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  France arrests Italian over 160 child rapes, assaults

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 04:41pm on October 23, 2020

  An Italian was arrested in France on a warrant issued by Germany, who is wanted on 160 counts of rape or sexual assault of his...

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  France closes Paris mosque

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 10:34pm on October 20, 2020

  French authorities said Tuesday they would close a Paris mosque in a clampdown on radical Islam that has yielded over a dozen arrests following the...

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  Bruno Martini, 'one of France's greatest', dies

  Agence France-Presse . Montpellier | Updated at 08:09pm on October 20, 2020

  Bruno Martini, who became ‘one of France's greatest goalkeepers’ only after a failed exam blocked the path to his chosen career as a sports instructor,...

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  Russians charged with cyber attacks on Ukraine, French elections

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 10:24am on October 20, 2020

  Six Russian military intelligence officers have been charged in the United States with carrying out cyberattacks on Ukraine’s power grid, the 2017 French elections and...

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  French police target Islamist networks after teacher’s beheading

  Agence France-Presse . Paris, France | Updated at 10:20am on October 20, 2020

  French police have conducted a series of raids targeting Islamist networks, three days after the beheading of a history teacher who had shown his pupils...

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  France to rally in solidarity, defiance after teacher beheading

  Agence France-Presse . Conflans-Sainte-Honorine , France | Updated at 10:36am on October 18, 2020

  Rallies in dozens of cities across France were expected on Sunday in a show of solidarity and defiance following the decapitation of a teacher outside...

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  French teacher beheaded, suspect shot dead

  Agence France-Presse . Conflans-Sainte-Honorine | Updated at 10:22am on October 17, 2020

  The man suspected of beheading a French teacher who showed his students cartoons of the prophet Mohammed was an 18-year-old Chechen, a source said Saturday,...

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  France shine, Germany moan and Ronaldo rattles Spain in Europe

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 03:43pm on October 08, 2020

  France's 7-1 thrashing of Ukraine was the pick of the European friendlies on Wednesday as Spain clung on for a draw in Lisbon and Turkey...

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  US-French duo win Nobel chemistry prize for gene editing tool

  Agence France-Presse . Stockholm | Updated at 04:50pm on October 07, 2020

  Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the United States on Wednesday won the Nobel chemistry p rize for developing the gene-editing technique known...

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  French villages dig out from flood

  Agence France-Presse . Roquebillière, France | Updated at 09:54pm on October 05, 2020

  Rescue workers evacuated hundreds of people Monday from villages hammered by flash flooding in southeast France over the weekend, with the death toll expected to...