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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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NigeriaAl-Qaeda, or an allied group, was probably behind the kidnapping of a French engineer in Nigeria, the French president says.
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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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French police detain a man suspected of attacking three young Jews with a hammer during an assault in the town of Villeurbanne, reports 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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NigerOsama Bin Laden reportedly ties the kidnapping of five French people in Niger to France's treatment of its Muslim minority.
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Police in the western French city of Nantes find three bodies at the house of a missing family of six, reports say.
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A French convict is tried for murdering and eating part of his cell-mate, after being allegedly denied psychiatric help.
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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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A public library in the French city of Nantes discovers a coded manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci.
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The charming face of France's far right National Front
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Police in Paris arrest a 64-year-old man suspected of burgling up to 20 people, usually after feeding them cakes laced with sedatives.
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United KingdomRoy Hodgson is confident his England players will be well prepared for the heat in Donetsk against France on Monday.
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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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MexicoA Mayan sculpture that fetched 2.9m euros ($4.2m, £2.5m) at a Paris auction is a fake, Mexican officials claim.
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ChinaThe discovery in China of a huge hoard of bottles labelled as fine French wine has highlighted the country's problems with fakes.
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ColombiaA Colombian woman claiming to be a Farc rebel says the left-wing guerrilla group is holding missing French journalist Romeo Langlois as a "prisoner of war".
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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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SpainChristians plan protests as a provocative Spanish play about Jesus called Golgota Picnic premieres in the southern French city of Toulouse.
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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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A fuel additive untested in clinical trials was used in breast implants that have since been banned, French radio station RTL reports.
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Twenty gold-coloured bars found in a case on a suburban Paris train have turned out not be be made of gold, police say.
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A man who tricked a family of French aristocrats into fearing for their lives at the hands of freemasons is jailed for eight years in Bordeaux.
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A night train on France's famed SNCF rail network arrives 13 hours late after a series of unfortunate events on the way.
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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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NigerTwo suspected militants were seized in last week's raid which resulted in the deaths of two French hostages in Niger, Niger's security sources reveal.
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SyriaFrench surgeon tells of operating in Syria's besieged city of Homs
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United StatesA US plane bound for Charlotte, North Carolina, makes an early landing in Maine after a woman claims to be carrying a surgically implanted device.
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Defeated French centrist Francois Bayrou declines to back either candidate left in the presidential race.
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Beckham debut a good start to Paris love affair
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Will French President Sarkozy regret courting the media?
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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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Ireland, United KingdomCoach Stuart Lancaster praises England's maturity after their win in Ireland and predicts a massive game against France.
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TunisiaA French satirical magazine names the Prophet Muhammad as "editor-in-chief" for its next issue to mark the electoral win of an Islamist party in Tunisia.
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Why Carla Bruni fell for the French president
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French President Francois Hollande tells the European Parliament there can be no "a la carte" attitude to the EU in an apparent swipe at the UK.
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French model Isabelle Caro, who gained worldwide publicity posing nude for an anti-anorexia campaign while suffering from the illness, dies at 28.
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A French model who posed nude for an anti-anorexia campaign while suffering from the illness herself has died at the age of 28.
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ColombiaColombian officials dismiss demands made by Farc rebels believed to be holding a French journalist in exchange for his release.
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Libya, United KingdomNo decision has been made on whether to deploy UK Apache helicopters to Libya, the government says, contradicting claims by a French minister.
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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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IsraelAn Israeli government investigation concludes a French news report in 2000, which blamed Israeli troops for shooting dead a Palestinian child, was baseless.
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No 10 rejects suggestions of a rift between David Cameron and Francois Hollande ahead of their first talks at the G8 summit in the US.
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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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United KingdomOnly one gun was used in the attack on a British man shot dead with his wife, mother-in-law and a cyclist in the French Alps, police in France say.
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IranFilms about New York folk singers, young lesbian lovers and a tangled French-Iranian family are among the top contenders for the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
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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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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen condemns a reported far right attack on a prominent broadcaster who challenged her on TV.
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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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Segolene Royal, the Socialist Nicolas Sarkozy defeated in France's 2007 presidential poll, says she wants to stand again.
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Police in France discover the car of a man suspected of killing his wife and four children, after five bodies are found at the family home.
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AustraliaA French climber, known as 'Spiderman', is facing charges after scaling a 57-storey building in Australia.
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Alain Robert, the French climber dubbed "Spiderman" for his feats, scales the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
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The prosecutor probing the deaths of three members of a British family in the French Alps tells the BBC there is "still no motive" for the killings.
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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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