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French unemployment figure rises slightly in January

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Official figures for January show a 0.3% month-on-month rise in number of jobless, bringing the total of registered unemployed to 3.316 million.

Hollande phones Moroccan king to cool diplomatic spat

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The row centres on a French police bid to quizz Moroccan spy chief, and a French diplomat's alleged comments on rights abuses by Morocco.

French MPs approve extending military mission in CAR

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French parliament votes in favour of lengthening peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, as inter-religious violence worsens.

France 'not seeking new EU deficit target'

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French finance minister insists Paris is maintaining current deficit-reduction targets, while EC predicts it will miss them both this year and next.

Hollande rules animals should remain 'objects'

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The French president has dismissed a call by a group of French thinkers, writers, historians and scientists that animals be given 'sentient' status.

Michelin Guide gives rare three stars to 'Champagne chef'

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The 2014 Michelin Guide has pronounced Arnaud Lallement the latest among just 27 chefs in France to be handed the coveted culinary award.

Zinedine Zidane's son chooses to play for France instead of Spain

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Real Madrid recruit Enzo Fernández, whose dual nationality makes him eligible to play for either country, is named in a France youth squad.

French organic winemaker in court for shunning pesticides

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Emmanuel Giboulot is backed by enviromentalists but other winemakers say not tackling harmful vine pest is like 'refusing vaccination'.

French women’s liberation movement founder dies

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Antoinette Fouque and two others founded the Women’s Liberation Movement after what they saw as male dominance of 1968 protest movement.

Two children killed as huge rock crashes into family ski chalet

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Parents manage to climb out of crushed chalet but boys aged seven and 10 are killed in France's Isola 2000 Alpine resort.