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FRANCE
French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici says the government has decided to drop a plan to impose a ceiling on executive pay in the private sector.
China has offered to send more than 500 soldiers to the UN force seeking to contain Islamist militants in Mali, diplomats say.
The EU has approved a mission to help Libya improve its border security in response to concerns that Islamist militants and weapons move freely across the country’s frontier.
France's parliament has kicked off a high-profile public probe into a major tax fraud scandal that has shaken the Socialist government.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been transferred to a new facility in Paris to continue his recovery, France's defence ministry says.
France will buy two medium-altitude Reaper drones from the United States air force to back up its operations against Islamists in Mali, a report says.
France has become the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage after President Francois Hollande signed it into law following months of bitter political debate.
France's first lady Valerie Trierweiler has begun a tour of Mali with a visit to Gao, one of several northern cities liberated by a French-led military operation.
President Francois Hollande's nagging headache to reboot the French economy has turned into a migraine as the economy slipped into its second recession in four years.
France's first lady Valerie Trierweiler has arrived in Mali for a tour of the war-torn nation described as "part of a mission for children and women".
The International Energy Agency says booming oil production in North America brought on by the shale energy revolution has created a global "supply shock".
A French Islamist arrested in northern Mali arrived in Paris and was handed over to the DCRI intelligence agency for questioning, a security source said.
Panic has gripped Saudis in the country's east, where most cases of the deadly coronavirus have been detected, witnesses say.
A fire at an abandoned French factory has killed three people, two women and a child, say authorities in the south-eastern city of Lyon.
Britain is temporarily pulling out some staff from its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli due to security concerns, the Foreign Office says.
