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Christine Lagarde arrives at the Paris court
24/05/2013 - France - IMF

IMF still backing Lagarde on second day of French court hearing

The International Monetary Fund repeated its supported for Christine Lagarde as she faced a second day of questioning in a French court on her role in a controversial deal with businessman and ...

Areva's Arlit uranium mine in Niger
24/05/2013 - Niger - France - Mali

Belmokhtar jihadi group threatens more Niger attacks

The Signatories in Blood group, led by Algerian jihadi Mokhtar Belmokhtar, has threatened more attacks against French and other interests in Niger after Thursday’s double suicide bombings ...

28/04/2013 - Report: France - United States

Family files for Guantanamo hunger-striker's return to France

The French family of a young Algerian man held in Guantanamo Bay for 11 years without trial has launched a legal bid to get him brought over to France.

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika last year
28/04/2013 - Algeria - France

Algeria's Bouteflika flown to Paris hospital after mini-stroke

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was in a Paris hospital Sunday after suffering a mini-stroke. Ther 76-year-old president is not seriously ill, doctors have told the APS news agency.

26/04/2013 - France - China

China wants more French goods, PM Li tells Hollande

China wants to buy more French goods, Chinese Prime Minister Li Kerqiang reportedly told François Hollande on Friday as the French president wrapped up a two-day visit to his country.

26/04/2013 - France - Equatorial Guinea

Guinea's Obiang loses libel case against French NGO

A French court ruled on Thursday that an Ngo did not libel Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema when it accused him of salting away vast amounts of his country’s ...

17/04/2013 - France

Nuclear cargo leaves France for Japan

A cargo of radioactive fuel was ready to leave France for Japan on Wednesday after arriving in the Channel port of Cherbourg overnight.

17/04/2013 - France

PIP breast implant trial begins in Marseille

The trial of five executives of the PIP breat-implant company started in Marseille at 9.30 am on Wednesday morning in one of the biggest court proceedings in France’s history.

17/04/2013 - France - United Kingdom

Brake failure blamed for Alps crash that killed and injured Britons

Tuseday's coach crash that killed the driver and seriously injured three British nationals in the French Alps was probably due to failed brakes, the head of the inquiry into the accident said ...

16/04/2013 - Report: France - Belgium

French jihadist killed fighting in Syria

Belgian police carried out 46 early morning raids on radical Islamist groups early Tuesday morning in an attempt to stop the recruitment of volunteers to fight the regime of Bashar al-Assad in ...

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