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Macron pours cold water on Balkan EU membership hopes

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Macron’s comments will be disappointment to Albania and Macedonia, who are hoping for green light next month to begin talks to join the bloc.

Macron to hold 'tough talks' with Facebook's Zuckerberg

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French president to discuss tax and data privacy with Facebook boss when he hosts bosses of tech firms in Paris in bid to lure more investment.

French oil firm Total seeks exemption from US sanctions over Iran

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The company said  it will end work on major South Pars 11 gas field  project it began in July 2017 unless it is exempted.

Trio to run strike-hit Air France-KLM after pay row

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Temporary move comes after abrupt exit of chief executive Jean-Marc Janaillac after staff rejected pay proposal aimed at ending series of strikes.

Ex-minister Cahuzac gets two years for tax fraud - but escapes jail

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Judges cut Jérôme Cahuzac's sentence from three years to two, and such jail time is usually reduced in France to community service.

Revised French bill on child sex sparks outrage

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Critics say new version of French government's bill not only lessens protection of children, it also opens up a new legal loophole for child rapists.

French emergency operator blames pressure after mocking caller

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Operator who mocked Naomi Musenga, 22, who died soon afterwards, says she was under pressure and that emergency services are overworked.

Mystery of seals killed in northern France

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Since January, three seals have been found dead on the Côte d'Opale, and an animal conservation group is offering reward for information. 

French railway workers strike set to cause major disruption Monday

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French railways operator SNCF has warned that the latest in a series of rolling two-day strikes will cause severe disruption to services on Monday, as unions heighten protest action against planned government reforms to prepare for the introduction of private competition on the railways and an end to job contract protections. 

Paris attacker named as naturalised Chechen

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The knifeman who killed one man and wounded four other people in a rampage in a central Paris street on Saturday evening, and who was subsequently shot dead by police, has been named as Khamzat Azimov, born in Chechnya in 1997 and given French nationality in 2010.