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- IRAN
- French ambassador meets arrested teacher
- Thursday 09 July 2009
- Clotilde Reiss, a young French teacher detained in Tehran's Evin prison after she was accused by Iran of spying, was able to briefly speak with ambassador Bernard Poletti, a diplomatic source has told the AFP.
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- FRANCE
- National electricity provider EDF calls for 20% price hike
- Thursday 09 July 2009
- French electricity provider EDF says it wants to raise tariffs by 20% to make up for debts in excess of 24.5 billion euros, but it may have a hard time persuading the government to approve the hike.
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- FRANCE
- Controversial hearings on banning the ‘head-to-toe veil’ begin
- Thursday 09 July 2009
- Parliamentary hearings on whether to ban the ‘head-to-toe veil’ have brought to the forefront France’s struggle to strike a balance between accommodating Islam and upholding a tradition of secularism.
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- TERRORISM
- Three Eta suspects charged in French court
- Thursday 09 July 2009
- Three key members of the Basque separatist group Eta were charged by a French anti-terrorism judge Wednesday with theft, weapons possession and terrorism.
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- INTERNET
- French Senate adopts amended version of anti-piracy bill
- Wednesday 08 July 2009
- France's upper house has adopted an amended version of a hotly contested Internet piracy bill. This new version modifies the section on sanctions for offenders, which was struck down by France's Constitutional Council on June 10.
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- FRANCE
- 'Barbarians gang' awaits verdict as trial ends
- Wednesday 08 July 2009
- The trial of 27 people accused of abducting and killing Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jewish salesman in 2006, ended on Wednesday with yet another provocation from the gang leader Youssof Fofana, who compared himself to a lion.
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- AVIATION
- France calls for global blacklist after Comoros crash
- Wednesday 08 July 2009
- In the aftermath of the June 30 crash of Yemenia Airbus A310, France has called for a world aviation blacklist of companies that fail to meet safety standards, warning the Yemeni carrier that its name is on the line.
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- JUSTICE
- Sarkozy to release classified documents in Algeria monks case
- Tuesday 07 July 2009
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy has pledged to release classified documents for an inquiry into the deaths of seven French monks in Algeria in 1996. One witness told investigators the Algerian Air Force had killed the monks 'by mistake.'
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