IMF chief Christine Lagarde avoided immediate charges on Friday as prosecutors named her an “assisted witness” in an investigation into a state massive payout to a disgraced tycoon.
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Who should pay for culture? France has long supported hefty state subsidies, like boosting filmmakers’ budgets and paying artists unemployment benefits. Now in the digital age, France is adjusting its approach.
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A third suspected case of coronavirus has been reported in France. A nurse who had been in contact with the first confirmed patient may have contracted the potentially fatal condition alongside a doctor and a patient in a hospital in northern France.
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A music video by French band Indochine, which features the staged crucifixion and shooting of a bullied schoolboy, has caused outrage in France. The country’s TV and radio regulator said on Thursday the “extremely violent” video should be censored.
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The French government is set to consider American-style “class action” lawsuits at a cabinet meeting on Thursday. The reform is designed to give consumers “effective weapons against fraudulent companies,” and would be a first for France.
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China’s President Xi Jinping and France’s President Francois Hollande pledged to push for a world free of domination by any superpower Thursday as the French leader visited the Chinese capital on a mission to boost trade amid his country’s worsening economic woes.
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“The terrorists who wanted to attack France and Libya and undermine the friendship between them will pay” for the attack, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius warned.
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France intends to set up a currency swap line with China to make Paris a major offshore yuan trading hub in Europe, competing against London, the China Daily on Saturday cited Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer as saying.
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France found more cases of illegal horsemeat in beef products than any other EU country, with more than 1 in every 8 samples testing positive. (You would think that somebody had noticed that many horses have gone missing?)
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This is a strange study, because it does not mention once that despite the summer melting of the Antarctic, the ice sheets there are actually expanding.
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