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Iran upholds five-year jail sentence for French-Iranian academic

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A five-year jail sentence pronounced in May by the Iranian authorities agaisnt Fariba Adelkhah, 61, a research director at the Paris political sciences university Sciences Po who was arrested last year in Tehran for allegedly 'conspiring against national security', was upheld on appeal on Tuesday.

Air France planning 7,500 job cuts, staff unions report

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Air France plans to shed 6,500 jobs from its core airline business and to axe another 1,000 posts at its regional airline Hop! between now and the end of 2022, according to staff union officials who are due to meet with management on Friday to discuss the project.

Jail sentences for France's ex-PM Fillon and wife in 'fake jobs' case

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Former French conservative prime minister François Fillon was on Monday handed a five-year prison sentence, with three years suspended, and his British wife Penelope was given a three-year suspended jail sentence, after a Paris court found the pair guilty of a scam in which Fillon paid his wife more than 800,000 euros as his parliamentary assistant for work she never did. 

France returns to polls for municipal elections

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Opinion polls have suggested a dire outcome for President Emmanuel Macron, whose ruling party could fail to win in any big city. 

France's oldest nuclear reactor to finally shut down

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Environmentalists have welcomed news that the 43-year-old Fessenheim reactor will close, nine years after the shutdown was first planned.

France's Macron set for Covid test in Sunday's local elections

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France held the first round of voting three months ago as coronavirus took hold - a decision President Emmanuel Macron was widely criticised for.

French football to return on July 24 with Coupe de France final

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Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue finals will now take place on July 24 and 31, after matches were postponed in April due to the coronavirus pandemic.

French jihadist goes on trial over IS group executions in Syria

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Tyler Vilus, 30, is facing charges of belonging to a terrorist group, heading a unit of IS group fighters and "aggravated murder" between 2013 and 2015.

French statue vandalised over slavery code

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The statue is of Jean-Baptiste Colbert who helped write the Code Noir or Black Code in the 17th Century which defined slavery and race in France's colonial empire.

France's Covid-19 tracing app fails to engage as 500,000 delete it

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Since its launch, 68 people have informed the platform they had been infected and only 14 users were alerted that they were now at risk because of their contacts with these people, digital affairs minister Cedric O said.