Thursday 28 August 2008
Controversy over French tax for unemployment benefits
France's political establishment is divided over President Nicolas Sarkozy (right) and High Commissionner for Solidarity Martin Hirsch's (left) proposed €1.5 billion unemployment aid package funded through a 1.1% levy on capital gains.
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- CHINA - HUMAN RIGHTS
- Media watchdog takes over Chinese radio frequency
- Friday 08 August 2008
- In a symbolic call for free speech, Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders briefly took over a Chinese radio frequency shortly before the opening of the Beijing Olympics. Pictured: Robert Menard, the group's secretary general.
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- SECURITY - FRANCE
- Bombs defused in French tourist area
- Friday 08 August 2008
- Two bombs were found in the French Basque country and one on a high-speed train in the French region of Landes. All were easily defused, officials said.
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- FRANCE - AFGHANISTAN
- French wounded soldiers 'back from hell'
- Wednesday 20 August 2008
- Some of the French soldiers injured in a deadly attack in Afghanistan arrived in Paris as French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a crisis visit to Kabul after one of the deadliest attacks on French troops abroad.
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- RWANDA - FRANCE
- France slams Rwandan genocide accusations
- Thursday 07 August 2008
- The French defence ministry has questioned the legitimacy of a Rwandan commission accusing French officials, including late President François Mitterrand, of involvement in the 1994 genocide. CAUTION: Images may be disturbing to some viewers.
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- UNITED KINGDOM - FRANCE
- UK police make new arrest in probe of French students' murder
- Wednesday 06 August 2008
- A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the brutal murder of two French exchange students in London in June, British police said.
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- FRANCE - JUSTICE
- French court grants bail to former Red Brigade member
- Tuesday 05 August 2008
- A French appeals court has ordered the release on bail of Marina Petrella, a convicted former member of the Red Brigades facing extradition to Italy, after her family and doctors voiced serious concerns about her health.
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