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Renault to cut down 15,000 jobs amid coronavirus outbreak
May 29, 2020 04:06Renault has said it was launching talks with unions to restructure several French car plants, potentially leading to closures, as it confirmed plans to cut around 15,000 jobs worldwide.
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Iran rejects France’s threats, says will brook no meddling in its judicial affairs
May 27, 2020 11:42Foreign Ministry rejects France’s “meddlesome” remarks regarding the case of an Iranian national, saying Tehran will brook no interference in its judicial affairs.
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Israel must 'abandon threats of annexation': UN envoy
May 21, 2020 02:27The United Nations' special envoy for West Asia has called on Israel to abandon plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, joining a growing international chorus of opposition.
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COVID-19: Tension mounts in global race for coronavirus vaccine
May 15, 2020 04:47Global tensions simmered over the race for a coronavirus vaccine Thursday, as the United States and China traded jabs, and France slammed pharmaceuticals giant Sanofi for suggesting the US would get any eventual vaccine first.
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China warns France not to harm bilateral ties by selling weapons to Taiwan
May 13, 2020 13:49China has warned France not to sell weapons to the self-ruled island of Taiwan, saying such a move would harm bilateral ties.
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Macron says normal life still far away as France needs recovery
May 02, 2020 01:23French President Emmanuel Macron says normal life is still far away from the country even as it moves to end a weeks-long lockdown imposed over the new coronavirus pandemic.
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France rejects US anti-China claim of COVID-19 link to Wuhan lab
Apr 18, 2020 10:56The French government has rejected as unfounded the recent US allegations linking a Chinese research laboratory in the city of Wuhan to the new coronavirus.
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Almost half of crew on French aircraft carrier fleet have COVID-19
Apr 18, 2020 00:56France’s Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly says more than 1,000 of the sailors on the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier fleet have tested positive for the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19.
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One month since declared coronavirus pandemic, over 108,000 dead
Apr 12, 2020 03:42One month since the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), 108,867 people have died of complications caused by the pathogen and more than 1,777,666 people have been infected worldwide, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.
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Death stalks French nursing home as decomposing corpses lie in bedrooms: Report
Apr 11, 2020 01:02A grim report from a nursing home in the French capital Paris reveals that several bodies of the elderly who have died of COVID-19 are still waiting to be buried, while the stench of decomposing corpses pervades the facility.