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Erdogan visits France hoping to rekindle relationship with Europe

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Talks at Elysée set to cover Syria and EU-Turkey relations, but host Macron is also likely to voice concern over Erdogan’s post-coup purges.

France's 'smelliest cheese' under threat from wild boars

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Farmers have sounded the alarm over boars, saying their foraging is ruining pastures for cows that produce the milk used for Munster cheese.

Turkish president's Paris visit slammed as 'insult to Kurds'

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan's trip comes the day before a commemoration of the murder of three Kurdish activists in Paris five years ago.

Frenchwoman on US terror blacklist detained in Syria

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The 33-year-old daughter of a gendarme is 'being held in a Kurdish camp and has been 'interrogated and tortured' says her mother.

Macron wants new law to fight 'fake news'

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French president has criticised Russian media in particular, openly accusing TV channel RT of sowing disinformation about him.

Storm cuts power to 225,000 households in France, one dead

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Storm Eleanor, with winds of more than 75 mph, also led to the suspension of ferry lines between the island of Corsica and mainland France.

'Cowardly lynching' of police officers in France on New Year's Eve

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Attack took place in Champigny-sur-Marne, south-east of central Paris, as officers tried to clear a crowd from a New Year's Eve party.

Macron asks Iran to show restraint as minister's visit postponed

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French president has expressed his concern to Iranian president Hassan Rouhani over number of casualties in six days of protests.

French car registrations rise as diesel's market share falls

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The number of new cars registered in 2017 rose nearly five percent to 2,110,751, according to the industry body, the CCFA.

One dead and power lines are down as storm hits France

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Some 40 of France's 101 departments were on storm warning with Storm Carmen hitting the Atlantic coast Monday morning.