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By David at 10/18/2009 - 05:05
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By David at 08/30/2010 - 20:04
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The wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has condemned the stoning sentence against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, which Iran temporarily suspended but did not throw out after an international outcry. 
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By David at 08/19/2010 - 05:37
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The French government has said it will on Thursday begin expelling to Romania and Bulgaria around 700 Roma rounded up in a clampdown on members of the minority living illegally in France.
The tribunal in southern Bordeaux also threw out a request by some 140 Roma families for authorization to station their caravans in the area.
Seventy-nine Romanian Roma who agreed to a so-called "voluntary return procedure" will arrive in Bucharest on Thursday on a regular flight.
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By David at 07/19/2010 - 04:59
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By David at 07/06/2010 - 18:59
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Stage 2
Rainy weather caused many crashes, including several favorites:
Lance Armstrong
Alberto Contador
Andy and Frank Schleck
Christian Vande Velde - out of race
According to Armstrong, "There was something on the road. We could not stay on our bikes. I've never seen anything like that. As I got up and got going again it was a bit surreal. You got to the bottom [of the hill] to take stock of the situation and you didn't know what to do."
Stage 3
Cobblestones knocked a few more down -- literally and timewise.
Frank Schleck is now out of the race following another fall.
Armstrong has slipped to 18th place.
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By David at 06/30/2010 - 16:31
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Tour de France 2010
Running from Saturday July 3rd to Sunday July 25th 2010, the 97th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,642 kilometres.
The 2010 Tour will be launched from the south side of Rotterdam (Netherlands), for a prologue time-trial. The launching pad will actually be set up in Zuidplein, from where the riders will move north.
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By David at 06/29/2010 - 16:38
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Tour de France, July 3 - July 25, 2010
On the off-chance you're not familiar with it:
The Tour de France is a bicycle race known around the world. It typically has 21 days, or stages, of racing and covers not more than 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi). The shortest Tour was in 1904 at 2,420 kilometres (1,500 mi), the longest in 1926 at 5,745 kilometres (3,570 mi).The three weeks usually include two rest days, sometimes used to transport riders from a finish in one town to the start in another. The race alternates between clockwise and counterclockwise circuits of France.
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By David at 06/24/2010 - 14:52
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What Age for Retirement?
Workers around France went on strike June 24th to protest President Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age to 62.
France does have one of Europe's lowest retirement ages, allowing workers to retire at 60 in most sectors. The government says the reform to the money-losing pension system is essential given France's burgeoning deficit and aging population.
Union officials, however, say the French government's main concern should be boosting employment in a country where large numbers of young people and seniors can't get jobs. This would raise revenue. Furthermore, money for the pension system could come from higher taxes or charges on those who are still working, while cost-cutting in the pension system is an attack on a hard-fought way of life.
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By David at 06/22/2010 - 19:00
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French Football Team goes down
So France lost (2-1) in football to South Africa today, pushing it out of the World Cup. Very sad, but not too surprising considering that they were playing down due to a red card in the 25th minute all that has been going on with the team.
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By David at 06/07/2010 - 04:47
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Art theft
And what about that art heist from the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris a few weeks ago? Did you perhaps miss that one? Not surprising if you did. It was in the news for a day or two following the May 20th theft, and then gone. But that is not because the pieces have been recovered.
The five paintings were by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Braque, and Fernand Leger., valued at $100-600 million depending on who you talk to.
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By David at 06/07/2010 - 03:12
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WORLD CUP -- FOOTBALL!
Will you be cheering for (or praying for) France’s team in the World Cup? Here is the schedule as known so far: June 11 - Uruguay; June 17 - Mexico; June 22 - South Africa
France is not considered a favorite. But the funny thing about sports is – you never quite know.
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By David at 06/07/2010 - 03:02
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Is it time to give up?
228 people died aboard an Air France crash just over a year ago, June 1, 2009. Black boxes from the airplane were never recovered. An association representing families of some of those who died are continuing to urge the French government to search for remaining plane wreckage, even though the most recent searches -- ending just last week – were completely unsuccessful.
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By David at 06/04/2010 - 04:47
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Taïg Khris Eiffel Tower Jump
Thousands of fans gathered in Paris to watch champion roller skater Taig Khris attempt a world record - the highest roller skate jump in history.From the first floor of the Eiffel Tower, the showman , the showman whipped the crowds into a frenzy before he took the plunge. Leaping off the tower, Khris jumped ten metres onto a thirty metre ramp - (pause) - before a failed landing on his first attempt. Undaunted he immediately returned to the jump site to try again. His second jump was flawless, setting a new world record.
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By David at 06/04/2010 - 04:24
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McDonald French Gay Ad
According to Yahoo Buzz, a new commercial for McDonald’s in France is generating a tremendous amount of Buzz online. In the spot, a teenage boy sits in a McDonald's booth, looking at his class picture, when his phone rings. "I was just thinking about you," he says, with obvious affection. "I miss you, too" he replies, and then says that he has to go. His dad is coming to the booth with their food. Father sits across from son and comments that he was "quite the ladies' man" when he was his son's age. Dad then looks at the class picture and remarks that "it's too bad" that his son's class is all boys. The son can only smile.
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By David at 05/29/2010 - 17:41
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France and Britain on Saturday marked the 70th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation, a pivotal rescue of Allied troops by a ragtag band of boats, but a veteran's death marred the events. Some 50 surviving veterans of the some 338,000 troops plucked to safety from the beaches, from Britain, Belgium, the Czech Republic and France, paid tribute to their fallen comrades at the commemoration in the northern French seaport.
One French veteran of the operation, Andre Carlier, 91, suffered a heart attack while attending the ceremony and later died, the city's mayor said. His death was a reminder of the dwindling number of those remaining who lived through the Dunkirk evacuation, which followed the Allies' devastating defeat by invading German forces.
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By David at 05/26/2010 - 05:58
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The French air accident investigation agency says a $15 million search effort has failed to find the remains of Air France Flight 447, a year after it crashed in the depths of the Atlantic.Alain Guilldou of the BEA investigation agency said Tuesday that the search ended Monday. He said "it did not allow us to locate the wreckage of the airplane." The BEA is not commenting further on the search, or on whether there could be another search effort at a later date.
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By David at 05/17/2010 - 16:41
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Is it possible there has been an exchange of Clotilde Reiss, a 24-year-old French academic who was just freed in Iran for the Iranian assassin Ali Vakili Rad who is held in Paris?
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By David at 05/16/2010 - 19:50
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Previously, Clotilde Reiss made headline . Now after more than 10 months, she returned to France on Sunday and thanked President Nicolas Sarkozy and other officials for insisting on her innocence and pressing for her release.
Above, Clotilde Reiss was in court.
Reiss was convicted of provoking unrest and spying, but her lawyer said the 10-year jail term was commuted to a fine of 3 billion rials ($300,000). He said he paid the fine Saturday.
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By David at 05/12/2010 - 17:07
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 Toni Musuli is only sentenced to three years in prison with 2.5 million euro missing.
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By David at 05/11/2010 - 16:51
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Carla Bruni , Michelle Obama and the Queen of England
I know we shouldn't care what the French first couple does in their sex life. After all, they are married to each other. The story now is nothing particularly scandalous. Just that French President Nicholas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife Carla Bruni may have kept The Queen waiting because they weren’t quite ready to leave the bedroom.
In his upcoming book on the Obama presidency, Jonathan Alter reports that the slight was revealed when Bruni tried talking to Michelle Obama about their sex lives. When she asked if they had ever kept a head of state waiting, "Michelle laughed nervously and said no,” reports Alter. This is perhaps the most important cultural difference between the French and the anglophones. The French talk about sex in a totally free manner, while it is frowned upon to do in the US.
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By David at 04/21/2010 - 16:29
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According to associate press, French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered legislation that would ban women from wearing Islamic veils that hide the face in the street and other public places. Now the face veil ban becomes very real.
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By David at 04/09/2010 - 17:26
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Earthtimes reported that the office of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has gagged his communications adviser after he suggested a former minister had started a rumour regarding the president's private life, the weekly Le Point reported Friday in its online edition. The rumour that Sarkozy and his wife had taken lovers began on a Twitter page in February and ultimately made headlines around the world, embarrassing France's first couple. According to the report, Pierre Charon was called into the office of Sarkozy's top gun at the Elysee Palace, Claude Gueant, and ordered not to speak with journalists any more.
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By David at 04/05/2010 - 18:21
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According to FRANCE 24, rumors of infidelity within the Sarkozy couple, which spread like wildfire in foreign media last month, may have been the result of a conspiracy, the French president’s media advisor has claimed as prosecutors in Paris open a preliminary inquiry. The minister was quoted as saying: “The fact that these rumors have been relayed by the press in the UK, Germany and Switzerland could point to a conspiracy ahead of France’s presidency of the G20 in 2010. We will carry out an inquiry to establish where the rumors come from.”
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By David at 03/26/2010 - 04:00
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The search of AF 447’s flight recorder black box will take place for the third time according to AP. The 30-day operation, to begin next week after search ships sail for the mid-Atlantic on Sunday, will scour an area of seabed only one-tenth that combed in the two previous attempts, Jean-Paul Troadec, chief of the BEA French investigation agency, said at a news conference in northeastern Brazil.
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