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France opens archives on Rwanda genocide
The archives concern the work of former president Francois Mitterrand and his prime minister Edouard Balladur between 1990 and 1904 when the genocide began,...
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Paris medics fear worst of Covid wave still to come
As one recovered elderly patient is being wheeled out of the ward, smiling weakly, boss Jean-Pierre Deyme is on the phone arranging the next arrival and calling out instructions to staff.
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Macron announces school closures and defends strategy
In an address to the nation, he tightened restrictions significantly on Wednesday, ordering schools shut down, travel restrictions across France, and the closure of non-essential shops around the country.
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'Blind' France bears responsibility in Rwanda genocide, report says
A historical commission set up by President Emmanuel Macron concluded there had been a 'failure' on the part of France under former leader Francois Mitterrand over the genocide that saw around 800,000 people slaughtered, mainly from the ethnic Tutsi minority.
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Germany to list France as COVID-19 high-risk zone
The decision will come into force on Friday and be announced by the national health institute, the Robert Koch Institute, according to the newspaper FAZ.
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UK could add France to 'red list' over variants: PM
France is struggling with a third wave of cases and on Wednesday expanded virus lockdowns to three more areas including the city of Lyon.
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Parisians flee capital, hit shops as new lockdown looms
Trains leaving Montparnasse station in southern Paris - which serves destinations in Brittany and the southwest - were completely full after a rush of bookings late Thursday.
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France's Sarkozy on trial again after graft conviction
On 1 March, the 66-year-old became France's first post-war president to be sentenced to prison when he was given a three-year term, two years of which were suspended, for corruption and influence peddling.
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French billionaire MP Olivier Dassault dies in helicopter crash
Dassault died around 6 pm (1700 GMT) when his aircraft crashed near Deauville in northern France, parliamentary and investigation sources told AFP.
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Macron admits France murdered Algerian independence figure
Macron met four of the grandchildren of Ali Boumendjel and admitted 'in the name of France' that the lawyer had been detained, tortured and killed in Algiers on 23 March 1957, his office said Tuesday.
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French ex-president Sarkozy convicted for corruption
The sentence includes two years suspended, which means it is unlikely Sarkozy will physically go to prison.
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Germany to tighten COVID-19 controls at French border
France's eastern Moselle region is now classed as an area "at particularly high risk of infection due to widespread occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 virus variants", Germany's Robert Koch Institute for disease control announced.
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France makes period products free for students
Higher Education Minister Frederique Vidal said that machines containing free tampons, sanitary towels and other period products would be installed in student residences and university health services in the coming weeks.
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French court sentences four over 2009 Madonna stage collapse
A judge in the southern city of Marseille, where the concert was to take place, convicted the four of involuntary manslaughter and injuries, while acquitting three others ordered to stand trial.
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Borders tightened as coronavirus curfew fury spills over
The United States was set to join France, Israel and Sweden in pulling up the drawbridge to certain arrivals, with special concern about new strains of the pathogen that originated in Britain and South Africa.
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Google signs deal on copyright payments to French press
The accord signed with the APIG alliance of French dailies involves "neighbouring rights," which call for payment for showing news content with internet searches, a joint statement said.
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French Muslim groups deal blow to Macron's anti-extremism charter
The charter rejects "instrumentalising" Islam for political ends and affirms equality between men and women, while denouncing practices such as female circumcisions, forced marriages or "virginity certificates" for brides.
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Hundreds booked for COVID-19 violations as illegal mass French NYE rave ends
The country recorded around 20,000 new cases and 133 deaths on Friday, bringing the total number of fatalities to almost 64,800.
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France detects case of South African coronavirus variant
The 501.V2 Variant was detected by South African authorities in mid-December.
