France chooses northern city for Louvre annex
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The northern French town of Lens has been selected as the site of an annex to the Louvre museum in Paris as part of a plan to culturally and economically boost neglected parts of the country, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, seeking to cement political and business ties with a booming India, voiced support at the start of an official visit for New Delhi's controversial nuclear deal with the United States.
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One of the world's leading impressionist art collections can move from the Philadelphia suburbs to a new downtown location where its financial future may be more secure, a judge ruled on Monday.
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India's northern town of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, is gearing up for French President Nicolas Sarkozy's brief visit to the world famous monument to love over the weekend, police said Friday.
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France has no plans to pull its troops out of Afghanistan and will remain loyal to its allies serving in a multinational force there, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday
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Iran's nuclear ambitions and the need to secure Russian energy supplies to the EU were expected to dominate a summit in an elegant chateau north of Paris between the leaders of France, Russia and Germany.
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The Louvre is just too full of art, and relief is now on the way. The French government has announced plans to build the Louvre II, an offshoot of the famed Paris museum, in northern France as a home for much ...
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Lens, fewer than 50 miles from the Channel tunnel in north-east France, is to be home to an "overspill" branch of the celebrated Louvre museum in Paris.
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French architect Christian de  Portzamparc has been named to design the world's largest and  most ambitious museum dedicated to the history of film and the  Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on  Thursday.
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The Apollo Gallery, one of the glories of the Louvre Museum in Paris, will throw open its art treasures to public gaze again from November 27 after a 4.5-million-euro (5.9-million-dollar), three-year makeover.
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Choosing a German city to be the home of the European Central Bank and its new currency, the euro, was a diplomatic challenge worthy of Talleyrand.
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The Russian gas monopoly Gazprom chose French oil major Total on Thursday to help develop its giant Shtokman gas field, in an apparent breakthrough for troubled Russian-EU energy relations.
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Major League Baseball has chosen Washington, DC as the new home of the Montreal Expos, a city official has told The Associated Press.
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Politics: 7 October 2004, Thursday. A Bulgarian culture and information center will be opened in Paris by the prime minister, who is currently on a visit in the French capital.
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French are divided over the nationwide ban on smoking in public places that goes into effect on Thursday
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Lo ha riferito fonte ambasciata di Francia a Nouakchott
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meet with three European Ambassadors(L to R); German&#39;s Paul von Maltzahn, Britain&#39;s Richard Dalton and French&#39;s Francois Nicoullaud at Saadabad palace in Northern Tehran November 14, 2004.