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Sarkozy hospital visit criticised
A HEALTH union has criticised what they see as over-the-top arrangements for a planned presidential visit to a hospital in a Paris suburb.
Sud-santé says the numerous security checks being planned a…
0 Read MoreSégo site is for sore eyes
DAYS after critics lambasted the ‘cheap’ new look on Ségolène Royal’s website its appearance has changed again.
Replacing the ‘sunrise over the prairie’ landscape and silver font is a purple ‘potat…
0 Read MoreSwine flu declared an 'epidemic'
THE number of cases of swine flu has doubled over the last week ? to 103,000 cases ? and health minister Roselyne Bachelot says the epidemic has arrived.
Health watchdog InVS said the week of Septe…
0 Read MoreTalk on French and English humour
Author Jean-Loup Chiflet explains how to be funny in both languages at a book event in Paris on September 22
0 Read MoreEx-PM on trial in Clearstream affair
FORMER Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin is appearing at the Paris Criminal Court in connection with the Clearstream affair.
He is suspected of involvement in a leak in 2004 of what turned out to…
0 Read MoreStrangers to get ?280,000 legacy
A WOMAN has left all her ?280,000 fortune to about 200 people she met by chance through life.
Jeannine Vromant, from Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, died in 2008 at the age of 86 and, having no family and h…
0 Read MoreElectricity opened up to competition
HOMES and businesses across France will have a broader choice of who supplies their electricity from the middle of next year.
France has agreed to fully open up the electricity market to competition …
0 Read MorePS election fraud must be probed
FORMER Socialist Party leadership candidate Ségolène Royal is demanding the party investigate allegations of fraud in the election she lost ? or sue the authors of a book making the claims.
The pr…
0 Read MoreLoophole could save Scientology
A NEW law has been ?discovered? that means that whatever the outcome of France?s Scientology trial, the French branch of the group cannot be dissolved.
French Scientology ? considered to be a cul…
0 Read MoreHortefeux faces race slur charges
INTERIOR minister Brice Hortefeux faces charges by an anti-racist group alleging racist defamation after his comments to an Arab youth in a video clip.
The executive committee of the anti-racist grou…
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