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Iranian, French navy chiefs meet on Reunion Island
Jun 30, 2021 01:04The Navy commanders of Iran and France held talks on the sidelines of a meeting of the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) on the Reunion Island, a French department in the Indian Ocean.
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35 French lawmakers rip UAE official’s candidacy to be Interpol chief
Jun 19, 2021 00:35Dozens of French legislators have protested against the candidacy of a United Arab Emirates (UAE) Interior Ministry official for president of Interpol, calling on President Emmanuel Macron to oppose the move.
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Participation of Iranians in presidential election in different countries
Jun 18, 2021 14:10Iranians residing in Australia, France, the Netherlands and Ivory Coast went to the polls on June 18 to cast their votes in the 13th presidential election.
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Iran drops Pakistan, France from red list of air travel destinations
Jun 16, 2021 02:55Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) has allowed a resumption of flights to and from Pakistan and France after designating the two countries as safe enough considering the risk of infection with the coronavirus.
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Beijing says small groups can’t rule world as G7 adopts anti-China agenda
Jun 13, 2021 11:27The Group of Seven’s adoption of a controversial agenda against China has escalated tensions, drawing a stern rebuke from Beijing about outdated assumptions that small groups of countries could still rule and make decisions for the rest of the world.
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Tens of thousands rally against far-right ideas in France
Jun 13, 2021 07:13Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demonstrate against the rise of far-right extremism across France, as tensions run high over the prospect of Marine Le Pen being elected president next May.
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Paris holds back military aid to CAR over alleged anti-French campaign
Jun 09, 2021 07:37France says it will withhold its military cooperation and budgetary aid to the Central African Republic pending further assessments, alleging that the government in Bangui has been involved in a “massive disinformation campaign” with Russia.
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Syria condemns illegal entry of Dutch, French delegations into areas held by SDF militants
Jun 06, 2021 12:16Syrian Foreign Ministry has strongly denounced illegal entry of western delegations from the Netherlands and France into troubled northeastern Syria which has been occupied by US-backed Kurdish militants.
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Macron in Rwanda amid calls for apology over France's role in 1994 genocide
May 27, 2021 07:55French President Emmanuel Macron has made a visit to Rwanda in an attempt to reset relations between the two countries after decades of political tensions over France’s complicity in the 1994 genocide, in which some 800,000 people from the ethnic Tutsi minority were massacred.
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In first, French foreign minister uses ‘apartheid’ to refer to Israel
May 24, 2021 04:00France’s foreign minister has expressed rare concern over the recent Israeli violence against Palestinians in al-Quds and elsewhere, warning of the risk of “long-lasting apartheid”.