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French police charged over black man's beating as Macron seeks crisis exit
The attack on Michel Zecler - which was caught on camera - has become a new rallying cause for critics of the police, who accuse the force of institutionalised...
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Four more students charged in France over teacher's beheading
Three other pupils were charged with complicity earlier this month over the beheading last month of Paty, who had shown his students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad as part of a lesson on free speech.
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Crunch time for France's Sarkozy as graft trial opens
Charged with bribery and influence peddling, Nicolas Sarkozy risks a prison sentence of up to 10 years and a maximum fine of one million euros ($1.2 million).
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Frenchman gets 25-year jail term for killing wife, burning body
Jonathann Daval finally confessed to beating his wife to death and burning her body in the woods after initially reporting her missing.
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Ethics charter for French porn scene after abuse claims
The charter will set out how to deal with issues of consent for sex, actors' physical and psychological health, legal protection, human dignity, and distribution rights.
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France 'still far' from ending partial COVID-19 lockdown
Declines in daily new COVID-19 cases since a second nationwide lockdown began on 30 October have sparked a chorus of calls from business associations to let stores open as soon as 27 November for the 'Black Friday' sales that kick off the holiday shopping season.
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Pakistani Islamists end anti-France protest after govt talks
Ultra-conservative Pakistan has seen scattered protests since French President Emmanuel Macron defended the right to criticise Islam as part of freedom of speech, triggering anger across the Muslim world.
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'Charlie Hebdo' trial adjourned again as main accused unwell
The new delay further sets back the timetable for the trial and it is unclear when the verdict - which was supposed to have been handed down last week - will be announced.
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Macron urges 'rapid and coordinated' European response to terror
Such a response should focus on 'the development of common databases, the exchange of information or the strengthening of criminal policies,' French President Emmanuel Macron said after hosting a video conference with fellow EU leaders.
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Mockery, bias & admiration: How the world has reacted to US vote
The hotly contested US election race between US President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden has elicited a range of reactions from other nations.
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France fighting Islamist extremism, not Islam: Macron
The French president sparked protests across the Muslim world after last month's murder of teacher Samuel Paty - who had shown his class a cartoon of Muhammad - by saying France would never renounce its laws permitting blasphemous caricatures.
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Europe's coronavirus infections top 11 million
Still reeling from a deadly shooting spree in the streets of Vienna on Monday evening, Austria went into partial lockdown while Greece shut down major cities.
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Shocked France bolsters security after church killings
The bloodshed inside Nice's Notre-Dame basilica early Thursday morning added new tension in a country already on the highest alert after a string of attacks blamed on suspected Islamists in recent weeks.
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Anti-France protests draw thousands in Asia, Middle East
Smaller anti-France protests also took place in the Middle East after Macron's defence of the right to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad - a position that has sparked anger across the Muslim world.
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Counter 'hate speech', UN rights chief says after France slayings
Michelle Bachelet voiced outrage at the attack Thursday in a church in Nice, where a knife attacker killed three people, cutting the throat of at least one woman.
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Macron vows defiance after 'Islamist' knife attack in church kills 3
The assailant, who was shot and wounded by police, was identified as 21-year-old Brahim Aouissaoui, who arrived in Italy last month, then travelled to France, judicial sources said.
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Saudi Arabia 'strongly condemns' knife attack in France
A knife-wielding man killed three people at a church in Nice on Thursday, slitting the throat of at least one of them, in an attack that triggered global shock.
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'Hard choices' as France weighs new virus clampdown
The French government has been loath to impose a new lockdown that would pummel the economy even harder, and business chiefs have warned a total shutdown would force another wave of layoffs and bankruptcies.
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Muslims 'not persecuted' in France, says country's Muslim council
French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to take the fight to Islamist radicals after the 16 October beheading of a history teacher who had shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to pupils in a class discussion on free speech.
