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CLEAN : WRAP: French ex-president Sarkozy given second jail term for illegal campaign financing
A French court sentences former president Nicolas Sarkozy to a one-year prison sentence for illegal financing of his 2012 re-election bid, dealing a fresh blow to the right-winger seven months after he received a jail term for corruption...
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CLEAN : 'Atrocious brutality': 1961 Paris massacre of Algerians recalled
French Policemen and gendarmes were "ferociously brutal, they were raging to inflict harm" survivor Rabah Sahili tells AFP as he recalls the bloody events that followed a rally in Paris against a decision to impose a curfew solely on the...
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CLEAN : Despair for French fishermen as Channel tensions rise again
It's a blow for French fishing, it's a blow for Europe," says Frederic Cuvillier, the mayor of Boulogne-sur-Mer, amid a rise in tensions over fishing in the Channel (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Lawyers reactions on Helene Pastor's son-in-law's life sentence
Whether Janowski pleads guilty or not guilty he is sentenced to life imprisonment (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : 'Record breaking' rocket Ariane-5 launches successfully from French Guiana
Tonight, Ariane-5 has demonstrated that it is the most powerful rocket in the world to geostationary transfer orbit," says Stephane Israël, the president of Arianespace (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Former PSG star Raí visits mountain gorillas in Rwanda
Former Paris Saint-Germain star Raimundo Souza Vieira de Oliveira, also known as Raí, visits Volcanoes National Park with his wife and French social media star Boris Becker to see mountain gorillas in their natural habitat (Footage by...
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CLEAN : French far-left candidate Melenchon vows immediate minimun wage increase if elected
French far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélechon vows that if the People's Union (leftist coalition led by Melenchon, ed.) wins, he will pass a decree the same day to increase minimum wage to 1,400 euros net and to "freeze...
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CLEAN : French far-right party holds minute of silence for murder of child
A minute's silence is never a political highjack," French far-right leader Marine Le Pen says after the French far-right National Rally MPs hold the silence in front of the National Assembly "in tribute to Lola," a 12-year-old schoolgirl...
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CLEAN : "Immense grief" at funeral of murdered schoolgirl Lola
Hundreds of people pay tribute to Lola, in front of the collegiate church of Saint-Omer, in northern France, at the funeral of the murdered 12-year-old schoolgirl (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Rape used in Ukraine as a Russian 'military strategy': UN envoy
Cases of rape and sexual assault attributed to Russian forces in Ukraine are "clearly a military strategy" and "a deliberate tactic to dehumanise the victims", says Pramila Patten, United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence...
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CLEAN : 'No one is going to intimidate us': French MPs hold rally to denounce 'racism, xenophobia'
A rally in support of France Unbowed MP Carlos Martens Bilongo was held near the National Assembly Friday, denouncing a remark deemed racist, made while he was speaking in parliament on Thursday (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : France's conservatives elect new leader to revive sagging fortunes
France's once-mighty right-wing Republicans party elects a new leader, with members picking arch-conservative Eric Ciotti in the hope he can revive their dim electoral prospects (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Qatargate: 'Eva Kaili is innocent' says Greek MEP's lawyer
Eva Kaili, the Greek MEP at the centre of an inquiry into an alleged attempt by Qatar to corrupt the European Parliament, is "innocent" and "has never been corrupt", her lawyer Michalis Dimitrakopoulos insists (Footage by AFPTV via Getty...