Squatters shame Paris
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A hostel that once housed the female students of an elite French university has been transformed into France's biggest squat and a bleak symbol of its failure to stem a flood of illegal immigrants.
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Once again, arson struck a Jewish center in Paris, and once again condemnations by French government leaders are heard in what has become a routine.
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France launched a hunt for arsonists who destroyed a Jewish centre in Paris after daubing it with anti-Semitic graffiti and swastikas -- the latest in a wave of anti-Jewish acts that has unsettled the country.
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A Jewish social centre in central Paris was destroyed by fire overnight in an anti-Semitic arson attack, city authorities said.
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Some are comparing the Sarkozy family to the Kennedys, while others are saying that their untraditional ways are shameful to the French.
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Residents of the Italian city of Naples torch piles of rotting rubbish amid a worsening refuse crisis.
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An arson attack destroyed a Jewish social club in the heart of Paris yesterday, alarming and infuriating French politicians and Jewish leaders who are struggling to halt an epidemic of anti-Semitic incidents across France.
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A Paris court watched on Friday a surveillance video shot by Islamic militants plotting to bomb a Strasbourg market, in which a commentator brands the French city a modern-day Babylon whose residents would go to hell.
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Asger Lethâs âGhosts of CitÃ© Soleilâ offers a tour of a notorious, hellish slum in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.
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Travel: When Barbara Ellen  and her friend Emma first went to Paris, the city 'spat them out'.  It's time for a rematch
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The memoirs of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his unpublished will go under the hammer in Paris.
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PARIS  - Arsonists razed a Jewish community centre in eastern Paris before dawn Sunday, leaving behind red graffiti with menacing anti-Semitic messages such as "Jews get out."
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Rising property prices are making the gap between rich and poor far worse, housing charity Shelter say.
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Residents of one of the last middle-class bastions in Manhattan say their new landlord is using Orwellian tactics in an attempt to drive them out and raise rents.
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The organizers of London's bid to host the Olympic Games in 2012 reportedly believe that Paris will beat out their city, and are emotionally crushed by their impending defeat.
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The French are arrogant, rude and surly to foreign visitors, said a leading French politician behind a scathing report on how the Gallic welcome leaves much to be desired.
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A celebration marking Paris' 60th anniversary of its liberation from Nazi Germany is planned next week. But nothing official was planned for a more somber anniversary Wednesday &#151; the liberation of a Jewish detention camp outside Paris that ended one of the most shameful episodes in modern French history.