Tag Archives: France
France and Belgium pump €5.5bn into Dexia
France and Belgium inject another €5.5bn into lender after it reports losses of €2.4bn
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France offers businesses €20bn tax break
Measures come in response to calls for a ‘competitiveness shock’ to boost the flagging economy and combat rising unemployment
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France arrests ‘top ETA leader’
Izaskun Lesaka detained in Macon after being on the run since 2005 for her alleged role in the Basque separatist group.
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France slated to offer abortions for free
Bill passed by parliament reimburses cost for all unwanted pregnancies and provides minors full contraceptive access.
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France nears deal to rescue Peugeot
Paris set to provide €5bn-€7bn of guarantees for the carmaker’s lending arm in what would be its biggest intervention in the car industry since 2009
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AP Exclusive: France to send drones to Mali region
PARIS (AP) — France will move surveillance drones to West Africa and is holding secretive talks with U.S. officials in Paris this week as it seeks to steer international military action to help Mali’s feeble government win back the northern…
Armstrong stripped of Tour de France titles
The International Cycling Union (UCI) strips Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and bans him for life.
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Mali rebels threaten France over intervention
Al-Qaeda-linked fighters say they will “open the doors of hell” if France keeps pushing for armed intervention in Mali.
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France looks to upend school year traditions
PARIS (AP) — French children go to school four days a week. They have about two hours each day for lunch. And they have more vacation than their counterparts almost anywhere in the West.
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France drops Strauss-Kahn rape charges
France’s public prosecution says it took the decision after a young woman retracted an allegation against the former IMF chief
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Megan due to fly home from France
Fifteen-year-old Megan Stammers is expected back in the UK later, having sparked an international search after she went to France with her maths teacher.
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Megan Stammers found in France
Missing teenager Megan Stammers is found in France with teacher Jeremy Forrest, Sussex Police say.
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France unveils tough budget measures
Companies and the wealthy face €20bn of new taxes after France’s government unveiled its harshest budget for three decades
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France braced for tough budget
The government of French President Francois Hollande is to present its first budget, with tax increases expected to bridge the country’s deficit.
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Libyan behind Gaddafi capture dies in France
Omran Shaaban was being treated for injuries sustained during captivity at the hands of ex-ruler’s loyalists.
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Alps attack girl ‘leaves France’
A seven-year-old British girl who survived an attack in the French Alps in which three family members were shot dead has been released from hospital, police sources say.
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Witness tells of France murder scene
A British cyclist who was the first to come across the aftermath of a brutal murder in the French Alps last week told Thursday how he helped an injured girl and called for help.
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France ‘helped Syrian defector escape’
General Manaf Tlass has hinted that French secret agents helped him flee Syria in early July.
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2 girls survive mass shooting in France
Investigators were working Thursday to determine what led to a shooting in eastern France that left four people dead in and around a British-registered car.
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Girl found in France murders car
A girl has been found hiding inside a British-registered car in which three bodies were discovered eight hours earlier, French police say.
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