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France urges EU to impose WTO state aid sanctions over Boeing
Oct 16, 2020 12:45French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has urged the European Union to slap sanctions on the United States in their dispute over state aid for Boeing and Airbus.
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Police station in Paris suburb comes under attack
Oct 11, 2020 08:39Dozens of people have launched an attack using metal bars and fireworks on a police station in a suburb of the French capital of Paris.
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France, Italy step up rescue efforts after fatal floods
Oct 05, 2020 11:09French and Italian rescue services stepped up search efforts on Sunday after floods cut off several villages in the mountainous border regions, causing widespread damage and killing four people.
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New Caledonia rejects full independence from France again
Oct 04, 2020 13:03The South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia voted against independence from France on Sunday for the second time in as many years, a provisional final count showed.
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Egypt's Islamic academy slams Macron's Islamophobic remarks
Oct 04, 2020 09:01A prominent Islamic research center in Egypt has denounced French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent Islamophobic remarks as an “explicit call for racism and hate.”
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Putin slams external pressure on Belarus as Macron meets opp. leader
Sep 29, 2020 10:28Russian President Vladimir Putin has decried the “unprecedented external pressure” exerted on neighboring Belarus, as French President Emmanuel Macron met with Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Lithuania.
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Macron gives Lebanon ultimatum over government formation
Sep 28, 2020 10:21French President Emmanuel Macron has given Lebanese political leaders an ultimatum to form a new government within six weeks.
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Suspects arrested in French capital after stabbing attack: Police
Sep 26, 2020 01:36Police in France has arrested two suspects after a stabbing attack outside the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in the country’s capital, Paris.
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Saudi Arabia receives new consignments of French speedboats: SPA
Sep 21, 2020 05:06Saudi Arabia’s navy has received the second and third batches of French fast interceptor boats, as part of a technology transfer deal with the Paris government.
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France rejects US allegation Hezbollah storing chemicals to make explosives in Europe
Sep 19, 2020 09:52France has rejected allegations by a senior US State Department official that the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has stored chemicals that can be used to make explosives in the European country, emphasizing that there is no evidence to substantiate such claims.