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France wants Hezbollah armed wing on EU terror list by end-June
Supporters of Hezbollah and relatives of Hezbollah member Hussein Ahmad Abu Hasan carry his coffin during his funeral in Beirut's suburbs May 21, ...
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Cannes documentary makers focus on Jackie Stewart Pele and Ali
Thu May 23, 2013 8:58am EDT * Polanski's Stewart documentary resurrected 40 years later * Frears focuses on Ali's court battle over Vietnam War * Pele plans film on his life to "inspire new generation" By Mike Davidson CANNES, May 23 (Reuters) - Three years after "Senna", the hit film biography of the late Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna, sporting documentaries about ...
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Preview Toulouse v Toulon
Newly-crowned European champions Toulon face defending French champions Toulouse in the first Top 14 semi-final at Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes on Friday in a rematch of last year's final. For the second time in as many weekends, Toulon's armada of stars must travel to a neutral venue as they continue their quest for a historic Heineken Cup-Top 14 double after their narrow win ...
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Kill Mittal French video game lets players attack Indian billionaire Lakshmi amid factory battle
A French video game is offering players the chance to become a virtual employee of steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal battling to keep a factory ...
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Special Report French Open A Puzzler in Paris French Open or Roland Garros
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Cannes NonStop Takes Selfish Giant Stone Roses Trip to Italy
Swedish distribution indie NonStop Entertainment returns from the Cannes market with a full suitcase of titles, having picked up Scandinavian rights for a dozen titles, among ...
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Legendary French composer wishes to visit Baku
Legendary French composer, performer and music producer Jean Michel Jarre has given an interview to 1news.az. "I am a Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO since 1993 and I try to give full attention to this public work. Music is a true envoy of good will. It awakens in people perfect feelings which sometimes are very difficult to wake up even by words. Incidentally, during my activity I was ...
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Fake Psy parties with stars in Cannes
Cannes - A man impersonating South Korean entertainer Psy - famed for his dance song ';Gangnam Style'; - ate, drank and partied with the stars in Cannes for two days, The Hollywood Reporter said on ...
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Womens Champions League final Lyon look to avoid Wolfsburg upset – video
Favourites Olympique Lyon and Wolfsburg speak ahead of the Uefa Women's Champions League final, played at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge on Thursday. Lyon are on the cusp of a record third successive Champions League crown, although underdogs Wolfsburg are confident of upsetting their ...
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Menez ruled out of France friendlies
France 's two friendlies in June due a back injury, the French Football Federation has confirmed. The Paris St Germain winger was called into the squad to face Uruguay and Brazil last week but has not featured for PSG since their match against Lyon on 12 May. And, after discussions ...
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Frances Trade Minister to Visit Algeria on Tuesday
Algiers, May 23 (BNA) - French Minister for External Trade Nicole Bricq is to pay a two-day visit to Algeria on Tuesday , May 28 with the aim of enhancing trade partnership between the two countries, the Algerian Commerce Ministry has announced . The ministry said in a statement issued here last Wednesday that during her visit, Bricq will meet with a number of Algerian officials and will also ...
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Too much bling for Bollywood at Cannes
Just when will Bollywood ever get it right? As the world celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema, Indian stars, it seems, went a little overboard in projecting the ethnic, oriental look at the Cannes red carpet that saw Sonam Kapoor, Vidya Balan and Sherlyn Chopra either going big on bling or heavy on jewellery and embroidery.Aishwarya Rai, who has been a regular at Cannes for 11 years, ...
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Ameesha Patel is the newest desi girl at Cannes
A new Miss India has arrived at the Cannes Film Festival to dislodge Vidya Balan from her position as top desi girl. Ameesha Patel made her Cannes debut at the screening of All Is Lost, resplendent in Manish Malhotra. Ameesha, who is in Cannes to promote her upcoming film Shortcut Romeo, cut an elegant figure in a dark blue and coral lehenga with pale gold long choli and dupatta. Coral lips and ...
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Niger bomb attacks target army base and French uranium plant
Niger detonated two car bombs on Thursday, one in the city of Agadez where a military barracks was targeted and one in Arlit, where a French company operates a uranium mine, injuring more than a dozen people.Paris-based nuclear giant Areva said in a statement that 13 employees were hurt in the attack in Arlit, in the northern part of Niger where in ...
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Cannes Norwegian Oil Thriller Pioneer Sells Wide
Cannes: Lars Von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac' Releases First Cast Photo With Shirtless Shia LaBeouf TrustNordisk racked up a pack of international deals for the title, which screened as a work in progress at the Marche, signing agreements with Arrow Films in the U.K., Lumiere in Benelux, Focus & Company for South Korea and Japan's Nettai Museum. Magnolia, whose U.S. release ...
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Lagarde questioned by Paris court over payout to French businessman
IMF ) chief Christine Lagarde has arrived at a court in Paris to be grilled over her role in a legal battle between the state and high-profile French businessman Bernard Tapie. As French finance minister in 2007, under Nicolas Sarkozy, she decided to use arbitration to settle the dispute. It resulted in Tapie being awarded just over 400 million euros, including interest. The case centres on a ...
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French singer Georges Moustaki dies at 79
French singer and composer Georges Moustaki, whose romantic ballads including the 1958 ...
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UPDATE 1-IMFs Lagarde in court for French arbitration case
Thu May 23, 2013 6:38am EDT (Adds Tapie comments, Lagarde lawyer, detail) By Chine Labb PARIS May 23 (Reuters) - IMF chief Christine Lagarde was questioned in court by a French magistrate on Thursday over her role in a 285-million-euro ($366 million) arbitration payment made to a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy. Lagarde risks being placed under formal investigation at the hearing ...
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Twin car bombs in Niger hit French plant
A uranium processing plant owned by French nuclear giant Areva and a military base in northern Niger have been hit by twin car bombings.The attack on Thursday wounded multiple people."There was an explosion in front of the military base at Agadez," Defence Minister Mahamadou Karidjo told AFP, calling it a car bomb attack."The attackers have been neutralised," he said, adding: ...
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Danish director Refn exorcises his violent demons at Cannes festival
An ultra-violent thriller set in the Bangkok underworld of brothels and fight clubs came under attack at the Cannes film festival on Wednesday for its bloodletting, which Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn defended as ...
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LA gets star French designers for ‘Figaro’
.But unlike the countless productions of the 1786 opera, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has handed the reins over to star French architect Jean Nouvel and fashion designer Azzedine Alaia for an unorthodox take on what is sometimes called the most perfect ...
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French police end missing persons searches suggest using Facebook instead
The latest victim of disruption by Internet technologies is a veteran of World War I: the missing persons search.French police will no longer search for adults reported missing by their families unless there are signs that the person is in danger. The police have abandoned searches in progress and stopped accepting new search requests, according to ...
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Evans to lead BMC at Tour de France
Mumbai – Australian Cadel Evans will get the nod ahead of American Tejay van Garderen as BMC Racing's number one rider at the Tour de France, team president Jim Ochowicz ...
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Cannes Psy Impersonator Tricks Festival Organizers Partygoers
Psy's 'Gentleman' Breaks Another YouTube Record Plenty of celebrities have made their way to Cannes over the past week and a half, but one music star -- who many thought made an appearance -- did ...
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France seeks to brand Hezbollah a ‘terrorist’ group
France is to call for the military arm of Hezbollah to be added to an EU terror blacklist due to its backing of the Syrian regime, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius ...
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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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