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Hollande rules out visa concessions to Turkey over migrants deal

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Ahead of next week's EU-Turkey summit, the French president said visa rules and respect of human rights would not be traded for migrant control.

French girls, 15 and 17, arrested for concert hall terror attack 'plot'

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Paris prosecutor's office confirmed the arrests but gave no details of where the teenagers live, their identities, or where they were arrested.

Paris November attacks terrorists feature on leaked IS jihadist files

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The Islamic State group files of militants, obtained by German, UK and Syrian opposition media, reportedly identify thousands of jihadist recruits.

French mother 'flabbergasted' to discover missing son on list of jihadists

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The woman, from eastern France, was told her son was listed as a suicide bomber on a file reportedly detailing Islamic State group jihadists in Syria.

French government fails to convince students protesting labour reforms

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President François Hollande, already deeply unpopular, faces growing anger from left-wing youth organisations that would usually back him.

France urges EU travel bans, asset freezes to break Libya logjam

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French FM slammed Libyan politicians blocking formation of a government of national untity needed for planned Western intervention against IS.  

France boosts army reservist numbers to help in home security

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France launches recruitment drive for 12,000 extra reservists to help with security operations around the country following 2015 terrorist attacks.

Jump in French industrial output and job creations

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Manufacturing output surged to 2.6 percent year-on-year to January, while the 82,300 jobs created last year was highest since the crisis of 2007.

Mystery unfolds over 1870 Paris siege letter discovered in Australia

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The son-to-mother letter, sent to Normandy by balloon from a Paris beseiged by Prussians, was inexplicably found in Australia's National Archives.

French Football Federation offices raided in Blatter-Platini probe

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French police searched the FFF's Paris HQ on behalf of a Swiss investigation into ex-FIFA head's payment of 2m Swiss francs to UEFA chief.