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Israel contests France TV over Palestinian boys death
29/03/2013 19:15 CET Israel says there is new evidence that a French television report whose harrowing images helped inspire the second Palestinian uprising was unfounded. The report in 2000 showed a father and son in Gaza caught up in Israeli-Palestinian crossfire. The 12-year-old was later pronounced dead – hit, said France 2, by Israeli troops. Nearly 13 years later, the Israeli ...
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Seen and Heard at Cannes
Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: JAMES CAAN GOES BACK TO THE 70S They don't make movies like they used to - which is why James Caan was happy to go back to the 1970s in Guillaume Canet's "Blood Ties." An icon of '70s cinema through his role as Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather," Caan plays the patriarch of a ...
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Llewyn Davis star shines at Cannes
When Oscar Isaac first approached T Bone Burnett to prepare for his role as a folk singer in Inside Llewyn Davis, the film's executive music producer gave him some good advice. "He told me, 'Sing like you're singing to yourself,'" Isaac recalled during a Cannes Film Festival press event Sunday as the much-anticipated Coen brothers film made its world premiere. ...
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Cannes festival surges into top gear Coen brothers take poll position in the race for the Palme dOr
By Donald Clarke In James Toback's frisky documentary Seduced and Abandoned , presented for the press yesterday morning, one contributor describes the Cannes Film Festival as having "a split personality". Many attendees are just here to discuss deals. A few more are here to celebrate the best in world cinema. The event surged into top gear over the weekend with a cracking array of ...
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Cannes With The Congress Ari Folman votes for new audacity
May 19--CANNES, France -- Few independent directors have won as many plaudits for their visual inventiveness as Ari Folman. Five years ago, the Israeli first-timer came to Cannes and caught the film world's attention with his combat piece "Waltz With Bashir." A largely autobiographical account of his experience in the first Israel-Lebanon war, "Bashir" subsumed real-life ...
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Cannes 2013 The musical side of the Coens Inside Llewyn Davis
May 19--"He had to be believable as a musician, because this is not the kind of movie where you hear a few bars of a song; they play out in their entirety," Joel continues. "But the character is in every scene, so he has to be a very accomplished actor. It's not easy to find that in the same person, so we were very frustrated until Oscar walked in." "Now it weirdly ...
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Briton Julian Stevenson under formal investigation in Lyon over murder of own children
A divorced British father with a history of drunkenness and domestic violence was formally accused of the murder of his two children, who were found with their throats cut in his apartment in southern ...
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Rain washed out Strasbourg International
First-round matches in the main draw at the Strasbourg International tennis tournament were rained out Monday. Seven matches, including one pitting ...
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New Airbus A350 jet could make Paris show flypast
The vertical tail wing of the first Airbus A350 is seen on the final assembly line in Toulouse, southwestern France, in this October 23, 2012 file photo. (JEAN-PHILIPPE ...
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Palestinian film of love and betrayal breaks new ground at Cannes
CANNES (Reuters) - A tragic love story between two Palestinians living under Israeli occupation received a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival on Monday and broke new ground as the first film fully funded by the Palestinian cinema ...
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British man appears in French court over death of his children
A British man accused of killing his two children appeared in court in the French city of Lyon on Monday to be formally put under investigation - the equivalent of being charged - for the murders.The judge ordered Julian Stevenson, 47, to be held in custody after he reportedly admitted to police that he had slit his children's throats during their first unaccompanied custody visit, but did ...
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Cannes Exclusive Media Inks Equity Slate Deal
U.K.- and L.A.-based Exclusive Media, the global film production, sales and distribution company, has inked a rolling four picture equity deal for up to 12 ...
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Catherine Field Plans to drop French-only teaching rule horrify purists
Could one of the last bastions of French be about to fall? To the horror of French language purists, the National Assembly will this week debate plans to roll back laws that require teaching at universities to be conducted only in French. A vote on the bill is expected on Thursday. The idea is the brainchild of Higher Education Minister Genevieve Fioraso. She says it is time for France to ...
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Brit to face charges in France over deaths
A BRITISH man is to face charges over the killing of his two children in France, prosecutors say. The 48-year-old man admitted to having slit the throats of his daughter, aged five and his 10-year-old son, the prosecutors said, adding there was currently no evidence of premeditated murder. The man's ex-wife found him covered in blood on the street when she went to pick up the children from ...
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Bundesbank Chief Says France Must Take Deficit Cuts Seriously
Germany's federal reserve Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann stands beside the door of a giant safe as he poses for a photograph at the money museum next to the Bundesbank headquarters, in Frankfurt, Germany, May 17, ...
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Cannes rolls out red carpet for Indian movies
Actress Aishwarya Rai poses for portraits at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Laurent ...
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Father who killed children in Lyon will not be charged with premeditated murder
French prosecutors investigating the case of a British father who has admitted cutting the throats of his two young children are not seeking to charge him with premeditated ...
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British snowboarder killed on Mont Blanc is named
A Chamonix police spokesman said: "He would have been totally exhausted and the visibility was very poor." Mr Courtney said that the off piste run was still attracting skiers and snowboarders, despite the main resort having closed for the season. "I was thinking of going up there myself on Saturday morning as I passed the cable car and it was rammed with tourists and ...
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Cannes Sci-Fi Horror Tale Human Race Sells for Germany Australia Japan
, KSM took German-speaking Europe, Anchor Bay picked up the film for Australia and New Zealand and IPA bought Japanese rights. "We are receiving offers every day" said ...
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Lu Upsets 5th-Seeded Seppi in France
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France to debate introduction of more English-speaking courses
Geneviève Fioraso, the Minister for Higher Education, wants to ramp up courses in English, warning that otherwise universities will eventually end up with "five people sitting around a table discussing Proust". The measure, she said, is aimed at increasing the number of foreign students at French universities from the current level of 12 percent of the total to 15 percent ...
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Coen brothers movie is a big hit at Cannes
Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake and Ethan Coen walked the red carpet as they arrived for the screening of “Inside Llewyn Davis” at the Cannes Film Festival ...
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Too Much Sex at Cannes
weu2019re talking about movies featuring sex and violence that are making a lot of waves, both good and bad.nnCannes has a long history of pushing the limits with sex and violence: think "Pulp Fiction," "Sex Lies," "Videotape," and "Antichrist." So which films are pushing moviegoersu2019 buttons this ...
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Shurat HaDin Arrest France 2 bureau chief in wake of al-Dura report
[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: In response to question from IMRA if Nitsana Darshan-Leitner plans to file a complaint herself with the police, Shurat HaDin responded that: "There are many victims of the second Intifada who would be willing to file a complaint against him, and indeed this may prove to be the case as a result of this development." ] Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center ...
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France Killings Julian Stevenson In Court
A British man has arrived at a court in France where he is expected to be formally charged with killing his two children. The man, named by the Foreign Office as Julian Stevenson, was held after the bodies of his son and daughter were found by police in his flat in Saint-Priest, a suburb of Lyon. Their throats had been slit. The children have been named in local reports as Mathew, 10, and ...
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Mutual importance of Sino-Franco relations
China and France, two major regional powers in Asia and Europe respectively, have long had steady economic relations. Cultural ties have seen a disparity, however, which is perhaps due to the recently unsteady diplomatic relations between the two countries. In the last few months though, there has been a significant improve in this area.
France was one of the first western powers to recognize the People’s Republic of China as a legitimate country and established an embassy in the country before Great Britain, Germany or the United States. Since 2008, however, France has found itself often at odds with the emerging superpower, especially over its One China policy. Read more
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