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Two home improvement chains, ordered by court to stop opening stores on Sundays or face a fine of 120,000 euros, defiantly opened for business.

The Swiss army held a training exercise in August simulating an attack by French forces which sought to retrieve money for their bankrupt country.

A 25 year-old man is focus of a documentary on what it's like living with only French-made posessions, and finds his flat stripped almost bare.

A delegation from Jersey visited the French ambassador to London in an attempt to have the island removed from France's tax blacklist.

In a video released by his captors, Francis Collomp, kidnapped last December, asked for French and Nigerian help in securing his release.

Two recent court decisions have reignited a longstanding debate in France about whether shops should be allowed to open on Sundays.

The official defender of citizens' rights accused the government of flouting its own rules for the expulsion of Roma migrants from illegal camps.

The camp in Roubaix, where some 200 people were living, was dismantled days after the interior minister said most Roma should be expelled.

The arrests in Paris were in connection with the theft this month of gold worth about 1.6 million euros from a Zurich-bound Air France flight.

The French President, visiting the troubled ArcelorMittal plant of Florange, said he would return each year to ensure promised investment arrives.