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Lyon looking to offload striker Bafetimbi Gomis
Lyon see Lisandro Lopez as the leader of their line in 2013-14, not Bafetimbi Gomis Gomis, 27, has just a year left on his contract and Lyon have reportedly already tried to recoup some of the estimated €15 million they paid Saint-Etienne for the striker in 2009 in the last two transfer windows. He has been linked with a €10 million switch to Swansea City and Cardiff City this ...
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Airbus wins A350 order from Air France-KLM
Air France-KLM has been at loggerheads with suppliers over issues mainly including maintenance of the plane's Rolls-Royce engines ever since the deal was first mooted in 2011. Air France and Rolls had clashed over conflicting ideas for engine supply ...
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Lourdes sanctuary closed pilgrims evacuated amid heavy floods in southwest France
The sanctuary of Lourdes flooded, in Lourdes, southwestern France, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. French rescue services and police are evacuating hundreds of pilgrims from hotels threatened by floodwaters from a rain-swollen river in the Roman Catholic shrine town of Lourdes. (AP Photo/Bob ...
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TenCate Signs Up for Collaborations with Airbus and Fokker at Paris Air Show
Today at the Paris Air Show in France the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, Henk Kamp, is signing a letter of intent (LOI) for the proposed extension of the Thermoplastic Affordable Primary Aircraft Structure consortium (TAPAS), in which eight Dutch companies and institutes from the aviation industry, ...
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Woman drowned in raging floods
A WOMAN has been drowned in floods that swept through towns and villages in the Pyrenees, flooding the grottoes at Lourdes and seen 2,000 people ...
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Strong video calls for smacking ban
A GRAPHIC new campaign to ban smacking and physical punishment of children has caused upset after TV broadcasts of a video calling for France to come in line with an 1998 EU ruling to end maltreatment of youngsters.The campaign, by ...
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Frances Societe Generale opens NE China branch
The Societe Generale (SG), a French multinational banking and financial services company, opened its seventh branch on the Chinese mainland on Wednesday in the city of Harbin in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province."The operation of the Harbin branch is another milestone in SG's 32-year-presence in China," said Jackson Cheung, CEO of SG China Ltd.The expansion of SG ...
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New map warns of mosquito bites
MOSQUITO victims could get some warning of when to stock up on anti-mossie cream in a new website alert system.The site, which aims to give a department by department warning of where there is heavy mosquito infestation, uses daily updates from 2,000 pharmacies across the country who report on customers with bites.As the summer starts to heat up across most of the country, just one department is ...
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Syria crisis France open to Iran attending Geneva talks
o Hollande says Iran welcome at Geneva if it is constructiveo G8 communique on Syria barely papers over crackso Violence spills over into Lebanon in clashes in ...
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4 detained in beating of French man
/enpproperty--> Friction on the dance floor, rather than racism, is behind a physical conflict outside a bar in downtown Shanghai last week in which a French man suffered a head injury and bruises, police said on Tuesday. In a telephone interview, a spokesman for the Shanghai Public Security Bureau said that four Chinese men have been detained in the alleged attack on the French man, ...
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Jacko’s girl Paris testifies
Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris - still in the hospital recovering from a suicide attempt - testified in her father’s wrongful-death trial via a prerecorded video yesterday.The 15-year-old, who is suing promoter AEG Live along with her grandmother and siblings, was questioned under oath in October about her former nanny, Grace Rwaramba. The family claims that AEG fired Rwaramba - ...
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Mindshare Worldwides Nick Emery on big data - Cannes Lions video
Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity how big data is transforming the advertising industry. Data allows advertisers to converse more with their audiences - but Emery cautions that intuition and creativity in applying this information is still what separates success and ...
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First Ghana France Higher Education Conference opens
Accra, June 18, GNA - Professor Naana Jane Opoku- Agyemeng, Minister of Education on Tuesday said Government welcomes discussions on the need for a Council for Higher Education and Research solely dedicated to the core business of Universities and Research institutions in ...
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Syria peace talks delayed after Putin unyielding
Syrian peace talks will be delayed after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to boycott talks that assume President Bashar Assad will resign, officials said. The international peace conference in Geneva, Switzerland, proposed by Washington and Moscow six weeks ago to be held as soon as May is now likely to be delayed until September, a Western official told several news organizations after ...
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Paris Jacksons suicide attempt reignites family feud
A source told the Radar Online that everyone in the family was invited to Taj Jackson's wedding but Randy and Jackie chose not to attend.The source further revealed that tensions still exist between the brothers, sisters and their mother Katherine and many have turned on each other.Katherine, who lost full guardianship of the children when she was in Arizona unable to be contacted by family ...
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Analysis French EU-wariness complicates life for Hollande
PARIS (Reuters) - A feeling in France that the European Union no longer works in its interest is fueling tensions between Paris and Brussels and adding pressure on President Francois Hollande to be more assertive in ...
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French Alcatel-Lucent cuts costs plans asset sales
IP networking products and very high-speed broadband in both fixed and mobile. These promising new products will be managed to maximise growth, while other older fixed and mobile products will be "managed for cash", the company said. Alcatel-Lucent competes with ...
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Sufouh Tram test run held in France
Trials of Al Sufouh Tram to be operated in Dubai were held in France on a 700-km-long test track.Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), watched the technical test in the facilities of Alstom Company in France. During the trial run, which was done at various speeds, tests on the safety system, electric propulsion of the coaches, ...
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Soccer Stars Are at Center of Paris Prostitution Case
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Paris Jackson testifies in AEG case by video
Paris Jackson -- who is still the hospital recovering from her recent suicide attempt -- testified via videotape today in the trial over her father's death four years ago. The 15-year-old, who is suing AEG live along with her granmorher and her siblings, was questioned under oath last October about her former nanny, Grace Rwaramba. Lawyers for the Jackson family had hinted Rwaramba had been ...
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French amphibious assault vessel visits Vietnam
The French Navy's most modern amphibious assault vessel, Tonnerre, docked at Baria Serece port in Vietnam's southern coastal Ba Ria-Vung Tau province on Tuesday, Vietnam's state-run news agency reported.Tonnerre along with the anti-submarine frigate Georges Leygues, which docked at Ho Chi Minh City's port, are visiting Vietnam as part of activities to mark the 40th ...
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Ads that make a difference honored in Cannes
Advertising ad nauseam can be annoying, but sometimes it's good for society. These marketing campaigns took top honors at the Cannes Lions International Festival of ...
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Le Carpe Diem crêperie provides a taste of home for French expats in Adelaide
ADELAIDE is awash with crepes, pastries and other sweet and savoury creations, as a flurry of French cafes open their doors across the city. Le Carpe Diem is the latest French cafe to open in Adelaide over the past 12 months, joining Goodwood's L'Atelier Gourmand, Hyde Park's Mulots Patisserie and Gallic CBD nosh spots Hey Jupiter and Au Matin Calme as favourites with SA-based ...
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JTF Frees French Sailor In Bayelsa
By SaharaReporters, New York The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta today revealed that its operatives had freed a French sailor kidnapped on June 13 in the Ekeremor local government area of Bayelsa State. The 28-year old sailor, Benjamin Élan, was among 15 missing crewmen of a tanker, MT Adour, which was attacked by suspected pirates on June 13 thirty nautical miles off Lome, the ...
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Deals of the week - Budget chic hostel Lake Garda Biarritz
Safestay, the budget-chic hostel in Elephant & Castle, London, is celebrating its first birthday by releasing dorm beds for 1 per person, per night. The deal is valid for Sunday stays in July; the first batch of bookings is released on Sunday 30 ...
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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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