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Cantona dismisses fan attack twenty years on

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French aid worker freed in Central African Republic

A French aid worker abducted last Monday in the Central African Republic has been freed. Claudia Priest, who is 67, worked for a charity providing

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Moroccan-born man convicted on terror charges stripped of French nationality

France’s top court ruled it was possible to strip a Moroccan-born man convicted on terror charges of his French nationality, paving the way for more

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From Paris to Berlin: Taking a look at the catwalks

From Paris to Berlin, established and upcoming designers showcased their work in some of the world's fashion capitals.

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Home is where the heart is: the emigration dilemma facing France's Jewish community

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Lyon: 'Transformation of the Metropolis'

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'Social divisions were there in the past' admits French PM on announcement of new anti-terror tactics

Multi-million euro anti-extremism package announced by France but is it enough to deal with longer term social divisions?

Belgium

EU pushes for quick decision on new anti-terror law

The EU wants a quick decision on a new law that will force governments to share air passenger data. The draft bill, first proposed in 2011, is being

France

Valls pledges extra police and spies in France anti-terror boost

France is to recruit thousands of extra police, spies and investigators to boost national security and intelligence, Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced on Wednesday, two weeks after 17 people were

Central African Republic

African aid group hopes kidnapped French worker will be freed

Caritas, one of the main aid groups in Central African Republic say it’s optimistic a kidnapped French charity worker could be released today. The

France

Paris gunman Amedy Coulibaly 'stopped by police' days before terror attacks

Islamist gunman Amedy Coulibaly was stopped randomly by police in Paris just days before the terror attacks there according to French satirical

France

'I'm no hero' says Bathily as France grants supermarket saviour citizenship

The French Fifth republic has a new citizen, Lassana Bathily, the Malian-born Muslim who saved the lives of several Jewish shoppers during this

France

France honours "hero of Kosher supermarket" with citizenship

France has made a dream come true for one Muslim Malian immigrant by granting him citizenship. Lassana Bathily has been described as the hero of the

France

'Ethnic apartheid' exists in France, says PM Manuel Valls

The French prime minister has said the country’s recent terrorist attacks have exposed a “geographic, social, ethnic apartheid” present in society

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Lassana Bathily's story

Lassana Bathily, age 24, a practising Muslim, is from a small village in northwest Mali. In 2006 he arrived in France, where his father was already

France

Four to face Paris judge over deadly attacks in French capital

Four men are to appear before a judge in Paris suspected of helping one of the militant Islamist gunmen behind the deadly attacks in the capital. The

France

Kings of Cannes: The Coen brothers will co-preside the 2015 film festival

They are no strangers to Cannes. But this year movie-making brothers Joel and Ethan Coen won’t be winning prizes at the film festival. They’ll be

France

Tight security for burial of Cherif Kouachi in Gennevilliers

A cemetery in a Paris suburb is the final resting place of one of the two brothers who launched the deadly attack on the offices of the magazine

Niger

Anti-Charlie Hebdo protests claim more lives in Niger

At least five people have been killed and six churches attacked in Niger in fresh anti-Charlie protests

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Green light for Channel Tunnel after fire on lorry forced closure

Firefighters give all-clear for Channel Tunnel after a lorry fire saw trains cancelled

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