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04/02/2012 - France

French railways hand over WWII dossiers to holocaust museums

France’s state-run railway, the SNCF, has handed over digital copies of its archives for the World War II period to three Holocaust museums.

01/02/2012 - US - France

Mitt Romney's dirty secret - he speaks French!

The frontrunner to become the US Republican Party’s presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, has been coming under fire from his opponents for not being conservative enough.

22/01/2012 - United States

Gingrich in surprise win against Romney in South Carolina

The race to become the Republican candidate in the 6 November US presidential election took another dramatic turn on Saturday after Newt Gingrich beat rival and longtime frontrunner Mitt Romney in ...

20/01/2012 - United St

US closes Megaupload site as Dotcom don arrested in New Zealand

The US authorities have shut down the Megaupload website over claims it is involved in one of the largest ever cases of copyright theft.

19/01/2012 - France - United States

French Huffington Post will run Strauss-Kahn stories, says editor Anne Sinclair

The wife of disgraced former International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss-Kahn says she will not dodge stories about her husband as she takes over the editorship of the French version of ...

English-language Wikipedia page on 18 January 2012
18/01/2012 - United States

Wikipedia goes black against anti-piracy laws

Wikipedia’s English site has gone dark for 24-hours, in protest against anti-piracy legislation put forth to the US Congress.

16/01/2012 - France - United States

Three awards for The Artist at Golden Globes in LA

French directed silent movie The Artist walked away with three awards from the Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles late Sunday in the run-up to the all-important Oscars next month.

13/01/2012 - Cöte d'Ivoire - France

Côte d'Ivoire skeleton not that of Franco-Canadian journalist Kieffer

A skeleton exhumed in Côte d’Ivoire and sent to France for DNA tests is not that of Franco-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer, examining magistrate Patrick Ramaël ...

11/01/2012 - Netherlands

Jazz heaven on the North Sea

BB King, Snoop Dogg, Mavis Staples and Chaka Khan were all in the Dutch port of Rotterdam last year for one of the world’s outstanding music events, the

08/01/2012 - Côte d'Ivoire

Skeleton found in Côte d'Ivoire may be missing Franco-Canadian journalist

French forensic scientists are to carry out tests on the DNA of a skeleton found in Côte d'Ivoire on Friday to see if it is that of Franco-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer, who ...

04/01/2012 - France - United States

2011 French cinema entries highest in 45 years

2011 was French cinemas’ most successful year since 1966.

04/01/2012 - France - United States

Paris-Houston flight turns around after mysterious mobile found

An Air France flight from Houston to Paris was obliged to turn around and return to Houston on Tuesday after a mobile phone whose owner could not be identified was found on board.

04/01/2012 - United States

Republican primary race heads to Massachusetts after Romney Iowa win

The campaign for the Republican Party’s candidate in this year’s US presidential election moved to New Hampshire Wednesday after former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney scored a ...

30/12/2011 - France

French breast implant fraud boss tries to start new company

The man at the centre of France’s breast implant scandal has been trying to get back into the business, reports say.

30/12/2011 - Jamaica

Jamaica's first-ever woman prime minister back in office

Jamaica’s left-leaning People’s National Party (PNP) has beaten the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in a general election that sees the country’s first-ever woman prime minister, ...

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