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Indian film stars flourish at Cannes Festival
Familiar faces from the Indian screen have descended on Cannes for a gala dinner to mark the centenary of their country’s movie industry. The largest contingent of stars from the world’s most productive film industry have travelled to the world’s leading cinema showcase on the French Riviera to promote their work. ';Lunchbox'; is one of four Indian films being ...
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French spiderman Jean-Michel Casanova scales 172-meter tall elevator in Hunan
French rock climber Jean-Michel Casanova climbs the 172-meter tall metal elevator frame in Zhangjiajie, a scenic spot in Central China's Hunan province, May 18, 2013.(Photo/ ...
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World Disgraced French minister bows out
Paying his debts He initially denied a report by an investigative website that he had an undeclared Swiss bank account until 2010. But after a meeting with investigating magistrates in April, he admitted to having the account, which contained about 600,000 euros (509,000; $770,000). He told the Depeche newspaper he had transferred the funds to France: he would pay his debts to the state and turn ...
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UPDATE 2-French food group Danone takes second chance with China Mengniu
Mon May 20, 2013 1:15am EDT * JV and Mengniu investment worth $417 million * Deal is latest move to restore confidence * Mengniu shares hit 17-month high (Adds analyst comment, details on China dairy market) By Donny Kwok HONG KONG, May 20 (Reuters) - Danone Group has agreed to invest 325 million euros ($417 million) in two deals with China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd, marking a comeback for the ...
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Seduced and Abandoned Director James Toback on Turning the Cameras on Cannes
"I hope I'm not guilty of a horrifying amount of megalomania," says the director, who talks working with Alec Baldwin and meeting Russian billionaires in the Palais men's ...
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Cannes Kurt Russell Peter Sarsgaard to Star in Bone Tomahawk
PHOTOS: Radiant 'X-Men' Star Fan Bingbing Honored at Glittery Cannes Fest The movie follows an outlaw who unknowingly leads a band of cannibalistic Troglodytes into the peaceful western town of Bright Hope. When the monsters kidnap several settlers a small rescue party journey into hell to try and rescue them. 2929 Entertainment has come on board to fully finance the project. ...
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Cannes Catching Fire Star Sam Claflin Joins Lone Sherfigs Posh
Cannes Film Festival 2013 The story is set amongst the privileged elite of Oxford University and follows two first year students determined to join the infamous Riot Club where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single ...
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French Unhappy with Economy Minister Performance
Paris, May 20 (Prensa Latina) With the country in recession and the constant increase of unemployment, currently affecting over 3.22 million people, most French are unhappy with the performance of Minister of Economy and Finances, Pierre Moscovici, according to a survey released by Journal du Dimanche. At least 70 percent of people polled disapproved of the ...
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France Children Killings Briton Due In Court
A British man is due to be brought before a court in France where he is expected to be formally charged with the murders of his two children. The man, named by the Foreign Office as Julian Stevenson, was held after the bodies of his daughter, five, and 10-year-old son were found by police in his flat in Saint-Priest, a suburb of Lyons. Their throats had been ...
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One more French soldiers killed in Mali Elysee
PARIS, April 29 (Xinhua) -- A French soldier was killed on Monday in northern Mali, bringing the total death toll of French servicemen in the conflict-torn country to six since French forces started a military operation in January, the Elysee Palace said. French President Francois Hollande expressed in an online statement "his great sadness" for the death of one more French soldier in ...
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Indias new generation of filmmakers feted at Cannes
CANNES, France (AFP) - Unashamedly escapist, with wafer-thin plots and cheesy dialogue, all punctuated by exuberant song and dance routines, Bollywood musicals are beloved by millions despite the critics' reservations.But India's biggest star Amitabh Bachchan, in Cannes this week for a celebration of Indian cinema at the Riviera film fest, admitted he prefers not to use the word ...
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Gay marriage legal In France
People at the forum organized by the IDAHO (International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia) in Paris, France, May 18, 2013. [Photo: ...
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Nadal Serena set out stall for French Open
Spain’s Rafael Nadal bites the trophy as he poses for photographers after defeating Switzerland’s Roger Federer at the final match of the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Nadal won 6-1, 6-3. AP Photo/Andrew Medichini ROME – Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams fired warning shots to their French Open rivals with comprehensive victories over Roger ...
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Stars arrive for screening of Inside Llewyn Davis in Cannes
US actor Justin Timberlake (front) arrives for the screening of American film Inside Llewyn Davis in competition at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, May 19, 2013. (Xinhua/Gao ...
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Eva goes commando at Cannes bares all
A SKY-high split, a drizzly day and an absent pair of knickers was not a winning combination for Eva Longoria at the Cannes Film ...
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The Brief - QA with Cannes Young Lions Winners
This week Maddie Ross takes you to the Cannes Young Lions Awards to chat with the winners of this prestigious advertising competition. Featuring media category winners Paul Den and Kristine Ballensky from UM, print winners Josie Fox and Sara Oteri from CumminsRoss, film winners Omid Amidi and Michael Ashton of DDB Sydney, digital winners Liam Riddler and Alex Boderoff of 303Lowe, and ...
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France posts 2 fall in Aprils new registered firms
(MENAFN) The French national statistics bureau Insee stated that the number of new companies registered in April fell by 2 percent from a month before to 46,432, reported Xinhua News.The agency said that from a year earlier, the figure dropped by 2.2 percent.Insee attributed the decline to an unfavorable economic and investment conditions.Several sectors posted decreases in the number of new ...
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British man admits killing his children in France
Police arrested the 48-year-old unemployed man on Saturday after the bodies of his daughter and son were found at his apartment in Saint-Priest, a suburb of ...
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Israel rejects France 2 findings on Dura affair
Israel said on Sunday a France 2 television report seen worldwide on the death of a Palestinian child in 2000 was "baseless", following an analysis of the raw footage. The report, bolstering the Israeli political and military stance on the Mohammed al-Dura affair, comes ahead of a ruling in Paris on a defamation case between France 2 reporter Charles Enderlin and Philippe Karsenty, ...
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Burnside aid Campbelltown councils turn to Paris London and Barcelona for Magill makeover inspiration
PARIS, London and Barcelona are being put up as inspiration for a project to revitalise Magill. Burnside and Campbelltown councils are working on a joint project to make Magill an artistic and cultural hub and thriving shopping destination. The project is the pilot for the Federal Government's Liveable Cities program. The councils engaged consultants Complete Urban to create a vision for the ...
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Some wealthy households in France paid more in tax than they earned
French President Franois Hollande's Socialist government imposed the tax surcharge last year, shortly after taking office, to offset the impact of a rebate scheme created by its conservative predecessor. (BENOIT ...
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Cannes Market Nightlife Bustles Despite Torrential Rains
In her latest Film Files column, Sharon Swart visits THR's Martinez hotel soiree, appraises the "Hunger Games" beachside bash and catches up with Adrien Brody, who says: "This is a vacation, so to ...
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Pedrosa wins in France takes MotoGP lead
France Honda's Dani Pedrosa won the French MotoGP at Le Mans on Monday morning from Cal Crutchlow to take the lead in the world championship standings.The Spaniard, following up his win in Spain last time out, made light of the tricky early wet conditions to cross the line five seconds clear of Crutchlow.The Briton manfully shrugged off a fracture to his right shin in a crash in ...
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Israel demands French TV change 13-year-old report on boys death
Israel strikes open up 'all possibilities' - Syrian minister Israel has demanded a French television station correct a report from nearly 13 years ago which helped fuel anger across the world and ignite a bloody uprising against the Jewish state. Twelve-year-old Mohammed al-Dura and his father, Jamal, were filmed crouching in terror by a wall in the Gaza Strip in September 2000, ...
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France has been ignoring its problems now the chickens are coming home to roost
By contrast, last week’s news from the eurozone was dire. Q1’s drop of 0.2pc in GDP was the sixth successive quarterly contraction. It included the second successive drop for France, thereby formally putting it in ...
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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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