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Doi Tatishvili advance on upsets at Strasbourg International
Misaki Doi and Anna Tatishvili claimed upset wins Wednesday in second-round play of the Strasbourg International tennis tournament in France. Doi ousted fourth-seeded Hsieh 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7-3). Doi won three more points (119-116) than Hsieh in the match, fewer than the four point-difference by which she won the tiebreaker. Tatishvili took out ...
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Ryan Gosling Stands Up Cannes Film Festival Fest Reciprocates with Mixed Reviews Broken Hearts
knitting enthusiast was notably, upsettingly absent today: Ryan Gosling, whose new film, Only God Forgives, premiered there earlier today. On Tuesday, the movie's director, Nicolas Winding Refn, gave ...
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IMF Chief Lagarde to Appear Before French Courts
Paris, May 22 (Prensa Latina) International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde will be grilled Thursday by prosecutors investigating her alleged involvement in a corruption case occurred during her time as French finance minister. Lagarde will appear before the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), which probes cases of ministerial misconduct, to explain her 2007 handling of a row that ...
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Cannes Diary Delusions Of Gatsby
which writer Raj Ranade says has set a high bar for other contenders at this year's Cannes Film Festival. It's true enough that ...
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Behind the Candelabra gets raves at Cannes
Steven Soderbergh’s ';Behind the Candelabra ,'; made through the premium cable channel after Soderbergh couldn’t find an interested U.S. distributor, screened last night at Cannes to a enthusiastic reception ...
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France May Allow English-Language Courses In Universities
Demonstrators hold placards as they rally from the Pantheon square towards the National Assembly on May 22, 2013 in Paris, during a protest against a draft law by the French government for higher education. (JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP/Getty ...
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Cannes Sundance Selects Nabs Blue Is the Warmest Color From Wild Bunch
centers on a 15-year-old girl named Adèle who dreams of finding the love of her life. When she meets Thomas -- a dark, handsome, friendly stranger who falls for her instantly -- her dream seems to have come true. But an unsettling erotic reverie upsets the romance before it begins. Adèle imagines that the mysterious, blue-haired girl she encountered in the street slips into her bed ...
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The Cannes Festival means its party-time on the French Riviera
20/05/2013 05:44 CET The magic of the Cannes Film Festival lies of course with the red carpet and the movies, but there are also secret places for the privileged where only the favoured have access. Euronews reporter Frederic Ponsard managed to bag himself an invitation to one of the top soirees. While glamour, a jewel heist and of course the movies have been grabbing the headlines this week ...
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YouTube CEO is Cannes Lions Media Person of the Year
Every year, the so-called Oscars of the advertising world bestows this honor on an influential figure in media whose innovation plays a larger role in shaping the industry. The past three recipients of the award were Jack Dorsey, Eric Schmidt and Mark ...
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UPDATE 1-Vivendi names new management for SFR
Wed May 22, 2013 1:17pm EDT (Adds details on SFR targets, possible IPO) PARIS May 22 (Reuters) - Media and telecoms conglomerate Vivendi has appointed Jean-Yves Charlier as chief executive of French telecome operator SFR, its largest unit, where profits are under pressure from a mobile price war. Charlier, a former board member of Vivendi, has been piloting the group's telecom strategy since ...
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Famed French composer Dutilleux dies at 97
FRANCE'S Henri Dutilleux, whose modernist and impressionist works ranked him among the leading composers of the 20th century, has died in Paris aged 97, his family has announced. The internationally renowned Dutilleux, born in Angers in 1916, was a composer of predominantly instrumental works ranging from symphonies, orchestral pieces, violin concertos and piano music. His latest work ...
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Kill Mittal game lets French workers vent fury
Broken relations between the French and steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal have found a new expression - an online video game called 'Kill ...
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Los Angeles calls upon star French designers for Figaro opera
By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES | Wed May 22, 2013 1:01pm EDT LOS ANGELES May 22 (Reuters) - Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines. It is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." But unlike ...
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Germans French eye plan to create jobs for young
Germany's labor minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said Wednesday that she and her French counterpart will meet in Paris next week along with the countries' finance ministers and European industry representatives to discuss the initiative. On July 3, Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to host a meeting of the 27 European Union nations' labor ministers and national labor agency heads in ...
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Cannes 2013 Muhammad Alis Greatest Fight – first look review
Charisma corrective ...Footage of Muhammad Ali, seen here in 1967 declaring his refusal to accept the Vietnam draft, overshadows Frears's film. Photograph: ...
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No.7 out of French Open
Argentina's world No.7 Juan Martin del Potro has pulled out of the French Open with an ongoing viral infection.Del Potro is the second top 10 ranked ATP player to withdraw from the second Grand Slam of 2013 following world No.2 Andy Murray's decision on Tuesday to pull out due to a back injury."This is a tough blow, because these are the events you dream of winning," Del ...
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ECBs Weidmann tells France - Dont repeat budget mistakes
PARIS (Reuters) - France must step up reforms to rein in its budget deficit, Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann said in a magazine interview, urging Paris to avoid repeating "the mistakes of the past." The European Commission has proposed that EU ...
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Femen protester stages mock suicide at Notre Dame cathedral
Inna Schevchenko, Femen's leader, said the Notre Dame protest, above, was a message to all those backing fascism. Photograph: Kenzo ...
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Cannes Review J.C. Chandors All Is Lost
Cannes: 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom' Sells to U.K., Other Markets Redford’s exceptional performance will serve as the primary commercial calling card for Lionsgate upon October ...
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A Beautiful Unbreakable French Press Made From A Mason Jar
You don't have to be a coffee snob to know that French presses are delicate. Anyone who's ever so much as picked up one of the java brewers knows that the glass beakers are incredibly, almost uncomfortably, thin. But Mason jars? Sure, they're ubiquitous, and yeah, they can be a bit twee, but those babies are nothing if not sturdy. Bryan Kappa and Rob Story, the creative and ...
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France says Syrias Assad must give up power to end war
Bashar al-Assad must turn over power to a transitional government in order for a U.S. and Russian-backed peace conference to have any chance of success, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday. "It is perfectly clear that the main aim of this possible conference is to bring in a transitional government for Syria which will have the full executive power," Fabius said ...
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INTERVIEW-Italys Eni chips away at monolithic French gas market
Wed May 22, 2013 12:28pm EDT * Eni wins 50,000 gas customers in eight months * Raises forecast to 650,000 customers by 2016 * Tough market for new entrants, says CEO * Obstacles are govt policy and GDF Suez dominance By Geert De Clercq and Benjamin Mallet PARIS, May 22 (Reuters) - Every day about 500 French consumers sign up with Italian gas vendor Eni as it chips away at the near-total ...
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Germanys Bundesbank chief says France must cut deficit
PARIS (AFP) - The head of Germany's Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, said France needs to make additional efforts to reduce its public deficit, in an interview published Wednesday.France was originally supposed to bring its public deficit back to the EU's ceiling of 3.0 percent of gross domestic product, but has won a two-year extension from the European Commission.Given that the Commission, ...
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Cannes James Franco builds a bookish filmography
But this week at the Cannes Film Festival, he premiered his version of William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying," a novel of fractured perspectives and enormous cinematic challenges. Having earlier screened at Cannes a short film he made as a student at New York University ("The Clerk's Tale"), coming to the festival in the Un Certain Regard section - for innovating or ...
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Karl Lagerfelds Fendi fountain photos to be exhibited
Photographs taken by Fendi's creative director Karl Lagerfeld as part of the brand's 'Fendi for Fountains' initiative will be showcased in Paris this ...
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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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