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French-Asian consortium announces winning of Canada natural gas project
PARIS--A consortium comprising French, South Korean and Chinese companies has won a contract for a liquefied natural gas project in Canada, the French partner Technip said on ...
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UK and France to join global anti-corruption initiative
oil companies to reveal the taxes paid to national governments and the value of the minerals being extracted.Nearly 40 countries have already signed but the news that France and the UK have joined the initiative represents a breakthrough.The decision to join ...
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IMF Chief Lagarde to Appear Before French Courts
Paris, May 22 (Prensa Latina) International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde will be grilled Thursday by prosecutors investigating her alleged involvement in a corruption case occurred during her time as French finance minister. Lagarde will appear before the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), which probes cases of ministerial misconduct, to explain her 2007 handling of a row that ...
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Kim Kardashian Makes Final Trip to Paris Before Babys Birth Pictures
is making the most of her time in the City of Lights before she has to bid it adieu for the next several months. The pregnant reality star and her ...
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France May Allow English-Language Courses In Universities
Demonstrators hold placards as they rally from the Pantheon square towards the National Assembly on May 22, 2013 in Paris, during a protest against a draft law by the French government for higher education. (JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP/Getty ...
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The Cannes Festival means its party-time on the French Riviera
20/05/2013 05:44 CET The magic of the Cannes Film Festival lies of course with the red carpet and the movies, but there are also secret places for the privileged where only the favoured have access. Euronews reporter Frederic Ponsard managed to bag himself an invitation to one of the top soirees. While glamour, a jewel heist and of course the movies have been grabbing the headlines this week ...
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Famed French composer Dutilleux dies at 97
FRANCE'S Henri Dutilleux, whose modernist and impressionist works ranked him among the leading composers of the 20th century, has died in Paris aged 97, his family has announced. The internationally renowned Dutilleux, born in Angers in 1916, was a composer of predominantly instrumental works ranging from symphonies, orchestral pieces, violin concertos and piano music. His latest work ...
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Los Angeles calls upon star French designers for Figaro opera
By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES | Wed May 22, 2013 1:01pm EDT LOS ANGELES May 22 (Reuters) - Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines. It is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." But unlike ...
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Germans French eye plan to create jobs for young
Germany's labor minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said Wednesday that she and her French counterpart will meet in Paris next week along with the countries' finance ministers and European industry representatives to discuss the initiative. On July 3, Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to host a meeting of the 27 European Union nations' labor ministers and national labor agency heads in ...
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No.7 out of French Open
Argentina's world No.7 Juan Martin del Potro has pulled out of the French Open with an ongoing viral infection.Del Potro is the second top 10 ranked ATP player to withdraw from the second Grand Slam of 2013 following world No.2 Andy Murray's decision on Tuesday to pull out due to a back injury."This is a tough blow, because these are the events you dream of winning," Del ...
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ECBs Weidmann tells France - Dont repeat budget mistakes
PARIS (Reuters) - France must step up reforms to rein in its budget deficit, Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann said in a magazine interview, urging Paris to avoid repeating "the mistakes of the past." The European Commission has proposed that EU ...
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A Beautiful Unbreakable French Press Made From A Mason Jar
You don't have to be a coffee snob to know that French presses are delicate. Anyone who's ever so much as picked up one of the java brewers knows that the glass beakers are incredibly, almost uncomfortably, thin. But Mason jars? Sure, they're ubiquitous, and yeah, they can be a bit twee, but those babies are nothing if not sturdy. Bryan Kappa and Rob Story, the creative and ...
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France says Syrias Assad must give up power to end war
Bashar al-Assad must turn over power to a transitional government in order for a U.S. and Russian-backed peace conference to have any chance of success, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday. "It is perfectly clear that the main aim of this possible conference is to bring in a transitional government for Syria which will have the full executive power," Fabius said ...
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INTERVIEW-Italys Eni chips away at monolithic French gas market
Wed May 22, 2013 12:28pm EDT * Eni wins 50,000 gas customers in eight months * Raises forecast to 650,000 customers by 2016 * Tough market for new entrants, says CEO * Obstacles are govt policy and GDF Suez dominance By Geert De Clercq and Benjamin Mallet PARIS, May 22 (Reuters) - Every day about 500 French consumers sign up with Italian gas vendor Eni as it chips away at the near-total ...
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Germanys Bundesbank chief says France must cut deficit
PARIS (AFP) - The head of Germany's Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, said France needs to make additional efforts to reduce its public deficit, in an interview published Wednesday.France was originally supposed to bring its public deficit back to the EU's ceiling of 3.0 percent of gross domestic product, but has won a two-year extension from the European Commission.Given that the Commission, ...
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Frances Hollande says EU seeks automatic tax data sharing
BRUSSELS | Wed May 22, 2013 11:43am EDT BRUSSELS May 22 (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said on Wednesday that European countries would start working in June on an automatic exchange of tax information, in a bid to recoup some of the billions of euros lost in tax evasion each year. Hollande told a news conference following a four-hour summit of European leaders that the ...
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German-French plan to help jobless
unemployment has become a pressing problem in many countries as economic belt-tightening continues.The German-French initiative comes at a time when both governments are under pressure: Germany faces criticism of its austerity-heavy remedy for Europe's debt crisis, while France has gone ...
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German-French plan to tackle EUs youth unemployment
Germany and France are preparing to launch a drive to combat the problem of high youth unemployment in Europe.Germany's labour minister said that she and her French counterpart will meet in Paris next week along with the countries' finance ministers and European industry representatives to discuss the initiative. Officials in Berlin say the jobs drive will focus on putting already ...
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Suicide on Paris cathedral altar stirs Frances far right
(Facebook) The public suicide in Paris of Dominique Venner, a 78-year-old right-wing French historian and essayist, has stirred a strong political reaction in the country. Some 1,500 visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, then pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head, three days after a law legalizing ...
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Does France have right revival plan
PARIS - The man charged with reviving France’s shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest there is gaining a reputation for doing the opposite. As the country’s first-ever minister for industrial renewal, Arnaud Montebourg has told the world’s largest steelmaker it is not welcome in France; exchanged angry letters with the head of an American tire company he was ...
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Del Porto withdraws from French Open
Juan Martin del Potro, shown at last year's U.S. Open, on Wednesday withdrew from next week's French Open because of a viral illness. UPI/John ...
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Del Potro joins growing list of players out of French Open
Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina hits a return to Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus during their men's singles match at the ATP Dubai Tennis Championships, February 26, 2013. (MOHAMMED ...
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Mardy Fish Edina native out of French Open due to heart issue
Mardy Fish celebrates his victory over Gilles Simon of France in the third round of play at the 2012 U.S. Open, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams) PARIS -- Edina native Mardy Fish has pulled out of the upcoming French Open because of a heart condition, tournament organizers said Wednesday. The former top 10 player had returned to the ATP Tour in March after a ...
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British defense secretary arrives in Mali
British Defense Secretary Phillip Hammond said he's seen key improvements in the ability of Malian forces to take on Islamic militants. Hammond arrived in Mali to visit British forces deployed to help Malian forces ensure territorial integrity from threats by foreign rebels and al-Qaida fighters. Nomadic fighters and al-Qaida militants took control over parts of Mali after a 2012 coup. ...
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Campaigner against gay marriage in France kills himself in Notre Dame
The protests against the legalization of same-sex marriage in France has been surprisingly passionate and may have included yesterday's suicide in the symbolic heart of French ...
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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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