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French unemployed at 25-year low
Unemployment in France has reached a 25-year low - dropping 0.9% in May to 2.2 million, the government said. The decline takes the jobless rate to 8.1%, still giving France one of the worst unemployment records in Europe.
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06|30|07| • News • 1310 comments • no trackback
Versailles' Hall of Mirrors reopens to the public
Magnificent, historic room was closed for extensive 3-year renovation. VERSAILLES, France - The Chateau of Versailles reopened its Hall of Mirrors to the public Monday after more than three years of work to restore the gilded gallery of 357 mirrors, the castle's crown jewel.
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06|27|07| • Art & Culture • 2492 comments • no trackback
Famed WWII cemetery gets visitor center
Normandy American Cemetery seen by nearly 1 million visitors a year. COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France - Photos of fresh-faced privates, wizened U.S. generals and the largest amphibious military operation in history. Dented army canteens that once dotted killing fields in France. The booming sounds of gunships echoing over the waves in Normandy — this time, on video.
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06|26|07| • General • 307 comments • no trackback
French Socialist Party’s power couple to split
France’s closest equivalent to Clintons were politically, romantically tied. PARIS - The rumors were true: The famously dysfunctional couple at the head of France's main opposition Socialist Party is breaking up. Segolene Royal had shown little delicacy in sweeping aside Francois Hollande — Socialist party boss and the father of her four children — to bid for the French presidency herself.
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06|19|07| • News • 4731 comments • no trackback
French wine-growers go guerrilla
A shadowy group in France has issued the French government with an unusual ultimatum: raise the price of wine or blood will flow. The group's name is the Crav, which stands for nothing more threatening than the Union for Viticultural Action in the Languedoc region in the south.
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06|17|07| • Food & Beverage • 155 comments • no trackback