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06/04/2013 - France - India

India-France fighter-jet negotiations stall, report

French aircraft maker Dassault’s negotiations with the Indian government over a 10 billion-euro Rafale jet deal have stalled over the production of some of the fighter-planes in India, ...

29/03/2013 - France

Greeetings card workers kidnap bosses over layoff pay

Bossnapping is back in France.

28/03/2013

African press review 28 March 2013

A row over the role of South African peacekeepers in the current crisis in the Central African Republic, and news of an Opec-style body for the platinum mining industry are among the stories in ...

18/03/2013 - India - France

Indian police charge four for kidnapping local Alstom boss

Indian police say they have charged four men for the weekend kidnapping of the boss of the Indian branch of French company, Alstom.

15/03/2013 - France

Thousands of bags stranded at Paris airport after week of snow costs businesses millions

France is counting the cost of this week’s surprise snowfall, with shopping malls estimating a loss of up to 85 million euros and insurers expecting tens of thousands of claims.

10/03/2013 - France

Anti-nuclear campaigners form human chain in Paris

Thousands of people formed a human chain in Paris on Saturday - the second anniversary of Japan's Fukushima disaster - to oppose nuclear power, which provides most of France's energy.

01/03/2013 - France

French Socialist bigwig Aubry hopes to dodge asbestos charges

Former French Socialist Party chief Martine Aubry is seeking to have manslaughter proceedings against her dropped.

22/02/2013 - France - United States

US tyre boss slams 'extremist' Hollande government in new volley over French workers

American tyre boss Maurice Taylor has fired another volley in the war of words with French Industrial Renewal Minister Arnaud Montebourg, calling the French government’s policies towards ...

21/02/2013 - France - United States

French minister hits back at US tyre boss's lazy French broadside

French Industrial Renewal Minister Anrnaud Montebourg has hit back at the “extremist” letter of US tyre boss, Maurice “Morry The Grizz” Taylor, which claimed French ...

20/02/2013 - France - US

French 'so-called' workers work three hours a day, claims US tyre boss

A US tyre company boss has laid into France’s “so-called” workers in a letter to a French minister, accusing them of working just three hours a day for high wages.

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