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Former French foreign minister denies Rwanda charge of helping genocide

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Bernard Kouchner said errors were made, but dismissed Rwandan accusations that France directly helped in the1994 genocide in the country.

Vivendi's SFR sold to Numericable

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After a month-long fierce bidding war against Bouygues, Numericable buys Vivendi's telecoms subsidiary SFR for 13.5 billion euros.

France pulls out of Rwanda genocide commemorations

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French officials will not attend events marking the 20th anniversary of the genocide after Rwanda's president said France helped in the killings.

French far-right mayors reinstate pork in school canteens

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The Front National party, which since last weekend controls 12 French town halls, says no 'religious requirements' on menus will be tolerated.

First meeting for new French cabinet

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France's new government has held its first cabinet meeting Friday, which also reunited President François Hollande with his former partner.

How the Hebrew word 'me’anyen' was born from a French corruption scandal

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The Hebrew for 'interesting' was invented for an 1893 newspaper report on a graft scandal during the building of the Panama Canal.   

France on Ebola alert

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Medical services in France are put 'on alert' over the deadly disease that is sweeping Guinea, a former French West African colony.

France to seek EU review of deficit deadlines

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French finance minister Michel Sapin said there was a 'thin line' between budgetary rigour and an economically choking excess of austerity.

Paris' Grand Palais showcases Robert Mapplethorpe

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Once dismissed as a shallow sensation-seeker, the late US photographer's works are fêted in a show at the Grand Palais exhibition center.

'Spaniards at peak of French power'

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The ascensions of French PM Manuel Valls and newly elected Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, both Spanish-born, are celebrated in the Spanish media.