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Terrorists attack Iran's embassy in Paris
Sep 15, 2018 10:45Iran’s Embassy in Paris has come under attack by alleged supporters of Iraq-based anti-Iran terrorists after the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) fired missiles at terrorist commanders in the Arab country's Kurdistan region.
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Macron admits systematic use of torture in Algeria war
Sep 13, 2018 12:09France has admitted that it instigated a "system" that led to torture during Algeria's independence war in the 1950s and 1960s as it comes to grips with its long-suppressed legacy of colonial crimes.
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Seven people wounded in knife attack in Paris, ‘no early sign of terrorism’
Sep 10, 2018 07:04Police in France say they have arrested a knife-wielding man who wounded seven people in an attack in central Paris.
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France joins space race, developing independent space capabilities
Sep 08, 2018 03:28France has announced measures to join a current space race among the world powers, amid the United States recent rhetoric on the militarization of the Earth’s outer space, which has raised concerns about shifting the battlefield into the space.
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Daesh to lose all territory in Syria by 2019: French army chief
Sep 07, 2018 01:37The French military chief says the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group will have been flushed out from all the territory it once controlled in Syria under a self-proclaimed “caliphate” before the end of this year.
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Moscow denies Hollande's claim that Putin threatened to ‘crush’ Ukraine troops
Sep 01, 2018 05:05Moscow has denied a claim made by former French President Francois Hollande in his memoirs that Russian President Vladimir Putin had threatened to “crush” Ukrainian troops.
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Tensions flare up between UK and France over fishing in English Channel
Aug 30, 2018 14:11An old row between the United Kingdom and France over rights to scallop fishing in seas near France's Normandy coast have escalated after French and British fishermen clashed in the English Channel in the latest outbreak of the so-called “scallop wars.”
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Tehran says no French restrictions for diplomats to travel to Iran
Aug 29, 2018 10:45The Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic of Iran has dismissed media reports that France has told its diplomats to postpone all non-essential trips to Iran, warning about attempts aimed at undermining relations between Iran and Europe, especially France.
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France, Germany mull over independent financing system to sidestep US bans
Aug 28, 2018 03:19France and Germany are seeking to develop a European financing mechanism independent of the US with the aim of sidestepping US sanctions against countries, including Iran, and asserting the continent’s “sovereignty.”
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Iran president urges faster, more transparent steps to save JCPOA
Aug 27, 2018 13:59President Hassan Rouhani has called on the remaining signatories to the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers to act faster and in a more transparent way to preserve it after the US move to pull out of the agreement.