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One of the women found dead with gunshot wounds is said to be a co-founder of the militant Kurdish separatist movement, the PKK.

French ministers in talks with company officials over homophobic, racist and anti-semitic tweets which Paris says contravene laws on hate-speech.

President Hollande will not intervene over two ailing zoo elephants whose death sentence led Brigitte Bardot to threaten to go into exile in Russia.

The ringleader of the operation funding the militants, who have ties to al-Qaeda, was sentenced to eight years while others received up to three years.

Major French ISP Free has agreed to abandon its ad-blocking policy - seen as a swipe against Google - after a government minister intervened.

Fifty Muslim activists have issued an open letter urging fellow Muslims to join a major Paris protest against the law at the weekend.

The actor, who now has a Russian passport, says if he simply wanted to avoid tax rises he would have gone earlier and insists he remains French.

French carrier says one-way "MiNi" tickets will start at 49 euros including tax for the 40 percent of people who travel without checked baggage.

Energy minister Delphine Batho announces plans to double production capacity target and offer more financial support to small photovoltaic farms.

Company boss faces manslaughter probe as victims complain of compensation delays over product that may have killed more than 500 people.