France says 'pharaoh's hair' scandal in police's hands
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The French government has said the judiciary was working to shed light on the attempted sale by a Frenchman of hair believed to belong to the mummy of Ramses II.
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A French police union is taking the respected Le Petit Robert dictionary to court for including a reference to police as &quot;bloody pigs&quot; in its latest edition, a spokesman said Friday.
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France's Justice Ministry orders an inquiry into Jean-Marie Le Pen's alleged claims about wartime Nazi occupation.
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Paris -- A high-stakes scheme to free two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq threatens to embroil President Jacques Chirac in a political scandal over whether his government assisted private intermediaries in negotiating with terrorists for the hostages
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France's interior minister vowed punishment for police who slipped plastic explosives into a passenger's luggage to train airport bomb-sniffing dogs &#151; then lost the bag &#151; saying Monday that the training method was "scandalous."
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The accusations made in an official US report that French businessmen and politicians received bribes from Saddam Hussein in order to influence government policy in Iraq are &quot;unverified,&quot; the French foreign ministry said.
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A plan by French President Nicolas  Sarkozy to commemorate a young communist resistance hero shot  by France's wartime Nazi occupiers has stirred controversy and  sparked accusations of manipulation by the government.
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The Princess Diana coroner accuses the French of taking a "political" decision not to make paparazzi give evidence.
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The arrest of a Catholic priest drew criticism from human rights groups Thursday, who charged that the US-backed government was illegally trying to suppress support for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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Police receive new information following allegations of racist abuse in Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother.
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When the mayor of Rouen, in Normandy, arranged recently to return the mummified, tattooed head of a Maori warrior to New Zealand, Franceâs Ministry of Culture stepped in to block him.
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Former President Jacques Chirac is likely to be questioned in the coming months over a corruption scandal involving fake jobs created to help fund a conservative political party he headed, his lawyer said Tuesday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Several Haitian policemen  are under investigation over a suspected plot to kill jailed  supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,  including his prime minister, police sources said on Monday.
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Presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy is accused of abusing police power to recover his son's scooter.
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Two French police officers are under formal investigation  over two deaths which prompted rioting in 2005.
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France is to hand over to Egypt a lock of hair said to belong to the mummy of Ramses II that was put on sale on the Internet last year, French officials said Monday.
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Egyptian police have arrested nine French  people, an American and two Belgians on suspicion of forming a  secret Islamist organization linked to "terrorist" groups  abroad, the government said on Monday.