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Rivals snub Sarkozy policy speech

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Conservative presidential election rivals did not attend the opposition party leader's keynote speech at the end of weekend policy meeting.

French PM rejects permanent European quota for refugees

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Manuel Valls said France, which has pledged to take 30,000 of the 160,000 refugees to be absorbed by European countries, 'won't take any more'.

Charities denounce police and militia 'attacks on migrants' in Calais

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UK and French associations report children are among victims who have suffered stabbings, broken bones, severe bruising and head trauma.

Mystery DNA print found on Paris attacks bomb belts

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Investigators have found matching but unidentified DNA samples on two explosive belts abandoned by terrorists after the November attacks.

Paris court rules against Facebook in row over picture of female nude

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Court rules that account user who posted image of Gustave Courbet's Origin of the World can sue Facebook in France for removing it against his will.

French Greens turn on leader who accepted ministerial post

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Emmanuelle Cosse, named this week as housing minister in the socialist-led government, has lost leadership of the EELV party which opposed the move. 

Half of Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp to be razed

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Some 1,000 migrants are to be displaced from a part of the the makeshift and insalubrious camp which the authorities will raze next week.

French government reshuffle sees former PM return as foreign minister

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Jean-Marc Ayrault, President Hollande's first PM, is among nine new government members, including Green party leader Emmanuelle Cosse.

Six schoolchildren die in SW France collision between coach and truck

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A loose panel on a dumper truck sliced into a coach carrying 18 pupils near Rochefort, the second deadly school bus accident in France in 24 hours.

Ex-French budget minister's tax fraud trial postponed

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The trial of Jérôme Cahuzac, who Mediapart exposed for tax evasion and money laundering, is adjourned until September on a legal technicality.