in France suspected of planning to shoot his teachers is charged with attempted murder and released on bail.
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Four people are dead after being swept away by an avalanche in the French Alps, according to reports.
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SpainSuspected political head of Basque separatists, Eta, is arrested in France, Spanish authorities say.
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United KingdomTwo British men are arrested in France after customs officers find a record 684kg (1,507lbs) of cocaine inside their lorry.
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CameroonOne of a group of 10 mostly French hostages seized off Cameroon has been killed in a rescue bid, a militia leader says.
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Defeated French centrist Francois Bayrou declines to back either candidate left in the presidential race.
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SpainFour suspected Basque separatists, including a key bomb-maker, are held in France, Spanish officials say.
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ChinaAn 18th-Century jade Imperial seal is sold for 1.68m euros (£1.5m) at auction in Paris, despite protests by Beijing.
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Saudi ArabiaThe Saudi government says it has no evidence Osama Bin Laden is dead after media reports from France.
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MexicoThe Mexican President, Felipe Calderon says a French woman convicted of kidnapping will serve her 60-year sentence in Mexico.
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SyriaIsrael's Ehud Olmert and Syria's Bashar al-Assad will come face to face next month in Paris, says France's foreign minister.
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TurkeyFrench police arrest 13 Turkish Kurds on suspicion of helping to finance guerrillas of the PKK.
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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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AfghanistanImages from Afghanistan spark anger in France
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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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The fossilised skull of an "extremely rare" steppe mammoth has been discovered in southern France.
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NigerA French reporter accused of illegally filming Niger rebels appears in court, where he faces the death penalty.
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A new survey has found that hotel owners view French tourists as the meanest and rudest in the world.
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French Justice Minister Rachida Dati comes under fire for returning to work five days after giving birth to a baby girl.
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IranThe UN has no reason to delay new sanctions on Iran if it does not answer concerns over its nuclear programme, France says.
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IndiaThe former SS France cruise liner can be scrapped in India, an official says, despite environmentalists' protests.
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The probation officer whose team supervised killer Dano Sonnex speaks of his "utter regret" at the murders of two French students.
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United KingdomA UK officer who trained French Resistance fighters during World War II was told to "go home" by Charles de Gaulle, files show.
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ChinaTwo 18th-Century statues claimed by China are sold at the Paris auction of late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent's collection.
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Was Paris 68 a real revolution - or rich kids having fun?
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Seventy-one people on a commuter train are injured after a train hits the buffers at a Paris railway station.
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The first draft of a new EU treaty can now be read in French and English, but what it means for the EU's half a billion people is not yet easy to determine.
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An Airbus A380 super-jumbo lands back in France to complete its first test flight with passengers.
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GermanyFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy calls for urgent action to get the EU out of its "paralysis", on his first trip.
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AfghanistanTen French soldiers die in fighting east of Kabul in one of the heaviest losses suffered by peacekeepers in Afghanistan.
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AfghanistanThree French soldiers are killed in a violent storm in north-eastern Afghanistan, the French military says.
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African leaders congratulate the French president-elect, but there is uncertainty over future ties.
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Algeria, 
Democratic Republic of the CongoThe remains of Pierre de Brazza, 19th century French explorer and founder of modern day Congo, are exhumed in Algeria.
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Over 40 African illegal immigrants enter the fourth week of a hunger strike in Limoges, central France.
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