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An Egyptian security official said Saturday that the country had expelled about 20 French muslims over the last month, thought to be connected with an attack on Cairo's Kah al-Khalili bazaar in February.
French police arrested Saturday three suspected members of the outlawed Basque separatist group ETA near the southern city of Pau, close to the Spanish border.
A French court has sentenced Algerian-born rai singer Cheb Mami, also known as the "Prince of Rai", to five years in jail for attempting to force his ex-girlfriend to have an abortion in Algeria in 2005.
The Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic with 228 people on board on June 1 did not break up mid-air but hit the water while accelerating sharply downward, France?s Office of Investigations and Analysis revealed Thursday.
A passenger train derailed near the south-western French city of Limoges late Friday after ramming into a trailer, injuring 13 people with six suffering serious wounds, according to police officials.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy (right, pictured with Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner) held talks in Stockholm with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country took over the rotating EU presidency on July 1.
After days of protests at the Marseille airport by angry Comorans following Tuesday?s plane crash off the Comoros islands, Yemenia Airways announced it was suspending flights to and from the Mediterranean port city.
A family court judge on Friday ordered the parents of a three-year-old Franco-Russian girl at the centre of an international custody battle to come to an agreement before considering their respective demands.
French-Algerian pop star Cheb Mami appears in a Paris court today on charges of attempting a forced abortion on his former partner. He was arrested on Monday after evading capture for two years in Algeria.
Ten suspects from the 2007 Villiers-le-Bel riots appeared before a court today, on charges of stone-throwing and ambushing the police. The riots, sparked by the death of two youths, had injured nearly a hundred police officers.
A day after she was plucked from the sea, 12-year-old Bahia Bakari, the only known survivor of the doomed Yemenia Airlines plane that crashed off the Comoros Islands, arrived in Paris to join her father after surviving for 10 hours in the ocean.
French restaurants are expected to cut prices on meals and soft drinks after the government slashed value added tax from 19.6% to a lowly 5.5%. The move, approved by the European Union, follows years of French lobbying in Brussels.
More than a week after French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the Islamic burqa was not welcome in France, a message allegedly posted by al Qaeda?s North African branch vowed of revenge against the country, according to a cyber security site.
French prosecutors sought a life sentence for Youssouf Fofana, the leader of a Paris gang known as "The Barbarians" who kidnapped, tortured and murdered a young Jewish man in February 2006. The court's verdict is due on July 11.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement defending his ultranationalist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (photo, at left) following Israeli media reports that French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Netanyahu to fire Lieberman.
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