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WORLD / NEWS Thu Feb 11, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- Bindi Dupouy, an Australian living in Paris, and her French husband, just had their first child, a son born in Paris... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Feb 3, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- France has denied citizenship to a man because he allegedly forced his wife to wear a full Islamic veil, the French immigration minister said in a statement Wednesday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Feb 2, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Nearly 10 years after the deadly crash of an Air France Concorde jet, a trial is set to start Tuesday to determine who is to blame over the doomed flight... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jan 25, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- French lawmakers could recommend Tuesday that the fiercely secular country ban the burqa, the full-body covering worn by some Muslim women... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Jan 10, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Police arrested four of the "most-wanted" suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA overnight in France and Portugal, including one who stole a police car to try to escape, Spain's Interior Ministry said Sunday in a statement... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Dec 13, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Air accident investigators are to resume the search for the flight data recorders from an Air France airliner that mysteriously crashed off Brazil six months ago, according to media reports Sunday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Oct 27, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A French court on Tuesday convicted the Church of Scientology and six of its members of organized fraud, but stopped short of banning the church... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Aug 20, 2009 @ 3:09pm neoform

CNN -- French investigators have ended the second phase of their search for the flight recorders from Air France Flight 447, the French air accident investigation agency BEA said Thursday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jul 18, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The French are in for a significant cultural shift next week if the Senate approves a new law from President Nicolas Sarkozy to allow more shops to open on Sundays... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jul 2, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The Air France plane that crashed last month with 228 people aboard "did not break up or become destroyed in flight," the French air investigation agency announced today. "The plane went straight down," investigator Alain Bouillard said... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jul 2, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- A teenage girl who survived a plane crash off the Comoros islands by clinging to wreckage in the Indian Ocean has flown back to Paris on a ministerial plane... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jun 27, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The Brazilian military said late Friday it is calling off the search for bodies of passengers and crew from the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic earlier this month... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 25, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Search crews have recovered the bodies of the flight captain and a steward from the Air France flight that crashed off the coast of Brazil on June 1. The two flight members are among the victims that have been identified, Air France said in a statement Thursday. About a dozen victims have been identified among roughly 50 bodies recovered. Crews continue to search for bodies, wreckage and flight-data recorders... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jun 22, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Eleven of the 50 bodies recovered from the crash of Air France Flight 447 this month over the Atlantic Ocean have been identified, Brazilian authorities said... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jun 20, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Air France will pay families about €17,500 ($24,500) in initial compensation for each victim of the crash of Flight 447 this month, the company's chief executive said Friday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jun 19, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- At least some of the bodies recovered from the Air France crash this month had broken bones, Brazilian authorities have told French investigators, evidence that suggests the flight broke apart before hitting the ocean... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 18, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- A top executive for the company which built the "black box" aboard Air France Flight 447 says he hopes his firm's 100 percent recovery record from air accidents will be maintained despite fears the device may be lost at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jun 17, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Authorities are most unlikely to recover all parts of the Air France plane that went down June 1 in the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people aboard, an official with France's air accident investigation board says... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 11, 2009 @ 3:01pm neoform

CNN -- There should be no assumed link between on-board speed sensors and the crash of Air France Flight 447 into the Atlantic Ocean last week, the airline's chief executive said Thursday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jun 10, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The first bodies to be recovered from the crash of Air France 447 are due to arrive at a Brazilian Air Force base in Recife, Brazil, Wednesday afternoon local time, the air force announced... Read More