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Alps murder: DNA found at scene 'could be that of killer'

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Breakthrough comes more than seven months after members of a British family were gunned down in an isolated beauty spot close to Lake Annecy.

France jail break: prisoner uses explosives

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Redoine Faid, described as 'particularly dangerous', escaped from prison in northern France after blasting through five doors with explosives.

Zinedine Zidane: Ex-France international helps wife's team

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Star agrees to invest in Fourth Division Rodez Aveyron in south-west France where the family of his wife Veronique Fernandez-Lentisco live.

Over U.S. objections, Hopi tribal masks sold in France

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French court rejected arguments by Hopi tribe that items should not be sold because they are “sacred figures” of their ancestors, not art.

Paris councillor wants street named after Margaret Thatcher

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But a Communist councillor hopes to stop him and honour Irish nationalist hunger striker Bobby Sands instead of the late British prime minister.

French Senate backs same-sex marriage bill

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The bill, which has sparked protests across the country, still faces a second reading in the National Assembly and a final reading in the upper house.

Ministers' wealth list to expose France's 'caviar left'

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List of ministers' assets could set off a storm on Monday, revealing handful of millionaires in Socialist government as nation endures spending cuts.

French far-left leader mocks assets declaration

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon puts his weight, height and shoe size in his declaration of assets after President Hollande's call to clean up French politics.

France's top rabbi Gilles Bernheim quits in plagiarism row

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The rabbi, accused of plagiarising other authors for his book, Forty Jewish Meditations, " apologised" and resigned with immediate effect. 

French mother acquitted in son's 'Jihad' T-shirt trial

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Court in Avignon clears mother who sent her 3-year-old son to school in a tee-shirt reading "I am a bomb" and "Jihad, Born on September 11".