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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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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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Far-Right activist shoots himself at Notre Dame cathedral
Dominique Venner, a far-Right former activist in France, has committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth in front of the main altar at Notre Dame cathedral in ...
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Ooh aah Eric Cantona shows off prosthetic penis in new film You and The Night at Cannes
, the ex-footballer plays a character known as 'The Stud' who has a prosthetic penis so long that it would provide shade over Old ...
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Cannes 2013 Weekend of a Champion – first look review
Cannes film festival , with a new 10-minute coda added in which the present-day Polanski and Stewart sit in the same Monte Carlo hotel suite where Stewart stayed at the time and chew the fat amiably about their movie, and the way in which motor-racing has changed. The movie has some real archival value and the simple juxtaposition of Polanski and Stewart - the oddest couple in Cannes, surely - ...
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La Dolce Vita plays out with Italian films at Cannes
Tue May 21, 2013 1:13pm EDT * Rome in splendour, Italy in demise in "The Great Beauty" * "A Castle in Italy", 19 other films compete for Palme d'Or By Alexandria Sage CANNES, May 21 (Reuters) - Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty," a nostalgic, melancholic ode to the eternal city Rome, is one of several films that touch on the unraveling of contemporary Italy in ...
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UK drops behind France for credit and debit card fraud for first time
Debit and credit card fraud losses rose 14 percent in the UK last year but that wasn’t enough to stop France deposing it as the top country for plastic crime, analytics ...
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Cannes critics embrace Coen brothers Inside Llewyn Davis
U.S. directors Joel, left, and Ethan Coen pose on Sunday ahead of screening Inside Llewyn Davis at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty ...
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Models Kloss Kurkova and Ambrosio among models getting their gold on for Cannes amfAR gala
This computer-generated image released by Armani shows animated images in the likeness of actors Richard Burton, left, and Elizabeth Taylor, in a gold Armani gown. There will be more gold to come this week at Thursday's amfAR gala, at the Cannes Film Festival which will showcase 40 of the world's top models in "The Ultimate Gold Collection Fashion Show," curated by Carine ...
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Frances Bruni gets personal at Cannes
Franco-Italian director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi relived a painful chapter of her family history in a film presented at Cannes Tuesday in which she cast her real-life mother and ex-lover. Bruni Tedeschi, the elder sister of France's former First Lady Carla Bruni, said her work on "A Castle in Italy" (Un Chateau en Italie) helped heal old wounds. "For me work is a form of ...
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European meat traders need to be licensed-French ministers
* Meat traders should be supervised - French ministers * Call for more EU anti-fraud measures * Fading media focus softens will to reach EU meat label deal By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, May 21 (Reuters) - The European Union should introduce a specific licence for meat traders to prevent frauds such as the one that duped Europeans across the bloc into eating horsemeat labelled as beef ...
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Cannes While Theft Continues to Plague Fest Charity Event Hits the Carlton
In her latest Film Files column, Sharon Swart recaps the recent string of theft to hit the fest, and previews The Heart Fund's dinner at the Carlton Hotel, taking place on ...
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French military rebuild bridge blown up by Islamic fighters in Mali
TASSIGA, Mali - French soldiers in Mali have rebuilt a bridge which was dynamited in January by fighters from an al-Qaida-linked Islamic extremist group. The bridge in the village of Tassiga is close to the Niger border. Fighters from the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa destroyed the bridge to stop the arrival of African troops stationed in Niger, who were entering to help French ...
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Mystery of French submarine disasters can never be unveiled
The death, or rather, sudden disappearance of Eridis submarine of the French fleet stirred heated debate in the world. The tragedy occurred early in the morning on March 4, 1970. Despite the fact that the site of the tragedy was found almost immediately, it took specialists almost two months to find the submarine itself. This is not the only mysterious detail about the ...
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Algerian PM President Recovering in France
ALGIERS -- 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 ordered to take complete rest by his doctors. Since he was rushed to hospital in Paris on April 27 with what was officially described as a minor stroke, Bouteflika has been neither heard nor seen in public, raising ...
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In photos In Cannes Soderberghs Behind the Candelabra takes center stage
Actor Michael Douglas poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Behind the Candelabra at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 21, 2013.(Francois Mori/The Associated ...
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In Coens Cannes hit Oscar Isaac gets his break
CANNES, France -- Joel and Ethan Coen had almost given up on casting the lead for their film "Inside Llewyn Davis." The part, a folk musician in early 1960s Greenwich Village, demanded the elusive combination of someone who could both carry a movie and perform the songs central to the film.Then they met Oscar Isaac."It just didn't happen until he walked in the room," ...
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France Drugmaker on trial suspected in deaths
NANTERRE, France -- A French drug company and its founder are on trial on charges of misleading the public about a diabetes drug marketed as a weight loss method and suspected in hundreds of deaths.But after years of delays in one of France's biggest recent health scandals, the proceedings could still be pushed back further.Between 1976 and 2009, around 5 million people took Mediator, ...
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France to Open Visa Centers in 5 Russian Cities
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - France will open visa centers in five Russian cities by the end of June 2013, the French Consulate General in Russia reported Tuesday. "During his visit to Moscow in February 2013, French President Francois Hollande pledged to simplify as much as possible the visa application conditions for Russian nationals," the consulate said in a statement. "In ...
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Gallery Hunger Games crew pose for cameras at Cannes
Actress Jennifer Lawrence attends the photocall for ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ at The 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Majestic Hotel on May 18, 2013 in Cannes, ...
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Top seeds crash out in Strasbourg
STRASBOURG, France – Top-seeded Marion Bartoli and No. 2 Tamira Paszek were both eliminated from the first round of the Strasbourg International on ...
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Liberace film throws spotlight on gay rights at Cannes festival
Tue May 21, 2013 10:50am EDT * Liberace biopic explores relationship with young lover * Film puts spotlight on gay rights, same sex marriage * Steven Soderbergh says now taking a break from filmmaking By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES, May 21 (Reuters) - The relationship between the flamboyant pianist Liberace and his young lover dazzled at the Cannes film festival on Tuesday and threw the spotlight ...
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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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