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CLEAN : FPTV BEST OF 2020: Wuhan evacuees seek semblance of normality in French quarantine
AFPTV refiles some of its most notable stories of 2020. Wuhan returnees try to resume a semblance of normal life and fight against depression after more than a week of confinement near Marseille (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Digitising for vinyl reissue at france's audiovisual archives (INA)
Digitising for vinyl reissue at france's audiovisual archives (INA) (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Protest in Paris against ban on wild animals in travelling circuses
Around thirty representatives of the circus and entertainment world demonstrate near France's Environment Ministry in Paris against the ban on using wild animals for entertainment (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : French doctor warns of "race against time" for vaccines rollout
It's a race against time," warns Paris-based doctor Jimmy Mohamed, a GP and leading critic of the French government's widely criticised efforts to vaccinate the population, deemed as too slow compared to other nations (Footage by AFPTV...
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CLEAN : Large-print bookstore opens in Paris
A new bookstore has opened in Paris dedicated to large-print texts to cater to visually impaired clients (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Tired Lariboisière hospital staff in Paris prepare for a "marathon" this winter
After the spring "sprint", intensive care health professionals at Lariboisière hospital in Paris are preparing for "a marathon" to take care of all their patients over the winter, both those suffering from Covid as well as other...
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CLEAN : A new exhibition in Saint-Etienne details its history of firearm production
Saint-Etienne has a long tradition of arms manufacture, dating back to the Middle Ages (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : "The worst answer would be to close" the churches: Abbot Grosjean
For Abbot Grosjean, parish priest and responsible for political questions for the diocese of Versailles, "the worst answer would be to close places of worship" after a knife-wielding man killed three people at a church in southern France...
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CLEAN : Noumea residents after New Caledonia rejects independence from France
Relief for some, and the feeling that "the time has not yet come" for others: Residents of the Caledonian capital react the morning after a tightly-fought referendum, which saw the French Pacific outpost narrowly reject independence once...
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CLEAN : Pope's ex-envoy, Archbishop Luigi Ventura, to stand trial for sex assault in France
The former Vatican ambassador to France, Archbishop Luigi Ventura, goes on trial in Paris tomorrow on suspicion of sexual assault on five men in 2018 and 2019 in the exercise of his diplomatic duties, which he denies (Footage by AFPTV...
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CLEAN : Covid crisis takes toll on French city of Cannes
Large hotels closed or almost empty, hostesses idle, congresses and trade fairs at half mast: the southern French city of Cannes is coping with a dramatic drop in tourism and event activities due to the Covid-19 health crisis (Footage by...
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CLEAN : Final touches before Majestic cinema reopening at Bastille
Mathieu Guetta, director of the Majestic Bastille in Paris, prepares the finishing touches at his cinema before it reopens on 19 May after 20 weeks of closure (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Reaction after French court dismisses case over Agent Orange use in Vietnam War
An elderly French-Vietnamese woman has reacted after failing in her bid to sue Monsanto and other makers of the toxic chemical Agent Orange over its use by the US as a weapon during the Vietnam War (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Bereaved husband asks Macron for 'French Covid victims tribute day'
After losing his wife to Covid-19, without having been able to see her in hospital "neither alive nor dead", Lionel Petitpas is campaigning hard for the organisation of a national day of tribute to all the victims of the pandemic...
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CLEAN : Montluçon's new health centre is set to close due to lack of staff, plunging region further into a medical desert
Montluçon's health centre has only just opened but is already set to close due to a shortage of doctors, depriving thousands of patients of medical care in a region that is already under-resourced (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Richest 1%'s emissions twice that of poorest 50%: Oxfam report
The world's richest 1% emitted twice as much greenhouse gas as the poorest half of the population, according to a report by Oxfam and the Stockholm Environment Institute, which studied the period 1990-2015, during which annual C02...
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CLEAN : French bars, restaurants call for protest over Covid restrictions
In Rennes, nearly 70 professionals from a French collective bringing together owners of bars, discos and restaurants call for protest against what they perceive as the 'stigmatization' of their profession (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Reax from Lille as Covid-19 spike puts French city on maximum alert
Lille residents react after the northern French city is put in the 'maximum alert zone' because of the deterioration of indicators linked to the Covid-19 epidemic, synonymous with new health restrictions to curb the virus (Footage by...
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CLEAN : France's most tattooed man is... a schoolteacher
He is said to be the most tattooed man in France. Sylvain, aka Freaky Hoody, is a schoolteacher in Essonne (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Rennes' opera theatre is latest to be 'occupied' by protesters demanding reopening
Protesters from the culture sector "occupy" the Rennes opera house and intend to stay there until they are heard by the government (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Vaccinations are going at full speed at the Saint-Quentin velodrome outside Paris
It will host the track cycling events of the Olympic Games in 2024, but for the time being, the Saint-Quentin en Yvelines Velodrome is home to a giant vaccination centre, while the French team's cyclists accelerate at a steady pace...
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CLEAN : Makeover for Marie-Antoinette's 18th century 'miracle theatre' in Versailles
Considered a "miracle of conservation", the 'Queen's Theatre' in Versailles is a rare survivor from the period when France boasted "theatres that could be found everywhere in the 18th century (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : New lockdown: Parisians react after the announcements of Jean Castex
Pessimistic", "weary" and "tired", Parisians react to the reconfinement for nearly a third of the French announced by Prime Minister Jean Castex (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Super League project divides Parisian football fans
Football fans are divided over the creation of the Super League by Europe's top football clubs, a private competition founded by 12 major breakaway clubs to compete with the Champions League (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)