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PARIS An uncle of Syrian President Bashar Assad was sentenced to four years in prison in France on Wednesday for illegally using Syrian state funds to build a…
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PARIS The French praised the altruism of their prized textile and luxury goods companies when production facilities got diverted from churning out the latest…
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PARIS Workers at Notre Dame on Monday began dismantling scaffolding that melted onto itself during a massive fire in April last year which almost consumed the…
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PARIS Workers suspended from ropes will be lowered into the charred remains of scaffolding that melted atop Notre Dame when the cathedral went up in flames and…
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COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France At daybreak on Saturday, Charles Shay stood lonesome without any fellow veteran on the very same beach where he waded ashore 76…
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LE PECQ, France Hold that smile, Mona Lisa. The Eiffel Tower and the Palace of Versailles will remain off-limits for the immediate future, too. None of…
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PARIS French actor Michel Piccoli, a prolific screen star who appeared in landmark films by directors such as Luis Bunuel - including in his Academy Award…
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PARIS Labor unions’ outsized power and plentiful funds are driving the strikes crippling France to protest the government’s planned revamping of the retirement…
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PARIS: Notre Dame Cathedral is unable to host Christmas services for the first time since the French Revolution, because the Paris landmark was too deeply…
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