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French jobless rate breaks 3 million barrier

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The French government is scrambling to save a generation as record unemployment hits young people the hardest. Also, gang warfare appears to worsen in Marseille as a Socialist senator calls for the army to be sent in. Finally, France's annual American film festival kicks off in Deauville on the Normandy coast.

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