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  • French woman with Down's syndrome presents TV weather news

    France — Link

    Mélanie Ségard, 21, realised what she said was her dream of hosting the forecast on the national public channel France 2 on Tuesday night, which was the result of a social media campaign by a French charity in an effort to promote awareness and inclusion of disabled people.

  • Paris begins replacing iconic 19th-century newsstands

    France — Link

    The new-look press kiosks, created by French industrial designer Matali Crasset using recycled glass and aluminium, provides more head room and improved lighting over the old domed structures, allowing customers to browse inside, and is aimed at helping vendors compete with online competition.

  • Ex-French PM Valls refuses to back his party's presidential candidate

    France — Link

    Former prime minister Manuel Valls has refused to publicly back Benoît Hamon, the French Socialist Party's presidential candidate who beat him in party primary elections earlier this year with a markedly a leftwing programme in contrast to that of Valls.

  • Struggling Fillon hit by 'gifts of luxury clothing' report

    France — Link

    French conservative presidential candidate François Fillon, already engulfed in a scandal over allegations he gave his wife and children 'fake jobs' paid from parliamentary funds, has partially confirmed press reports that a wealthy benefactor had bought him luxury clothing worth more than 48,000 euros.

  • Two leading French rugby clubs announce merger

    France — Link

    Stade Français and Racing 92, winners, respectively, of the Top 14 in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons, said they will merge into one club this autumn, pooling their financial ressources in order to build a single team of 'reference'. 

  • Opposition slams French government over Turkish political rally

    International — Link

    Conservative and far-right presidential candidates sharply criticised the socialist government for allowing Turkey's foreign minister to attend a meeting in France to rally support for proposed changes to his country's constitution which will strengthen the powers of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

  • 'Carlos the Jackal' stands trial over 1974 Paris store attack

    France — Link

    Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, 67, dubbed Carlos the Jackal, already serving a life sentence for murdering two French intelligence officers, appeared in court in Paris on Monday accused of lobbing a hand grenade into a crowded Left Bank shopping centre in September 1974, killing two people and wounding 34 others.

  • Fillon's party apologizes for anti-Semitic attack on rival Macron

    France — Link

    His party had tweeted image of independent candidate with a hooked nose, top hat and carrying a red sickle with which he was cutting a cigar.

  • France's Jean-Luc Mélenchon has backing for presidential run

    France — Link

    The radical left politician said he had gathered the requisite 500 endorsements from Parliamentarians and mayors to stand in contest.

  • Paris region orders French be spoken on construction sites

    France — Link

    Rule concerns public construction sites during working time and targets foreign firms that hire cheaper workers from elsewhere in EU.

  • Goya etchings found in French château are 'once in a lifetime discovery'

    France — Link

    Prints of famous bullfighting series kept in old ledger hidden on library shelf in Château de Montigny could fetch up to £500,000 at auction.

  • Three quarters of French 'against a return to the franc'

    France — Link

    But poll also suggests that a higher number of French feel that the European Union has 'more disadvantages than advantages' than the reverse.

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