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  • Hotel owner freed after dramatic abduction on French Riviera

    France — Link

    Jacqueline Veyrac was found in a car parked in a district of Nice, bound and with minor injuries, 48 hours after she was kidnapped.

  • Calais 'Jungle' clearance resumes after overnight tent-burning

    France — Link

    A number of migrants 'followed tradition' and set ablaze their tents and their shelters when they left, says local French official.

  • Plunge in French joblessness gives Hollande rare boost

    France — Link

    President, who is yet to decide whether to stand for re-election, hailed figures showing 66,300 fewer people were looking for work last month.

  • Juppé widens lead over Sarkozy ahead of presidential primaries

    France — Link

    Poll puts former PM Alain Juppé on 41 percent of votes in first round of Right's primary on November 20, while Sarkozy slips to 30 percent.

  • French businesswoman kidnapped in Nice

    France — Link

    Police say Jacqueline Veyrac, 76, president of Cannes’s five-star Grand Hotel, was seized from her car near her home by an organised gang.

  • Demolition of Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp set to begin

    France — Link

    Officials say demolition will start by hand and bulldozers will not roll in immediately in an effort to minimize tensions as evacuation continues. 

  • Five dead as French surveillance plane crashes

    France — Link

    Three French defence ministry officials and two pilots, also French, were killed in crash as plane heading for Libya took off from Malta airport.

  • Peace reigns as France clears 'Jungle' migrant camp

    France — Link

    After sporadic unrest overnight, migrants waited with calm resignation to be relocated by bus in France while asylum requests are considered.

  • France presidential hopeful in pastry price gaffe

    France — Link

    Right-winger Jean-Francois Copé was asked if he knew how much a 'pain au chocolat' cost - and massively underestimated it.

  • Calais migrants: France begins to clear 'Jungle' camp

    France — Link

    More than 1,200 police and officials have begun operation to clear the 'Jungle' migrant camp in Calais which has been housing 7,000 people.

  • Race for UK entry of unaccompanied minors as Calais camp is evacuated

    International — Link

    With the expected dismantlement of the 'jungle' migrant camp in Calais to begin as of Monday morning, the French authorities step up attempts with UK counterparts to save children who have right of entry into Britain from being herded with adults into centres around France amid 'chaos' of evacuation. 

  • US couple bequeath 350m-euro art collection to Musée d'Orsay

    International — Link

    Spencer Hays and his wife Marlene, both aged 80, are to leave the Paris museum the inheritance of a collection of some 600 artworks, including by Matisse, Modigliani and Degas, and on Saturday received the Légion d'Honneur in the company of President François Hollande.

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