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Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho suspended for 30 days

UEFA has provisionally suspended Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho for 30 days after he failed an anti-doping test. The 26-year-old France

France

Paris attacks suspect Abdelslam at high-security Paris prison

Key suspect in the Paris Attacks, Salah Abdelslam, has spent his first night at Europe’s biggest prison. He will be kept in solitary confinement at

Belgium

Salah Abdeslam 'as bright as an empty ashtray', says his lawyer

“He has the intelligence of an empty ashtray, he is abysmally vacuous.” That was the stinging character assassination of Salah Abdeslam, the man

Sport

Squash: World number one Elshorbagy into El Gouna last eight

World number one and home hope Mohamed Elshorbagy advanced to the quarter-finals of the last PSA World Series event of the season in El Gouna

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Cinema

Best foot forward for Millepied in documentary 'Reset'

Benjamin Millepied's tenure at Paris' premier ballet company is the subject of a new documentary by French filmmakers Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai.

Economy

Surprise fall in French jobless total, but underlying trend still grim

The number of people claiming unemployment benefit dropped by 60,000 in March, but much of the decline came from people not updating their job-seeking status so they were not counted.

France

Dutch "horror dentist" jailed for mutilating many mouths in France

A Dutchman known as the “horror dentist” for mutilating the mouths of more than 100 patients has been sentenced to eight years in France. Jacobus

France

Australia chooses France for lucrative submarines contract

Australia has chosen France to build a new fleet of submarines, rejecting Japanese and German bids

Sport

Liverpool defender Sakho benched after failed drugs test

Liverpool have benched their France international player Mamadou Sakho following a failed drugs test. The English Premier League side confirmed that

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Terrorist attack simulation in Cannes before film festival

French authorities staged a security exercise around the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, just a few weeks before the opening of its film festival

France

Police hold attack drill on Cannes red carpet ahead of film festival

French authorities staged a security exercise around the Palais des Festivals in Cannes on Thursday (April 21) in preparation for May’s grand cinema

Cinema

Sky: a journey through America, a voyage of discovery and new beginnings

Sky tells the story about a French woman, Romy (played by Diane Kruger), who is on holiday in the United States with her abusive husband Richard

France

France to extend state of emergency ahead of Euro football tournament

Hours before the announcement, security forces simulated an attack in a major Paris train station.

Egypt

Hollande raises issue of human rights in Egypt

French President Francois Hollande has raised the issue of human rights on his visit to Egypt. The French leader is in the country to witness the

Iran

Air France resumes direct Paris-Tehran route after tempestuous build-up

After a tempestuous build-up, the first direct Air France Paris-Tehran flight in eight years has safely landed in the Iranian capital. Air France has

Iran

Direct flights resume between Paris and Tehran

Connection has been suspended since 2008

Lebanon

Hollande wraps up Lebanon trip with visit to Syrians due to be resettled in France

The second and final day of the French president’s visit to Lebanon took him to the Bekaa Valley camp for Syrians, in the east of the country

Lebanon

French President kicks off middle east tour in Lebanon

Francois Hollande begins his four-day regional visit by talking arms and refugees in Beirut

France

"Up all Night" protest once more ends in violence in Paris

Police use tear gas, more than 20 people arrested

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Locked up in hell - inside Europe's prisons

Inside Europe's crumbling and overcrowded prisons: where suicide is for some the only way out.