Cars torched over "calm" French New Year
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Vandals torched 372 cars as France  celebrated the New Year, down on the figure last year after a  night the police described as "relatively calm."
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Carmakers displaying their wares at the Paris Motor Show are pushing bold, aggressive designs, even on their smallest models.
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Cars are set alight in an Amsterdam suburb in a sixth day of unrest after a Moroccan man was shot dead by police.
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Around 30 youths pelted a riot police vehicle and a bus with stones and smashed windows in a McDonald's store on Wednesday evening in a Paris suburb that was the scene of riots in November, police said.
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French President Jacques Chirac condemned on Sunday the arson that destroyed a Jewish social center in Paris and extended &quot;all his solidarity&quot; to the Jewish community in France, Chirac&#39;s office declared in a statement.
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France braced for protests after 'brutal' clean-up.
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Arsonists set fire to a Jewish soup kitchen in central Paris early on Sunday morning and daubed Nazi symbols on the building, police said, in the latest anti-Semitic act in France.
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After Smoke Free Day and Car Free Day  comes Sarkozy Free Day.
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Across the globe, people gathered for parties, shot off fireworks and held out hopes for a peaceful and prosperous 2008
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Accidents and violence stretch resources of emergency services during hectic new year period
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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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Police northwest of Paris used tear gas, rubber pellets and fired a warning shot to disperse a crowd that surrounded their vehicle after they tried to stop a driver for not wearing a seat belt, a police union official said Monday.
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ABIDJAN  - Top Ivory Coast and French officials appealed for calm, pledging to cooperate to put down a wave of unrest that left at least 13 dead and hundreds injured in the divided west African state.
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Some 50 masked attackers smashed cars and clashed with police in northeast Paris on Friday night. Three officers were injured, police said.
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French peacekeepers in Ivory Coast use tear gas to calm protests over an alleged bank heist by French troops.
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Thousands of disgruntled taxi drivers disrupted traffic on the streets of France's main cities on Wednesday, protesting against plans to deregulate their industry.
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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.