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Fifty arrested ahead of Paris anti-gay marriage rally
Fifty opponents of gay marriage were arrestedin central Paris on late Saturday, police said, on the eve of a major protestagainst a new French law allowing homosexual couples to formally tie the ...
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French Open Focused Bernard Tomic arrives at Roland Garros
France Bernard Tomic claims he has been able to remain focused on his return to tennis at the French Open despite the drama surrounding his father and coach.Tomic appeared at a tour venue on Sunday (AEST) for the first time since John Tomic was charged with assaulting his son's ex-hitting partner, Thomas Drouet, in Madrid earlier this month.The 20-year-old hit the Roland Garros practice ...
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Cannes closes with cliffhanger
Shots fired at Cannes film festival The 2013 Cannes festival wraps up with a cliffhanger, with uncertainty surrounding which film will be declared best picture after a 12-day frenzy of premieres, celebrities, rain and dramatic jewellery thefts. Twenty films packed with sex, violence and emotional anguish are vying at the world's biggest cinema showcase for the Palme d'Or, one of the ...
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France probes Woolwich terror link
President Francois Hollande said the identity of the attacker who stabbed the French soldier in the throat ion Saturday was unknown and warned against jumping to conclusions about the assault in the busy La Defense shopping area. The 23-year-old soldier's injury was not life-threatening, the Interior Ministry said.British soldier Drummer Rigby, 25, was hacked to death in broad daylight in ...
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France says will keep troops in Mali
France has planned to keep a military presence in Mali beyond 2014, the country's defense minister has announced. "Today, there are 3,700 French soldiers in Mali. We said, and the French president repeated it yesterday (Friday) that we will maintain our soldiers in Mali even after the end of this year," Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Saturday. "It will be a ...
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Only Lovers Left Alive Cannes Review
Cannes: Hollywood Gives Back at Star-Filled AmfAR Gala (Column) Vampire stories come in all shapes and sizes and the blessed and afflicted couple here is well-dressed, madly sophisticated, has impeccable taste in music and literature (the couple’s closest friend ...
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Disgraced ex-IMF chief whips up Cannes
DISGRACED ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has sent French media into a frenzy when he appeared on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Jim Jarmusch's vampire tale Only Lovers Left Alive. Strauss-Kahn, who was accompanied by an unidentified woman on Saturday, is said to be separated from his super rich wife of 20 years Anne Sinclair, one of France's best ...
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Cambodian Documentary Wins Cannes Prize for Innovative Cinema
CANNES -- A documentary using small clay figurines to tell the story of how Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh's family perished under the Khmer Rouge regime won the top prize in the second most important competition at ...
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Soldier stabbed in Paris
French authorities are investigating whether the stabbing of a soldier in a Paris suburb was a copycat attack in the wake of a soldier's murder in ...
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Soldier injured in Paris knife attack
A French soldier patrolling a business neighbourhood west of Paris has been stabbed in the neck and injured by a man who fled the scene and is being sought by police, President Francois Hollande said. The 23-year-old was patrolling in uniform with two other soldiers as part of France's Vigipirate anti-terror surveillance plan when he was approached from behind around 6pm and attacked with ...
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Cannes ‘The Immigrant’ stirs emotional response
From left, actors Jeremy tenner, Marion Cotillard and director James Gray arrive for the screening of the film The Immigrant at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 24, 2013. ...
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Roman Polanski shakes Cannes Film Festival
The legendary Polish director Roman Polanski brought the Cannes competition to an end this weekend with a dash of S&M in his new film, Venus in Fur. When the festival ends tonight, Polanski may not win another Palme d'Or to put alongside his prize for his 2002 Holocaust drama The Pianist, but he'll certainly have made one of the best-liked, and raciest, films of this year's ...
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Police search for attacker after French soldier stabbing in Paris
A French soldier has been stabbed in a neck whilst he was patrolling La Defense area of Paris on Saturday. He was on patrol as part of the ‘Vigipirate’ anti-terrorist surveillance plan along with two other colleagues when he was attacked by an unknown man who fled the scene. Though he lost a lot of blood, police say he will survive and is being treated in a nearby hospital. French ...
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French payout case IMF chief named key witness
Christine Lagarde said on Friday a court named her as a key witness in an investigation into a controversial payoff to an outspoken businessman that was arranged while she was ...
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Soldier stabbed on patrol in Paris no link at this stage to London murder
A French soldier on anti-terrorist duties was stabbed in the neck Saturday in an attack that President Francois Hollande said could not "at this stage" be linked to the brutal murder this week of a military man in ...
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Albert Montanes Juan Monaco win French Open tune-up tournaments
France Frenchman Gael Monfils will go into his home grand slam off the back of a loss after going down to Spain's Albert Montanes in the ATP event in Nice.Montanes picked up his sixth career ATP title with a 6-0, 7-6 (73) victory over Monfils, who entered the French Open tune-up tournament on a wild-cart.Elsewhere Juan Monaco downed Finland's Jarkko Nieminen in the final of the ATP ...
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Uniformed soldier stabbed in Paris
Francois Hollande said. The soldier was patrolling in uniform with two other men as part of France's Vigipirate anti-terrorist surveillance plan when he was approached from behind around 6pm and stabbed in the neck with a knife or a box-cutter. Hollande, in the Ethiopian city of Addis Ababa, commented on the stabbing to say that the man was still on the run and police were exploring all ...
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Cannes Philippe Rousselot Awarded Festivals First Cinematography Honor
Ryan Gosling reunites with his "Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn in this bloodbath set in the Bangkok underworld, which premieres in the Cannes ...
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France continues to put safety first
NASCAR returns to FOX at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday. The green flag drops at 6 p.m. ET, with coverage on FOX beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET. In a press conference held at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Saturday, France discussed wide-ranging topics from the Gen-6 car and monitoring drivers' comments on it, to tweaking the schedule to include new tracks or to accommodate drivers who ...
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Million doses of fake aspirin from China seized in France
RENNES, France (AFP) - French customs officers have seized 1.2 million doses of counterfeit aspirin from China, the biggest haul of fake medicines ever in France and the EU, the economy ministry announced Saturday.The goods, seized May 17 in the northwestern port of Le Havre, were hidden in a cargo of tea that arrived from China, the ministry said in a statement. The powder was mostly glucose ...
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Abdullah bin Zayed Laurent Fabius open new French Embassy at Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi
WAM ABU DHABI: H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister has emphasised the UAE's interest in promoting its bilateral relations with France in all spheres. Sheikh Abdullah was speaking at the opening ceremony of the new French Embassy at Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi, in presence of Laurent Fabius, French Foreign Minister. At the ceremony, Sheikh Abdullah and Fabius ...
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French Open comes too soon for the young lions of New Tennis
A little while ago in Paris, John McEnroe shook his head and spluttered when the name Ernests Gulbis was mentioned as a young player who might one day break the grip ...
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French Soldier Stabbed in the Throat While on Patrol Outside Paris
A French soldier was stabbed by a robed assailant while he was on an antiterrorism patrol in a busy commercial district on the western outskirts of Paris. The 23-year-old soldier lost a lot of blood but he was quickly taken to the hospital and his wounds are not life-threatening. Still, the attack "sent a shudder through the French capital" considering it comes mere days after the ...
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Matches to watch on Day 1 of French
Roger Federer’s usual brilliance, as well as the play of challenger Pablo Carreno-Busta, is reason enough to watch his first-day match. (Clive Brunskill/Getty ...
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Cannes Un Certain Regard Prize The Missing Picture Nabs Honor At Festival
From left, actress Zhang Ziyi, jury president Thomas Vinterberg and actress Ludivine Sagnier pose for photographers during a photo-call for the jury of Un Certain Regard at the 66th Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois ...
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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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