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Tour de France: Police search for missing fan who caused huge crash with sign
The spectator responsible reportedly fled the scene and is yet to be found by authorities
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French spyware bosses indicted for their role in the torture of dissidents
An investigation into the sale of surveillance technologies to Libya and Egypt has led to charges against leaders at one company.
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13 on trial in Paris for cyberbullying, threats against teen
Thirteen people went on trial Thursday in Paris accused of cyberbullying or death threats against a teenage girl who posted online comments critical of Islam.
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Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
The farmer moved a two-century-old border stone into French territory as it was blocking his tractor.
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France bans air travel that could be done by train in under 2.5 hours
France has a well-developed train network, and the ban only affects five routes.
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Louvre museum makes its entire collection available online
The Louvre museum in Paris said Friday it has put nearly half a million items from its collection online for the public to visit free of charge. As part of a major revamp of its online presence, the world's most-visited museum has created a new database of 482,000 items at collections.louvre.fr with more than three-quarters already labelled with information and pictures.
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French monks locked down with 2.8 tonnes of cheese pray for buyers
Raw-milk product normally sold only to restaurants or visitors to Cîteaux Abbey is marketed online
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France fells oaks to rebuild the Notre-Dame spire
In a former royal forest, tree surgeons on Monday began felling centuries-old oak trees which will be used to rebuild the wooden-framed spire of Notre-Dame de Paris after it was destroyed by fire.
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Millions of websites offline after fire at French cloud services firm
A fire at a French cloud services firm has disrupted millions of websites, knocking out government agencies’ portals, banks, shops, news websites and taking out a chunk of the .FR web space, according to internet monitors.
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France conducts first military exercises in space
The French military will carry out drills to test the capabilities of its Space Command in tackling threats to its satellites. The exercises are part of France's strategy to become the world's third-largest space power.
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French startup lobby to file privacy complaint against Apple
France Digitale will file a complaint against iPhone maker Apple with data privacy watchdog CNIL on Tuesday over alleged breaches of European Union rules, France’s leading startup lobby said in a statement.
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The Majority of France Would Legalise Recreational Cannabis
Just days after a French MP called for cannabis reforms, and even a referendum in France, the results of a government online survey on the subject are in.
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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to jail for corruption
A court has found Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling and sentenced the former French president to three years in prison with two of them suspended. France’s president from 2007 to 2012 was accused of forging a “corruption pact” with his lawyer and a senior magistrate. Judges said there was “serious evidence” of collaboration between the three men to break the law.
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In France, Apple now shows how hard its products are to repair
Apple's products haven't typically been the easiest to repair, though the company is making progress on this front. But being able to repair a product (or at least have a third party professional do it) is an important part of the experience of owning that product, and now Apple is at least forced to acknowledge it.
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Van Gogh Paris painting goes on public display for first time
The street scene of Montmartre has been owned by the same French family for more than 100 years.
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French bank will stop financing companies that exploit deforested land in the Amazon
Continuing a trend of European businesses moving independently to protect the Amazon, France’s BNP Paribas announced it will no longer finance companies that buy cattle or soy produced on deforested or converted Amazon lands after 2008. The measure also applies to deforested lands in Brazil’s Cerrado region, a threatened tropical savanna eco-region covering 20% of Brazil that has lost half its land to agricultural clearing.
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Soldiers who fought in Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign are buried
The remains of over a hundred French and Russian soldiers who died during Napoleon's disastrous 1812 campaign were finally buried on Saturday.
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World's second-oldest person survives COVID-19 at age 116
PARIS (AP) — A 116-year-old French nun who is believed to be the world’s second-oldest person has survived COVID-19 and is looking forward to celebrating her 117th birthday on Thursday.
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France has passed a law protecting the sounds and smells of the countryside
France has passed a law protecting the "sensory heritage" of its rural areas, in the face of complaints about the noises and smells typical of the countryside.
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France has passed a law protecting the sounds and smells of the countryside
France has passed a law protecting the "sensory heritage" of its rural areas, in the face of complaints about the noises and smells typical of the countryside. Senators voted to approve the law, which passed through the lower house of parliament last year, on Thursday, according to a statement from Joël Giraud, the Minister for Rural Affairs.
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