Renowned French filmmaker Jean Delannoy has died at the age of 100."Classic French filmmaker Jean Delannoy, who adapted novels by Victor Hugo and Andre Gide and won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize in 1946, has died at age 100, officials said Thursday.Delannoy died...
Ireland has been given four months by the European Union to come up with a plan to save the Lisbon Treaty.I can't imagine that this is really going to make any difference to the original vote - what's to stop them...
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France has become the first country to implement the controversial new law that anyone who persists in illicit downloading of music or films will be barred from broadband access.So a country that has long led the...
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" French President Nicolas Sarkozy opened the conference by promising to more than double French aid to 107 million euros ($166 million) over three years, saying the aim of the donation was to "rid Afghanistan...
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Morocco has given final adieu to its old time hero French fashiondesigner Yves Saint Laurent. Fashion icons ashes have been scattered inhis villa in Moroccan city of Marrakech. Although born in AlgeriaFashion...
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"German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday resolved a major dispute ahead of France`s EU presidency by reaching an unexpected deal over EU plans to reduce car emissions.The two leaders announced the deal at a joint press conference after a...
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" French President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) talks with his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy as they walk on Tunis Bourguiba avenue during a greetings ceremony with Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on April 28, 2008....
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"PARIS - Brigitte Bardot was convicted Tuesday of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France.A Paris court also handed down a $23,325 fine against the former screen...
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Former French screen siren Brigitte Bardot has been convicted of "provoking discrimination and racial hatred" and fined $23,325. Who knows what difference this will actually make, however, given that she has...
Hundreds of thousands of civil servants across France are on a massive strike protesting job cuts. Protesters include teachers, hospital workers, tax officials and government officials. France's...
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Caracas, Venezuela, 30 April 2008. The French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez today at Miraflores Palace in Caracas. On this occasion,...
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It looks like the governments of France and of Paris are working at cross-purposes." The Dalai Lama has been made an honorary citizen of Paris, as anti-French protests continue in China. Paris city council voted...
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Conflicting reports are emerging regarding an alleged French rocket attack on pirate ship off the coast of Somalia: Sarkozy denied claims that anyone was killed in the attack, while eyewitness accounts tell a very...
Twenty thousand students and teachers took to the streets in Paris today to protest against the government's cost-saving reforms that will cut thousands of teaching jobs next year. Police however, were also on the...
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Downing Street has confirmed that Prime Minister Gordon Brown will not be attending the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics."However, he will be at the closing ceremony when the Olympic baton will be passed...
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