Stolen scooter enlivens French politics
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When thieves made off with a scooter belonging to a son of French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy, police got cracking: with help from fingerprints and DNA tests, they caught three suspects within two weeks.
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The tony Paris suburb that made the French president's political career is not amused by his antics, and may take it out on Sarkozy's pick for mayor
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French police are investigating the disappearance of a colourful English aristocrat who spent much of his time partying on the French Riviera, say police officials.
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S. African Government Condemns Accusations That It Is Being Used As Springboard for Haiti&#39;s Aristide. A boy passes a car that says &quot;Aristide King&quot; in the pro-Aristide slum of Bel-Air in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2004.
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French motorists may be driving more recklessly than usual because they are counting on the traditional pardon by the incoming president after the election in May, the transport minister said.
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The French commissioner, Jacques Barrot, is facing criticism for failing to disclose a conviction for embezzlement. Mr Barrot, the Transport Commissioner, was given an amnesty for his conviction four years ago.
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A vehicle specially adapted for a family's severely disabled son has been stolen from a house in Dunmurry.
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The French seem to take intermittent pride in being the homeland of the satirist Voltaire.
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Police officers in the Dutch city of Alkmaar were surprised to see a car passing by with a man sitting on a bicycle on its roof.
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Â· Rightwing pressure wins commutation for ScooterÂ· Democrats say president has trampled on the law
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PARIS In a move that could change the face of French politics, Nicolas Sarkozy, the popular finance minister whose personal and ideological differences with President Jacques Chirac are well known, took over the helm of the governing center-right party on
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Guinean ministers' four-wheel drives are confiscated and replaced with small cars on the orders of the president.
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French police arrest a man suspected of joyriding in a stolen aircraft and escaping from waiting police.
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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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Thieves have stolen a three-month-old 12-kilogram (26.5 pounds) tiger from a zoo at Frejus in southern France and keepers worry he could be turned loose into surrounding countryside and run wild, they said.
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PARIS, France -- French motorcycle rider Richard Sainct, who won the Paris-Dakar rally three times, has been killed in a crash in the Pharaohs Rally in Egypt.
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She lost an election. Now S&#201;gol&#200;ne Royal has shed a mate. In France the marital exploits of the nation's pols are becoming fair game