Racist attacks cast shadow over French liberation celebrations
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Paris partied to celebrate the 60th anniversary of liberation from Nazi occupation yesterday, but its mayor warned that, faced with a recent surge in racist and anti-semitic attacks, the city needed to recover the courage it had shown in the summer of 1944
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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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Prayers replaced parties to mark New Year's in much of Asia, and in Europe black cloth draped the Champs Elysees, as sorrow over the death and destruction from this week's quake and tsunamis overshadowed celebration.
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JACQUES Chirac and French political and religious leaders voiced outrage yesterday over an arson attack that burned down a Jewish social centre in central Paris.
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Riots in Hungary attract comment from across the continent, and papers also scrutinise the political legacy of French leader Jacques Chirac.
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Chileans celebrated the death of the former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet in Santiago but violence marred the revelry.
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The tears, the joy, and the euphoria that ushered in the liberation of Paris 60 years ago Wednesday were on the agenda of a grandiose fete to help Parisians relive the day they threw off the shackles of Nazi occupation.
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Gains by the far right worry commentators in Germany and Austria, while France's Le Monde condemns racism in Corsica.
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French President Jacques Chirac on Wednesday called for an end to contempt and hate at ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of Paris&#39; liberation from Nazi occupation.
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A joint French-Spanish operation against the Basque separatist movement Eta is the focus of Spanish press comment on Monday, while in France, commentators denounce a botched attempt to free the two French journalists in Iraq.
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In the latest anti-semitic attack to shock France, arsonists attacked a Jewish community centre in the 11th arrondissement of Paris in the early hours of yesterday and daubed Nazi symbols on its walls, doors and furniture.
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Racism and violence have clouded Paris' premier soccer team for 20 years, but France's leaders are determined to stomp it out after a shooting death outraged the nation and exposed the long-ignored problem.
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Chanting &quot;We want the French!&quot; a crowd of armed and angry young men swept past La Planta, a club owned by an Ivorian. They started to attack the nearby Byblos
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Large crowds have lined Paris streets to witness military columns roll through marking the 60th anniversary of the cityâs liberation from German occupation.
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LUIS ARAGONÃS yesterday attempted to draw a line under the controversy surrounding his racist comments caught on camera last month.
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The racist chanting by Spanish fans at Wednesday&#39;s friendly between Spain and England brought a furious reaction from all sectors both political and football.
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An attack on three Latvian men in County Armagh may have been racially motivated, police say.