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Air France A350 order back on after spat sources
PARIS (Reuters) - Air France (AIRF.PA) looks poised to sign a long-awaited $7 billion deal to buy 25 Airbus (EAD.PA) A350 jets after talks narrowly avoided collapse, industry sources said on Tuesday. Air France has been at loggerheads with its suppliers over issues mainly including maintenance of the plane's Rolls-Royce (RR.L) engines ever since the deal was first mooted in 2011. Further ...
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Kidnapped French sailor freed in Nigeria
French sailor Benjamin Elman, who was kidnapped last week, is pictured after his release on June 18, 2013 in Yenagoa, southern Nigeria. Elman was taken from a tanker in Togo when attackers sought to use him as a ...
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Frances Hollande open to Iranian presence at Syria talks
Paris had previously ruled out Iran taking part in the proposed conference, saying Tehran had no desire for peace and would use the Syria talks to detract from negotiations later in the year with major powers over ...
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Obama makes no mention of arming Syrian rebels after meeting with French president Hollande
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland - President Barack Obama says he and French President Francois Hollande agree they have strong evidence of chemical weapon use by the Syrian government. But he's not publicly mentioning their current differing positions over whether to arm rebels. Obama said the two leaders agree on the need to build a strong opposition that can function after Syrian leader ...
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World Briefing | Europe Muslim Woman Suffers Miscarriage After Attack in France
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French Footballers Underage Prostitute Trial Adjourned to 2014
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Tribute to French Art Director for Promoting Cuban Culture
Paris, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) Diplomats, officials, and intellectuals attended in this capital today a tribute to artistic director and film director Dominique Roland, recently awarded with the medal for the Cuban Culture. Roland, director of the Center for the Arts in Enghien-les-Bains, a commune in northern Paris, has dedicated more than 20 years to promote the Cuban music. Thanks to this ...
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Boeing Airbus Wing to Wing in Paris
The latest chapter in the storied aviation rivalry between Boeing and Airbus ramped up this week in Paris, where the jetmakers' fight over the widebody jet market has become a top plot line at the 2013 Paris Air Show. The high-profile event kicked off in Le Bourget, just outside Paris, Monday morning, barely 72 hours after Airbus made the maiden flight on its new-age A350 model. ...
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60 seconds on Earth Parisian hipsters on bikes
Editor's note: 60 Seconds on Earth is a regular GlobalPost series where our correspondents in the field produce video snapshots of the places and people that we find important, impressive, crazy or just unmistakably cool. This is the first ...
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France bundles Thales support contracts
France's Ministry of Defense has contracted Thales for support services for company electronic systems aboard its military aircraft. The five-year contract is known as MOREAT and combines several earlier contracts. No monetary value was given. Under the award, Thales will provide technical and logistic support and through-life support services to Thales electronic warfare systems and ...
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Al Tayer watches test run of Al-Sufouh Tram in France
WAM DUBAI, June 18th, 2013 (WAM)--Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), has recently watched the technical test run of Al Sufouh Tram conducted on a 700 km-long test track in the facilities of Alstom Company in France. During the trial run, which was conducted at various speeds, the tests carried out covered the safety ...
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France plans fund to ease burden of toxic municipal loans
Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:01pm EDT * Fund would help local authorities with structured loans * French state eager to prevent wave of costly lawsuits PARIS, June 18 (Reuters) - The French government will set up a special fund to help the numerous local authorities that are struggling with the burden of "toxic" loans, the finance ministry said on Tuesday. The fund is to be set up with local ...
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Russia signs first contract at Paris Air Show
Planes The Russian delegation has landed its first deal at the Paris air show, selling all-weather K-52 Alligator helicopter gunships to Iraqi officials. Airplanes of all shapes, sizes, and nationalities have taken to the Parisian sky this week at 50th Le Bourget air show, and Russia has concluded its first sales on day two of the bi-annual exhibition. The Iraqi order is part of a $4 ...
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Serge Gainsbourg impersonator sentenced for stabbing Johnny Hallyday rival
An impersonator of the late Serge Gainsbourg has been sentenced to two years in prison for stabbing a rival lookalike of the veteran French rock star Johnny ...
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Lourdes evacuated after flash floods
French authorities have shut the sanctuary ringing the cave at Lourdes, whose spring water many Catholics believe can miraculously cure illness, and evacuated about 200 people after flash floods on ...
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Michel Hazanavicius Defends French Position on Cultural Exception in U.S.-E.U. Trade Talks
France Mulls Smartphone and Tablet Tax to Fund Culture "This is indicative of those people who are not elected and govern Europe with great arrogance and conceit," said Hazanavicius in an interview with radio Europe 1 on Tuesday. "This way of working alone without listening to anyone creates European dogma but no European ...
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French MP calls for Barroso to resign
French MP and Vice President of the Rarty of European Socialists, Jean-Christophe Cambadelis said European Commission head, Jose Barroso should resign after calling the French 'reactionary' on trade talks. The remarks were made after Paris won concessions on thew EU - US trade talks, having gained an excemption for culture, which the state subsidises and supports through rationing film ...
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2 French football stars on trial for sex with underage prostitute
This combination of AFP file images shows French international footballers Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema (L). Two French international footballers Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema went on trial on June 18, 2013 in Paris charged with paying for sex with an underage prostitute. AFP PHOTO PARIS -- The trial of French football stars Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema for having sex with an underage ...
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French footballers Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema in court over charges of paying for sex with under-age prostitute
Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribery and Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema both deny the allegations and the young woman involved, Zahia Dehar, testified that neither player knew she was under 18 at the time.Under French law, the age of consent is 15 but paid sex with anyone less than 18-years-old is classified as sex with a minor and the pair face up to three years in prison and a maximum fine of ...
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France St-Louis added as Olympic assistant chef de mission
Olympic hockey silver medallist and former Team Canada captain France St-Louis will be an assistant chef de mission at Sochi. (Kevork Djansezian/Associated ...
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French Footballers On Trial Over Sex Claims
French international footballers Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema have gone on trial charged with paying for sex with an underage prostitute. Bayern Munich winger Ribery and Real Madrid forward Benzema face up to three years in prison and a maximum €45,000 (£38,500) fine if ...
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Australian woman seeks diagnosis on French accent
15/07/2012 11:44 CET An Australian woman is seeking a clear diagnosis on whether or not she has an extremely rare condition described as foreign accent syndrome. Leanne Rowe from Tasmania claims a bus crash eight years ago left her with a French accent, even though she’s never been to France. Doctors say the syndrome is caused by tissue damage to part of the brain, affecting ...
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Vivendi urges France Telecom to bid for Maroc Telecom
French media group Vivendi is reportedly urging France Telecom-Orange (FT-Orange) to place a bid for Vivendi's controlling stake in Moroccan incumbent telco Maroc Telecom, the Wall Street Journal reported. According to people familiar with the matter, FT-Orange has been contemplating a potential bid for the North African telco for months, though no decision has been made yet. A spokesman ...
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Reshoring initiative by the French government
The French Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg announced the establishment of Colber 2 platform, as part of the Reshoring initiative by the French government. The French Reshoring initiative resembles to the US and Swedish efforts to persuade companies that took jobs overseas to return to their country of origin. The mission of the Reshoring Initiative both in France and the US is to bring ...
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Shazam CEO Rich Riley on second screens - Cannes Lions 2013 video
Rich Riley, CEO of the music identification app company Shazam, tells John Plunkett how tablets and phones can augment television advertising. Shazam is working with advertising agencies to develop its service to identify television ads and provide an immersive experience for viewers watching with a second ...
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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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