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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”.
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French army chief denies UN report into deadly Mali wedding airstrike as 'biased'
May 23, 2021 09:30The top French military officer has dismissed as “biased” a United Nations report into an airstrike that killed at least 19 civilians in Mali early this year, alleging that it sought to turn the local people in the Sahel region against France.
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French police arrest head of Palestine advocacy group, ban pro-Palestine rally
May 14, 2021 02:02Police in France have arrested the head of a Palestine advocacy organization after putting a ban on a rally against Zionist entity’s atrocities.
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French soldiers warn of 'brewing civil war'; accuse Macron of silencing their voice
May 12, 2021 00:10A group of serving French soldiers has published an open letter warning that France has been brought to the brink of “civil war,” accusing their President Emmanuel Macron for silencing their voice.
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Jersey standoff over post-Brexit fishing feud escalates between UK, France
May 07, 2021 00:35Tensions between London and Paris over post-Brexit fishing rights have escalated off the island of Jersey, with the two sides sending navy and coastal patrol ships to the area as a “precaution” in ratcheting up of the row.
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Iranian investor to sign airport plan abandoned by French
May 05, 2021 06:42Iran will soon sign the contract to build a new terminal at the Imam Khomeini Airport (IKA) in Tehran to handle 25 million passengers a year, an official says.
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France summons Russian ambassador over sanctions against EU officials
May 05, 2021 04:43Russian Ambassador to France Alexei Meshkov has been summoned to the country’s Foreign Ministry over Moscow’s decision to impose retaliatory sanctions on a number of European officials.
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Workers mark May Day with protest rallies in France, Spain, Germany
May 02, 2021 03:10Protests erupted in a number of European countries on May Day as demonstrators called for better working protections in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the attributed economic crisis.