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Frances First Gay Wedding An Historic Oui
Gay parade in Montpellier After all, the "tout premier marriage homo" in France is an historic event and the city of Montpellier, where the wedding will be celebrated, wants to send a clear signal to the rest of the country. Vincent and Bruno will be the first gay couple to be legally married in France since President François Hollande signed the "marriage for all" ...
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Top seeds ousted at WTAs Strasbourg International
Virginie Razzano, shown at last year's French Open, had one of the four upsets in Tuesday's play at the WTA's Strasbourg International tennis tournament. UPI/David ...
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Research and Markets ICT Market Report 201213 France
"ICT Market Report 2012/13 France" report to their offering. This report provides the reader with an intimate understanding of the development and trends of the French ICT market. The bi-annual European Information Technology Observatory (EITO) market reports have built a strong reputation as indispensible source of information for marketing, consulting, policy analysis. ...
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Algerias Bouteflika convalescing in France
Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika listens to the speech of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi at the start of the third European Union-Africa summit in Tripoli November 29, ...
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Algerias president recovering in undisclosed location after leaving Paris military hospital
PARIS - Officials say Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has left the French military hospital where he has been treated for nearly a month and transferred to another facility. Tuesday's brief statement by the defence ministry health service said Bouteflika "left Val-de-Grace hospital today to go to another establishment to continue his recovery." The statement didn't ...
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Abu Dhabi Investment Forum starts Wednesday in Paris as the emirate seeks foreign partnerships with a purpose
ABU DHABI, May 21st, 2013 (WAM): Abu Dhabi Investment Forum will start tomorrow in Paris, France, bringing together business and government leaders and decision makers from the UAE and France. The Forum will be opened by Nasser Ahmed Alsuwaidi, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED) which hosts the event. "We welcome French business. That's the ...
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Cannes rolls out red carpet for Indian movies on 100th birthday
CANNES--Indian cinema is being feted in Cannes on its 100th birthday. But amid the celebrations, the B-word -- "Bollywood" -- remains ...
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French Filmmaker Americans Too Stupid To Realize Women Fantasize About Being Prostitutes
the creative point of his film (we’ll get to that). But let’s start with his thesis about why women, more than men, will understand his film about a luscious teenage girl exploring the ‘fantasy’ of ...
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UPDATE 2-Algerias Bouteflika convalescing in France
Tue May 21, 2013 3:38pm EDT * Speculation about health since rushed to hospital in Paris * France says Bouteflika still in France (Adds statement by French army's medical wing) By Myra MacDonald ALGIERS, May 21 (Reuters) - Algeria's prime minister, reacting to reports that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seriously ill, said the 76-year-old was recovering in France but had been ...
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Frances 100 tax rate
Well, America's rich, the fiscal cliff compromise that bumped the top effective income tax rate from 35% to 39.6% could have been a lot worse. The deal could have taken all of it and more. That's what happened in France, ...
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Christine Lagarde jets back to Paris to be questioned over Tapie payout
Christine Lagarde and Bernard Tapie are at the centre of a legal investigation into alleged complicity in embezzlement of public funds and abuse of power over a multimillion euro state payout that could expose the unhealthy friendships between high French politics and the world of business.Lagarde will jet back to Paris on Thursday to be questioned by court judges, hoping to clear her name in a ...
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Cannes Weinstein Co. Picks Up Reeves-Witherspoon Space Romance Passengers
Cannes Film Festival 2013 The company has committed to a multi-million dollar guarantee and will spend a minimum $25 million on marketing the release. Developed by Reeves ...
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Cannes Roger L. Simon to Pen The Future of Now
. "We are very excited to work with such a smart, seasoned, and talented writer such as Roger on this project," said Golubovich. "We developed this idea observing the American news media and power structure from my international perspective, and the notion of idealism gone awry." Just days earlier at the fest, Primeridian announced its first feature, based on the life ...
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Steven Soderberghs Too-Gay Liberace Movie Has Arrived at Cannes
in competition go almost unnoticed, overshadowed by a festival scandal or lost in the hype surrounding another movie in the line-up. Such was the fate of Valria Bruni Tedeschi's Un chateau en Italie (A Castle in Italy), the third French film in the main slate ...
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Miike’s gore-filled flick panned at Cannes
CANNES DO ATTITUDE: Actors Takao Osawa (left) and Nanako Matsushita, and director Takashi Miike, arrive Monday for the screening of the film 'Shield of Straw' ('Wara no Tate') at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in France. | ...
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Liberace Film Spotlights Gay Rights at Cannes
CANNES -- The relationship between the flamboyant pianist Liberace and his young lover dazzled at the Cannes film festival on Tuesday and threw the spotlight on gay rights at the movie industry's largest annual gathering. Director Steven Soderbergh said he struggled five years ago to secure funding for "Behind the Candelabra" because some financiers thought the film would only ...
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AP Photos Fashion captured by Cannes cameras
FILE - This May 19, 2013 file photo shows actress Jane Fonda wearing a purple-hued Badgley Mischka off-the-shoulder gown as she arrives for the screening of the film Inside Llewyn Davis at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, ...
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France Tel to invest up to 50 million euro in Dailymotion report
PARIS | Tue May 21, 2013 2:43pm EDT PARIS (Reuters) - France Telecom plans to invest between 30 and 50 million euros ($64 million) in its video-sharing website Dailymotion and begin a fresh search for a partner in the autumn, its chief executive said on Tuesday. Stephane Richard also said in an interview with RTL radio that "the door is not closed" to Yahoo Inc, which had been ...
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Sorrentino Bruni Tedeschi bring Italy to Cannes
CANNES, France -- La dolce vita came to Cannes on Tuesday, thanks to a pair of films set in Italy exploring lives of affluent ennui.Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty" and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's "A Castle in Italy" both feature wealthy characters whose lives have an emptiness at their center.Bruni Tedeschi - the only woman among the 20 directors competing for ...
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Toback Baldwin eye Cannes movie-making underbelly
CANNES, France -- A phrase you will hear often at Cannes is: "Let me run the numbers."The commercial underbelly of the Cannes Film Festival is a nonstop frenzy of deal-making in luxury hotels along the Croisette promenade and aboard yachts moored offshore. Films are pitched with various ingredients - a director, a script, a few stars - as agents and talent pursue international ...
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World Brief | Europe Right-Wing Writer Kills Himself in Notre-Dame in Paris
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French Historian Commits Suicide Inside Notre Dame Cathedral
France's Senate Passes Same-Sex Marriage Law; Could Be Legalized by Mid-Year French historian Dominique Venner reportedly entered the iconic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Tuesday at 4 p.m. local time, approached the main altar and fatally shot himself with an automatic pistol before collapsing on the altar. The 78-year-old award-winning historian, described as "far-right" and ...
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Cannes Melbournes Movie Market Secures Four More Years
A part of the Melbourne International Film Festival, the market gets part of a $5.1 million state government support package from the Australian state government of ...
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Tennis Murray out of French Open
Andy Murray withdrew from the French Open on Tuesday because of a chronic back injury and will now focus on preparing for the start of the grass-court season next month. The US Open champion met with specialists this week after being forced to pull out of his second-match against Marcel Granollers of Spain at the Italian Open last Wednesday because of the long-standing complaint. "It's a really ...
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Tennis Erakovic in first round exit ahead of French Open
New Zealand No 1 Marina Erakovic insists her confidence hasn't been dented by a poor run of results heading into the French Open. Erakovic has been beaten 6-7 6-3 7-6 by Romanian fifth seed Monica Niculescu in the first round of the Strasbourg WTA tournament. She has won only one singles match in seven tournaments since capturing her maiden WTA title in February but says the ...
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Paris has one of the largest and most emulated bike-sharing systems in the world
Paris is becoming ever more eco-friendly with bike-sharing becoming the major fad of daily commuters and public transport users. The system is so popular, major expansion plans have been announced.
Paris is already home to the largest bicycle-sharing system in the world, but the corporation set up to manage the city’s most eco-friendly form of public transport, Velib, has extensive expansion plans for the network, which is also one of the most copied in the world. Read more
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