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Armed robbers burst into the prestigious Paris jeweler Harry Winston, located near the world-famous Champs Elysees avenue, snatching jewels worth 80 million euros (100 million dollars), French police said.
Leading opposition figures and economists alike questioned the feasibility and relevance of President Nicolas Sarkozy's recently unveiled stimulus package, suggesting the plan was more an exercise in damage control than a turnaround.
France's unemployment rate in France rose 0.1% in the third quarter to reach 7.3%, according to the national statistics body INSEE. The under 25-year-olds are particularly hit, with 18.7% seeking work in a worsening job market.
China's foreign ministry said the scheduled meeting of French President Nicolas Sarkozy with the Dalai Lama in Poland on Saturday threatened multi-billion-dollar trade ties between the countries.
French aid worker Dany Egreteau, who was kidnapped a month ago in the Afghan capital Kabul, has been released and will be flown back home to Paris late Thursday, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday.
A French judge decided Wednesday to reopen one of France's darkest murder mysteries in the hope that DNA tests can help find the killer of Gregory Villemin, who was found drowned in 1984, when he was four years old.
French workers and employers cast their ballots to elect new members for the country?s industrial tribunals, in charge of ruling on labour disputes.Trade unions hope France?s workforce will show up en masse, but opinion polls say otherwise.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy distanced himself from the arrest of journalist Vittorio de Filippis on libel charges and said he would push for a review of defamation laws following criticism that the arrest was intended to intimidate the press.
French-Polish film director Roman Polanski has asked a US court to drop a statutory rape charge against him dating from 1977. Polanski was arrested after the parents of a 13-year-old girl filed a complaint and remains a fugitive from the USA.
The presidents of Gabon, Congo and Equatorial Guinea are being investigated in France by anti-corruption groups which accuse them of embezzling public funds to acquire luxury homes in France.
Traffic is blocked for the sixth straight day in the French overseas territory as hauliers and consumers call for a 50-cent cut in petrol prices. Local schools and airports are also affected.
France should not recognise the "right to die", according to politician and doctor Jean Leonetti, blocking the way for France to become a destination for those looking to die. France should, however, recognise the right "to let die".
Eunice Barber, former heptathlon and long jump world champion, was found guilty of resisting arrest and biting a police officer. The 34-year-old French athlete, who was also fined 5,000 euros, says she is planning to appeal the verdict.
The Airbus A-310, equipped with full medical facilities, was transporting 29 French nationals, 19 Italians, 17 Spaniards and five Germans, among others. It landed at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport on Saturday afternoon.
Loumia Hiridjee, founder of a French lingerie line, and her husband Mourad Amarsy were among the victims of the Mumbai terror attacks, the company's president has announced. The highly coordinated attacks left over 170 people dead.
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