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CLEAN : French voters who feel unrepresented 'give up' in run-off vote: political scientist
"We have to get used to the fact (...) that some of the voters who no longer have representatives in the second round will give up and decide not to go vote," warns a political scientist, reflecting on the high abstention rates in the...
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CLEAN : France unveils plan to boost tourism
CLEAN : France unveils plan to boost tourism
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CLEAN : Over 700 racers ready for 9000 km Dakar 20
CLEAN : Over 700 racers ready for 9000 km Dakar 20
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Sahara, Algeria, 1954 - Colom Bechar, camels, and vehicles driving through roads and water
Clip 2 from the 1954 film 'Les Deux Visages Du Sahara', a short propaganda film exploring the French government's contribution to Algeria during colonization. In this clip, scenes of Colom Bechar and its people. Men on camels, and...
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CLEAN : French corruption agency head for ban on offshore transactions
If you have nothing to hide you don't need an offshore company
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Le Pont Neuf in Paris. France, 1957
Clip 6 from the French documentary 'Autour de Notre Dame', (Around Notre Dame) from 1957. Exterior shots of buildings in the city centre of Paris. Old illustrations of Le Pont Neuf, and footage of the bridge from various angles.
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CLEAN : Author Leila Slimani weighs in on Deneuve feminist row
France's most revered actress Catherine Deneuve was among 100 prominent women to sign a letter in Le Monde this week defending a man's right to bother women complaining that the Me Too campaign against harassment had become puritanical
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CLEAN : Candidate calls for Marshall Plan for restive French island
On the protest gripped French island of Mayotte the legislative by election candidate for the centre right Les Republicains party says a real Marshal Plan' is needed to improve public services
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CLEAN : Tourists in Martinique rue "ruined holidays" as they return to mainland France
At Aimé Césaire airport in Martinique, tourists are returning to mainland France as a strict lockdown takes effect to stem the surge of Covid-19 cases (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Future chefs battling food waste and cooking for France's most vulnerable
The "Tablée des chefs", under the patronage of the Michelin-starred chef Julia Sedefdjian, raises awareness among future chefs about solidarity and food waste (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Oil supply shortages are 'very localized,' French minister says
Oil supply shortages in France are "very localized" and "affecting only a small number of gas stations," Energy Transition Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher says amid a strike at oil company TotalEnergies (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Lawyer points finger at Buitoni, France after another pizza poisoning
"I was consulted by a mother who was poisoned after eating a Buitoni brand pizza," says Pierre Debuisson, a lawyer for a woman who fell sick after eating a Buitoni brand frozen pizza (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : French comedian campaigns, at a market, ahead of upcoming elections
French comedian Gérald Dahan, nominated by the NUPES (Nouvelle Union Populaire écologique et sociale/New Popular Ecological and Social Union, Eds.) for the legislative elections in the third constituency of Charente-Maritime, wanders...
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CLEAN : France: in the Monts d'Arrée, mowing moorland to prevent fires
A huge farm vehicle runs through gorse, ferns and heather with a deafening noise, leaving behind only a pile of twigs and earth (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : European Heritage Days: to "protect" arts and crafts "to pass them on," says Macron
While visiting the Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie in Aubusson in the Creuse region of France, French President Emmanuel Macron, attended the unveiling of the latest tapestry from the Tolkien series, "Conversation with Smaug" from...
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CLEAN : Survivors of migrant "coffin boat" hope France will relaunch investigation
Stephane Maugendre, a lawyer for two of the nine survivors of a migrant boat that sank off the coast of Libya in 2011 after drifting at sea for 14 days, hopes that the French justice will reopen the investigation into what happened...
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CLEAN : French decree turns firefighters into "emergency care technicians"
Giving paracetamol, treating a hypoglycaemic attack, giving Ventolin to an asthmatic or injecting adrenaline to a victim of a serious allergy: since 24 April, a decree authorises French firefighters to provide certain emergency care,...
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CLEAN : Patients, doctors worry as Paris faces shortage of physicians
"When I stop working, the practice will close, that's obvious": Dr Richard Handschuh, a 68-year-old general practitioner, can't find anyone to take over his practice in eastern Paris, an area considered a medical desert (Footage by AFPTV...
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CLEAN : France 2022 hopeful Taubira throws in towel after sponsorship debacle (2)
Denouncing parties "that have nothing left but their capacity to cause trouble", left-winger Christiane Taubira, who came first in a Socialist-led public poll dubbed the "popular primary", acknowledges the end of her campaign after she...
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CLEAN : French marine experts install environmental buoys to protect "lungs of Mediterranean"
In Saint-Raphaël (Var), before the start of the high season, the harbour authority is installing its latest ecological anchoring system to accommodate pleasure boats (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Voters cast French presidential election ballots in abstention hotbed of Saint-Denis
In Saint-Denis, near Paris, where abstention is traditionally high, some voters arrive as soon as the polling stations opened (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Total continues "success story" in Qatar with massive LNG and solar projects
"This is an investment of 2 billion dollars," says TotalEnergies chief executive Patrick Pouyanne after being named by Qatar as its first foreign partner to expand the world's largest natural gas field and eventually help ease Europe's...