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21/03/2013 - France - Mexico - Peru

Mexico, Peru, Guatemala demand Sotheby's stops Paris auction

Mexico has asked France to withdraw 130 Mexican art works, 51 of them pre-Colombian, from an auction at Sotheby’s Paris this weekend.

Paris independent cinema changes with the times
20/03/2013 - On-the-spot France

Paris independent cinema changes with the times

Going to the movies has been central to French cultural life ever since the country’s Lumière brothers devised an early motion-picture camera and projector in the late 1800s.

Une gare RER en banlieue parisienne.
19/03/2013 - France

Gang stages 'highway robbery' on Paris suburban train

Police in the Paris region have beefed up security on suburban train services after a 20-strong gang stopped a train and robbed its passengers at the weekend.

Locals squeezed out of gentrified Paris district
19/03/2013 - On-the-spot France

Locals squeezed out of gentrified Paris district

Like all cities, Paris is constantly changing, as neighbourhoods attract new workers and residents.

Franco-African literary movement finds its place during the Springtime of Poets
17/03/2013 - Culture in France

Franco-African literary movement finds its place during the Springtime of Poets

For the past decade Thierry Sinda, a Franco-Congolese poet, has been building a movement of black writers called Néonégritude, a revival of Négritude ...

A member of the Free Syrian Army stands near a damaged building in Raqqa province, eastern Syria, 13 March, 2013
16/03/2013 - France - Syria

French protests on two year Syria war anniversary

A second day of protests have been held in Paris on Saturday denouncing the Syrian regime and criticising the inaction of the United Nations as part of the second anniversary of the outbreak of ...

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.

13/03/2013 - France

Thousands blocked on icy roads as France recovers from surprise snowfall

Eurostar and Thalys train services between Paris and London and Brussels resumed on Wednesday as the heavy snow that fell Tuesday began to melt.

12/03/2013 - France

Former Paris mayor and wife found guilty of vote-rigging

A French court has found a former Paris mayor and his wife guilty of vote-rigging in local and national elections in the 1990s.

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.

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