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French Muslim leader urged Muslims to ignore cartoons

A senior French Muslim leader urged fellow Muslims on Tuesday to ignore cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad rather than resorting to violence in a call for moderation amid outrage across…

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Erdogan backs boycott of French goods – European countries rally behind Macron

Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods on Monday in the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over images being displayed in France…

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France urges Middle Eastern countries to stop boycott of French products

France urged Middle Eastern countries to stop retail companies from boycotting French products. The foreign affairs ministry said in a statement that in recent days there had been calls to…

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Pogba denies retiring from French team over Islam claims

Paul Pogba has strongly denied claims which made the rounds in this morning's press that he had quit the French national team, describing the story as ‘unacceptable fake news’. Reports…

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Photo Story: Spain and France in joint military training

A Spanish Air Force’s F-18 aircraft receives fuel during flight as it takes part in a joint military exercise over the Canary Islands, Spain. Spanish and French Air Forces F-18…

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France may be experiencing 100,000 new COVID cases per day

France may be experiencing 100,000 new COVID-19 cases per day -- twice the latest official figure -- Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, who heads the scientific council that advises the government on…

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France recalls Turkish envoy

France on Saturday said it was recalling its envoy to Turkey for consultations after comments by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggesting French counterpart Emmanuel Macron needed a mental health…

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French hospitals will feel impact of accelerating infections in two weeks: minister

French hospitals cannot avoid the impact of the rapidly spreading coronavirus epidemic, the health minister said on Saturday. The spread of the virus in France has accelerated rapidly in recent…

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Second COVID-19 wave faster than the first, according to top European scientist

According to a top French scientist the coronavirus second wave is spreading more quickly than the first outbreak. "The virus is circulating more quickly… the resurgence of the pandemic started…

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France becomes seventh country with more than 1 million COVID-19 cases

The number of confirmed novel coronavirus infections jumped over one million on Friday, making France the seventh country to reach that milestone. Over the past 24 hours, France registered a…

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French mayor receives beheading threats

A French mayor said on Friday he had received threats of having his head cut off - just one week after the decapitation of schoolteacher Samuel Paty shocked France. "These…

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France reports record 41,622 new daily cases

French health authorities reported 41,622 new confirmed COVID-19 cases over 24 hours on Thursday, an all-time daily high that was published shortly after the government announced a broad extension of…

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France passes 1 million covid-19 cases

France has become the second country in Western Europe to record more than 1m coronavirus infections, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker. The current total is 1,000,357. France has…

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France awards Legion of Honor to slain schoolteacher

President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute on Wednesday to a French history teacher beheaded by an Islamist radical as a “quiet hero” dedicated to instilling the democratic values of the French…

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France to pay respects to beheaded teacher with ceremony at Sorbonne

France will pay tribute Wednesday to a history teacher beheaded in a quiet Paris suburb as President Emmanuel Macron promised to intensify a clampdown on Islamist extremism. Police have carried…

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French police conduct raids in crackdown after teacher beheading

French police on Monday raided Islamic associations and foreigners suspected of extremist religious beliefs, police sources said, three days after a suspected Islamist beheaded a school teacher. History teacher Samuel…

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French food group Danone launches portfolio review to cope with COVID-19 world

Danone said on Monday it was launching a review of its assets and reshaping its management to better cope with challenges stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. The world's largest yoghurt…

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Indications France to expel 231 suspected extremists after attack on teacher

France is preparing to expel 231 foreigners on a government watch list for suspected extremist religious beliefs, a police union source said, two days after a Russian-born Islamist beheaded a…

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Photo Story: Fossilized skeleton of dinosaur sold for €2 million

Flavio Bacchia, owner of Zoic laboratories, looks at one of his dinosaurs know as Big Sara in Trieste, northern Italy. The skeleton measures 10 meters in length and is 150…

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Suspect in teacher’s beheading in France identified as Chechen teen

A suspect shot dead by police after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee unknown to intelligence services who posted a grisly claim of…

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France posts record number of new COVID-19 cases

The French health ministry reported a record number of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday at 32,427, after reporting 25,086 on Friday. The total number of infections since the…

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Samuel Paty, the beheaded French teacher was target of social media hate campaign

Samuel Paty, the teacher beheaded outside his school in a Paris suburb, was described by his pupils and their parents as caring and professional. But he was killed after becoming…

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France report 25,086 new coronavirus cases

The French health ministry reported 25,086 new confirmed coronavirus cases in past 24 hours on Friday, after reporting a record 30,621 on Thursday. It also reported that 122 people had…

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French police arrest nine after suspect Islamist beheaded school teacher

French police have arrested nine people after a suspected Islamist sympathiser beheaded a school teacher on the street of a Paris suburb on Friday, police sources said. Investigators were trying…

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Sarkozy indicted for concealment of Libyan public funds in new corruption charges

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy claimed on Friday his "innocence is again violated" after new charges were issued against him as part of an investigation into the alleged illegal campaign…

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Teacher knifed to death in France after showing class cartoons of Prophet Mohammad

A middle school history teacher in France was knifed to death near the school where earlier this month he had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, considered blasphemous by Muslims,…

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Man decapitated in Paris – Terror probe launched

A man has been found decapitated in the French department of Val-d'Oise, located some 28 km northwest of Paris. The suspect is also reported to have been shot dead. Police…

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France promises 1 billion euros for curfew-hit companies

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire promised 1 billion euros ($1.17 billion) of additional support to help French companies cushion the impact of a nightly curfew in Paris and eight other…

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Concern as France’s new COVID-19 cases set new 24-hour record, Spain registers 13,300 cases

French health authorities on Thursday reported the number of new daily coronavirus infections jumped above 30,000 for the first time since the start of the epidemic. French President Emmanuel Macron…

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France says EU should press ahead with digital tax plans

The European Union should press ahead with plans for a bloc-wide digital tax in case global talks at the OECD to rewrite international tax rules fail, French Finance Minister Bruno…

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Paris to go under curfew from 9pm-6am

France has imposed a curfew in Paris and eight other cities from Saturday. “We have to act. We need to put a brake on the spread of the virus,” President…

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France declares public health state of emergency – Update

he French government on Wednesday declared a public health state of emergency, giving officials greater powers to impose new measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. "The COVID-19 epidemic constitutes…

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France’s COVID cases keep surging as new restrictions loom

New COVID-19 infections, hospitalisations and deaths all spiked further in France on Tuesday as the nation braced for additional restrictions that President Emmanuel Macron may unveil in nationally televised speech…

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Al-Hariri calls for restoration of French plan for Lebanon

Lebanon's leading Sunni Muslim politician, former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, called for the restoration of a French plan to lift the nation out of its worst financial crisis since its…

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Attack on police station in Paris suburb reported

About 40 unidentified people armed with metal bars and using fireworks as projectiles tried to storm a police station in the Paris suburbs on Saturday night, officials said. “Violent attack…

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French aid worker describes years in captivity in Mali desert

At one point during her four years in the hands of jihadist militants in northern Mali, French aid worker Sophie Petronin said she felt like giving up hope. She wandered…

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Photo Story: Skeleton of Allosaurus dinosaur on auction in France

Handout photos made available by the Drouot Auction House in Paris shows the skeleton of an Allosaurus dinosaur species from the Upper Jurassic (161-145 million years) discovered in the Johnson…

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France struggles to contain coronavirus spread

The number of new coronavirus infections in France jumped more than 20,000 in one day for the first time since the start of the epidemic, health ministry data showed on…

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Photo Story: Exhibit on Olmec civilization opens in Paris

Photos taken during a press preview of the exhibition 'The Olmecs and the Civilizations from the Gulf of Mexico' at the Quai Branly Museum-Jacques Chirac, a museum featuring indigenous art…

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Kidnapped Mali politician, French aid worker and two Italians freed

Freed Malian politician Soumaila Cisse, French aid worker Sophie Petronin and two Italians arrived in Bamako on Thursday aboard a Malian military transport plane, ending their lengthy captivity in the…

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Hospitals in the Paris moved into emergency mode as COVID-19 cases at record high

France’s third-biggest city Lyon will have to close its bars in coming days as its coronavirus infection rates are spiking and its hospital emergency beds are filling up quickly with…

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France orders new restrictions in Lyon and Lille

In France, the government will put Lyon and Lille on maximum Covid-19 alert, France Inter radio has reported, paving the way for new restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus…

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Two police injured after shooting in Herblay, north of Paris

Two policemen have been injured after a late night shooting in the French city of Herblay, north of the capital, its mayor said on Thursday, adding that police were hunting…

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France announces new COVID-19 restrictions as new daily cases at all-time high, hospitalisations up

French President Emmanuel Macron says there will be new restrictions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, as the country reported a new all-time high, at almost 19,000, of new infections of…

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French doctors raise alarm on delay of cancer screenings due to coronavirus

French doctors and volunteers across the country have sounded the alarm over the dangers of delaying cancer screenings because of the coronavirus pandemic. France 24 reports that with the number…

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More than half of Paris’ poorest residents have Covid, new survey finds

More than half of the Paris region's poorest residents, notably migrants, have been infected with the coronavirus, according to French aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres. The alarming figures were released…

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France’s AccorInvest in debt-restructuring talks

French hotel real estate group AccorInvest is in talks with its banks over a possible restructuring of more than 4 billion euros ($4.7 billion) of debts, financial daily Les Echos…

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Warning that wild sea bass fishing is causing trawlers to kill dolphins and porpoise

Wild sea bass is off the menu as the European fishing industry is killing thousands of dolphins and porpoises, conservationists warned. Bay of Biscay sea bass are often caught using…

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France cuts wine production forecast after champagne harvest drop

France's farm ministry on Tuesday reduced its forecast of 2020 wine production to below the average of recent years as it factored in smaller harvest volumes in the Champagne region.…

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Paris to shut bars and raise alert to maximum

Paris is to be placed on maximum COVID-19 alert, meaning bars will be forced to close for two weeks from Tuesday and restaurants will have to put in place new…

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Seven bodies found in northern Italy, France after violent storms

Seven bodies were found in a region straddling the French-Italian border near Nice on Sunday after torrential rains swept houses and roads away, officials in both countries said. Five of…

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France registers record 17,000 confirmed new cases

France reported nearly 17,000 new confirmed coronavirus infections on Saturday, about 5,000 more than on the previous day, setting a new daily record. The number of infections rose by 16,972…

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Two killed, 25 missing in floods after storms hit France and Italy

Two people died and 25 people were missing in France and Italy after a storm hit border regions of the two countries, bringing record rainfall in places and causing heavy…

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Macron launches crackdown on ‘Islamist separatism’ in Muslim communities

French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Friday to fight "Islamist separatism", which he said was threatening to take control in some Muslim communities around France. France has struggled with homegrown…

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French Pasteur Institute aims to start human trials of Covid-19 drug this winter

The Pasteur Institute in the northern French city of Lille has confirmed the discovery of a “very promising” drug in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, without naming it. As infection rates…

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Restaurants in Paris in danger of being shutdown as coronavirus roars back

Paris is set to be placed on maximum COVID alert from as soon as Monday, Health Minister Olivier Veran said, a move likely to force the closure of restaurants and…

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France says needs new pandemic business insurance law

France will need a law requiring insurers to offer businesses coverage for losses linked to future pandemics, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday. "The state is not…

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