French port blockade ends
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A protest by French fishermen which blocked the port of Calais leaving ferry passengers stranded comes to an end.
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CHERBOURG, France  - A heavily guarded ship  carrying a large shipment of U.S. weapons-grade plutonium  docked in the French port of Cherbourg on Wednesday, defying  protesters who say the shipment is vulnerable to terrorist  attack.
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The air travel embargo ended Thursday, but restrictions will remain at sea until international naval forces are ready.
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A US treasure-hunting boat is allowed to leave Algeciras port in Spain following a dispute with authorities.
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A boat carrying 400 illegal migrants was finally allowed to dock in Mauritania on Monday, after being stranded for 10 days in international waters off the northwest African country's coast.
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BEIRUT -- Israel lifted its sea blockade of Lebanon yesterday, ending the country's two months of isolation as the task of preventing the entry of Hezbollah weapons falls to international warships patrolling offshore.
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The Suez Canal is closed for the first time in 30 years after becoming blocked by a broken down oil tanker.
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Two French journalists were heading home to France on Wednesday after the end of a 4-month hostage ordeal in Iraq which left many unanswered questions about the government's handling of the crisis.
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The U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon   said Israel ended its naval blockade on Lebanon on Friday after   an international naval force became operational off the   Lebanese coast.
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PARIS  - Paris took the exceptional step Wednesday of shutting all of the city's parks and its popular temporary beach along the rising Seine River as violent storms hit France.
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Loading worried families onto the last two jumbo jets, France concluded one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa yesterday - an airlift that flew more than 5,000 Westerners away from violence pitting France against its former prize West
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Denmark ends the evacuation of some 200 Iraqis who it feared faced danger for their links to its troops in Iraq.
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Looking to end the crisis in Darfur, France won agreement on Thursday from three involved African nations that they would not support armed rebel movements on each other's territories.Comment
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French police on Sunday ended their practice of hiding plastic explosives in air passengers&#39; luggage to train bomb-sniffing dogs after one such bag got lost, possibly ending up
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An Africa-France summit seen as President Jacques Chirac's goodbye to Africa is drawing to a close after a shaky agreement was signed to prevent violence in Darfur from spreading.
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French President Jacques Chirac visited ventures by his countrymen in the business hub of Shanghai Tuesday as he wrapped up a China trade mission that yielded big contracts but failed to cinch a hoped-for deal ...
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LUXEMBOURG  - The European Union on Monday ended 11 years of sanctions against Libya and eased an arms Embargo to reward the North African country for giving up plans to develop weapons of mass destruction.