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• France promises jobs to riot-hit suburbs

  - 2008-01-22

  VAULX-EN-VELIN, France AFP — The French government Tuesday unveiled proposals to slash youth unemployment in the high-immigrant suburbs that exploded into rioting in 2005, pledging to create tens of thousands of new jobs. President Nicolas Sarkozy, who promised powerful measures in favour of the low-income "banlieues" during his election...

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• French farmer–activist Bove plans presidential bid

  - 2007-01-21

  MONTREUIL, France AFP — France's iconic farmer-activist Jose Bove has burst into the campaign for April's presidential election with the announcement that he plans to stand as a candidate for the anti-liberal far left. "I will officially announce my candidacy on February 1," the 53-year-old anti-globalisation campaigner and champion of...

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• French socialists hold primary to choose presidential candidate

  - 2006-11-16

  PARIS AFP — Members of France's Socialist Party voted to choose their candidate for presidential elections due next April, with the favourite Segolene Royal wanting a clear-cut victory over her two rivals. A total 218,711 card-carrying activists in the party were being called on to cast ballots in 4,000 party...

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• Greenpeace activists arrested for blocking French nuclear shipment

  - 2005-12-01

  LE HAVRE, France AFP — French special forces arrested more than 20 Greenpeace environmental activists as they tried to prevent a Russian ship from loading nuclear waste bound for Siberia. In a two-hour operation, police rounded up 19 activists one by one after they spread across the port site,...

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• I see no ships, no demonstrators -- Geldof's Sail 8 flotilla flops

  - 2005-07-03

  LONDON AFP — A day after Bob Geldof's dazzling Live 8 concerts, his tie-in Sail 8 appeared a total disaster as just four boats -- carrying a grand total of zero demonstrators -- made it back to Britain from France. Participants admitted the stunt, designed to aid masses of...

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• US nuclear reprocessing shipment heads through France by road

  - 2004-10-07

  CHERBOURG, France AFP — A lorry suspected to be carrying a shipment of plutonium from US weapons arsenals, to be reprocessed in southeast France, left a retreatment plant in the country's north under heavy escort, a French television journalist at the scene said. The 140 kilogrammes (300 pounds) of...

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• US nuclear shipment arrives in France

  - 2004-10-06

  CHERBOURG, France AFP — A ship carrying 140 kilograms (308 pounds) of deadly plutonium from weapons arsenals in the United States docked in the French port of Cherbourg, the Areva nuclear processing company announced. A second vessel which had also crossed the Atlantic, leaving from North Carolina on the...

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• French activists rip up genetically modified crops

  - 2004-07-25

  TOULOUSE, France AFP ? Hundreds of activists opposed to genetically modified crops tore out rows of maize in southwestern France and threatened similar future actions of "civil disobedience" to stop the cultivation of bio-engineered food. The group of between 500 and 1,500 was led by Jose Bove, a noted...

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