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05:49 EST          7 May 2012 From a former supermodel with a reputation for partying with rock stars to a twice-divorced mother the French vote for president will see more than just economic policies change. Valerie Trierweiler, 47, the partner of Mr Hollande, will become the first unmarried ‘Première Dame’ in history [...]

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Sun May 6, 2012          2:25pm EDT Socialist candidate Francois Hollande won France’s presidential election runoff on Sunday, beating President Nicolas Sarkozy by a clear margin, according to projections by pollsters. Polling institutes predicted Hollande would win between 51.8 and 52.0 percent of the vote versus Sarkozy’s tally of between 48.0 and [...]

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March 22, 2012 A 23-year-old Frenchman who claimed responsibility for killing four men and three children was shot dead on Thursday as security forces stormed the apartment where he had been holed up for more than 30 hours, French officials said. François Molins, the prosecutor in charge of the investigation, said the suspect, identified as Mohammed [...]

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19 March 2012         05:50 ET A gunman has opened fire on a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing three children and an adult, police say. At least two people were also injured in the attack outside the Ozar Hatorah school in the north-east of the city. Police are [...]

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December 15th, 2011 The Italian judges who freed Amanda Knox appear to criticize the “obsessive duration” of her interrogation by Italian police and shrugged off Knox’s affectionate antics with her co-defendant in the police station as nothing more than “tenderness between lovers.” The judges’ comments came in a 143-page detailed explanation of their decision in October to dismiss murder [...]

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October 20th, 2011 Carla-Bruni-Sarkozy has announced the name of her baby, and it’s one that will very likely be a mainstay in the fashion world or Hollywood 20 years from now. In a message on her website, the first lady of France wrote: “I am deeply touched by the many messages of congratulations that I [...]

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21:31 IST(19/6/2010) Striker Nicolas Anelka was kicked out of France’s World Cup squad on Saturday for insulting coach Raymond Domenech “Go f*** yourself you dirty son of  a wh***”                        Nicolas Anelka to coach Domenech and refusing to apologise, the French Football Federation (FFF) said.   Anelka insulted Domenech in a crude manner at halftime of [...]

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