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France 'ready to punish' Syria over gas attack 27 Aug 2013 | 09:23 pm
French President François Hollande vowed on Tuesday that France was "ready to punish" those responsible for the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria, as the UK and US administrations earlier appear...
Missing parents dumped kids to go on holiday 27 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
An extensive search for the missing parents of three abandoned children came to an end Monday night when police finally tracked them down. The couple were found holidaying in Marseille after the fathe...
20 million households in France 'to pay more tax' 27 Aug 2013 | 08:09 pm
Just days after a European finance chief warned France that tax rises had reached a dangerous threshold, a French news site has claimed that as many as 20 million households will be hit in the pocket ...
Pensioner risks jail for helping sick immigrant 27 Aug 2013 | 07:54 pm
A Red Cross volunteer appeared in a French court on Tuesday, charged with fraud after helping a sick and homeless Congolese woman's bid for a visa in France. The pensioner could face up to a year in p...
Court orders France to end ban on Mercedes 27 Aug 2013 | 07:27 pm
France's highest administrative court ordered the French government on Tuesday to lift its controversial ban on new Mercedes models. The ban, which revolved around the use of a certain coolant, has fl...
Every French school to get a 'secular charter' 27 Aug 2013 | 05:27 pm
The French government announced this week, that a “secularism charter” will be placed in every school in the country by the end of September. The plan is only the latest in a series of recent controve...
Kim Jong-il’s grandson to study in France 27 Aug 2013 | 04:52 pm
France's attempts to attract more international students appears to be paying off with news that the grandson of former North-Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, the nephew of current leader Kim Jong-un, is ...
'Marseille is safe, tourists have nothing to fear' 27 Aug 2013 | 03:56 pm
After a string of violent murders in Marseille raised fears of security in the Mediterranean city the head of the city’s tourist board tells The Local that visitors have nothing to fear.
French public to vote on Pantheon burial honour 27 Aug 2013 | 02:12 pm
Who do you think should join Voltaire and Victor Hugo among the ranks of the greatest French men and women? That’s the question authorities are asking the public for the first time, as they try to dec...
Endangered lion cub dies in French zoo 27 Aug 2013 | 01:27 pm
Just days after celebrating the birth of a rare Asiatic lion, a zoo in France announced the sad news on Tuesday that the cub had not survived. The death is a blow to attempts to preserve a rare animal...
