France to fly out nationals
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Paris - France has chartered several aircraft to evacuate French nationals who wish to leave Ivory Coast and bring in supplies to those who need them, the foreign ministry said in Paris on Tuesday.
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France has selected nearly 7,000 illegal  immigrants out of 30,000 applicants to benefit from a special  one-off measure granting them permanent residency, Interior  Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday.
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France, which is pulling its special  forces soldiers out of Afghanistan, said on Monday it would  temporarily redeploy its remaining troops anywhere in the  country for emergencies.
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French helicopters fired warning shots in a bid to dissuade tens of thousands of demonstrators from heading for Abidjan international airport controlled by French forces since the afternoon following the killing of nine French soldiers, a military source said.
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Violence in cities in Ivory Coast prompted the US to allow embassy workers and families of diplomats to leave after more than 2,000 nationals from France and other countries were evacuated from the West African nation.
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French President Jacques Chirac is expected to announce his retirement on Sunday, as the current favourite to replace him, Nicolas Sarkozy, continues to make waves on the issue of immigration.
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A suspected international terrorist is deported to France on national security grounds, the Home Office says.
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The French government has announced its selling 17.7 percent of Air France-KLM Group, the manager of the sale said. France is going to sell â¬693 million of the Europe&#39;s biggest airline, or $922 million of
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PARIS, Aug 30  - The French government said on Monday it planned to go ahead with the introduction this week of a ban on Islamic headscarves and other religious insignia in schools, despite an ultimatum from extremists holding two French journalists
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Between 200 and 300 expatriates were expected to have been flown out of the west African state by tonight after the British army was called in to evacuate them.
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France plans an operation to rescue about 400 nationals trapped in southern Lebanon, its defence minister says.
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The United States has agreed to hand over to France the last three French detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, judicial officials said Tuesday.
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The Swiss government is sending a passenger aircraft to Abidjan to repatriate Swiss citizens who wish to leave crisis-torn Ivory Coast.
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France on Monday ended one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa -- an airlift that flew more than 5,000 Westerners and others from violence pitting France against its former West African colony.
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UK forces are to undertake an evacuation of British nationals from the west African state of Ivory Coast. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said a company of the Royal Gurkha Regiment is &quot;pre-positioning&quot; in the
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France's president is to sign a nuclear co-operation deal with the United Arab Emirates during a tour of the region.
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France set tough new quotas for the number of illegal immigrants authorities should arrest and expel each month, the new immigration minister said Monday.