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French vinyard worker wins pesticide illness case

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The woman has won a lengthy legal battle for recognition that she developed debilitating illnesses after tending to vine spraid with pesticide.

French PM backs down to socialist rebels over low-income pensioners

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Manuel Valls will save low-income pensioners from one-year freeze of benefits and pensions in his 50 billion-euro deficit reduction drive.

French president to travel to Georgia 'within days' as Ukraine crisis deepens

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François Hollande will visit Russia's southern neighbour as it mulls signing same EU pact that was rejected by Ukraine's former president.

City of York to honour brave French WWII pilot

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Free French Forces fighter pilot Yves Mahé single-handedly cut short a massive Luftwaffe bombing raid over the city in April 1942.

French environment minister dismisses ‘ridiculous rumour’ of cleavage ban

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Press reports claim Ségolène Royal, the French president’s former partner, told female ministry staff to adopt sober dress.

Paris air pollution 'smogging' London

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The Environmental Research Group at King’s College London claims the French capital's chronic pollution is affecting south-east England.

French deficit-reduction plan bets on growth

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The French government unveiled a slacker plan to reduce the public deficit, with no margin for error should growth fail to meet projections.

French hostage in Mali is dead, claim Islamist captors

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No details of why or when Gilberto Rodrigues Leal, 62, died were given by the al-Qaeda affiliated group who kidnapped him in 2012.

French PM's deficit-reduction plan meets with outcry within Socialist Party

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Plans that include freezing all state pensions and welfare benefits for a year may be tweaked to ward off revolt by some of his party's MPs.

France to clamp down on would-be Syria jihadis

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Foreign minister says 'about 500' French citizens are fighting in Syria with jihadi groups like that which kidnapped recently-released hostages.