CNN
(CNN) — The pumping sound system is getting louder, indicating I am getting closer to my destination. The Tour makes its way through the countryside on Tuesday. When I eventually arrive I see a person in a fluffy white monster …
Christian Science Monitor
Voice of America
AFP
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San Jose Mercury News, USA
I believe in the benefits of the arts, and I want to bring the French love of the arts to Silicon Valley. That's what we do with San Jose Jazz, and what they're doing with Left Coast Live (the May event involving some 100 acts in dozens of clubs, …
Berkeley Daily Planet
Xinhua
PARIS, June 8 (Xinhua) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday expressed his condolences over the death of Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba.
France 24
BBC News
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AFP
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's cornered Tamil Tiger fighters appealed to Britain and France on Sunday to broker a truce to halt a government military offensive that threatens to wipe out the rebels.
Al Jazeera
guardian.co.uk
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The Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The visiting French and British foreign ministers urged Sri Lanka's government to enter an immediate cease-fire Wednesday in its war with Tamil rebels, saying the need to protect civilians in the war zone is paramount.
Xinhua
Monsters and Critics.com
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Times Online
A makeshift camp in Calais known as The Jungle, which is home to hundreds of migrants trying to reach Britain, is to be cleared out by French police.
Voice of America
Telegraph.co.uk
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guardian.co.uk
A French military operation to free a yacht hijacked by Somali pirates backfired today when one of the hostages was killed, highlighting the perils facing US forces trying to free an American seaman being held captive in a parallel pirate standoff.
The Associated Press
Aljazeera.net
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BBC News
French politicians have rejected a bill which proposed that people caught downloading music illegally three times should be cut off from the internet.
Times Online
euronews
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AFP
NAIROBI (AFP) - Somali pirates have hijacked a French-flagged yacht with four crew members in the Indian Ocean, Ecoterra International, an organisation monitoring piracy in the region, said Monday.
RT
Times of India
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Reuters
By James Mackenzie PARIS (Reuters) - France's interior minister defended on Sunday the police handling of violent anti-NATO protests in Strasbourg in which shops were ransacked and buildings including a seven-storey hotel were set ablaze.
RT
Washington Post
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