France ends toxic alert at Canadian embassy in Paris
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Police in chemical protective suits evacuated Canada's embassy in Paris on Monday when a staff member fell ill after opening the mail, but authorities later said the suspect letter contained no toxic substance.
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Sweden has evacuated its embassyin the Cote d'Ivoire amid warnings of more violence, Radio Sweden reported on Tuesday.
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Syria on Wednesday suspended diplomatic cooperation with France aimed at ending the political crisis in Lebanon -- a move that mirrored earlier similar action by Paris.
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Stamping camembert with a "carbon footprint" rating. Charging Parisians for the empty Bordeaux bottles they discard. Banning high speeds through the pasture-lined highways of the Loire Valley.
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Deadly toxic waste which caused a   health crisis in Ivory Coast will be shipped to France for   treatment in mid-October, a French embassy official said on   Tuesday, as the death toll from the scandal reached eight.
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French President Jacques Chirac announces his decision to bow out of politics in a televised address from the Elysee Palace on March 11.Comment
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Rwanda severed diplomatic ties with France on Friday in response to a French judge's decision to issue international arrest warrants for nine ranking Rwandans suspected of plotting the 1994 killing of the African nation's president.
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Violence in cities in Ivory Coast prompted the US to allow embassy workers and families of diplomats to leave after more than 2,000 nationals from France and other countries were evacuated from the West African nation.
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France on Monday ended one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa -- an airlift that flew more than 5,000 Westerners and others from violence pitting France against its former West African colony.
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Hunters have shot dead the last female brown bear native to the Pyrenees, condemning the species to extinction and causing an &quot;environmental catastrophe&quot; for France, the government said.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The woman charged with monitoring the government's environmental efforts has been fired.  Environment Commissioner Johanne Gelinas was replaced following months of friction with her boss, Auditor General Sheila Fraser, sources confirmed Tuesday.
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Under a treaty known as the Montreal Protocol, methyl bromide was to be banned for most uses by the end of this year.
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The United States closed its embassy in Macedonia to the public and advised Americans to avoid all US government offices in the country after receiving information about a "potential threat" to the facilities.
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Â· Officials back nuclear inspector's warning Â· Tehran denounces French extremism in row
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The French government's note of alarm isn't  directed solely towards Tehran but Russia and China too
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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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French police on Sunday ended their practice of hiding plastic explosives in air passengers' luggage to train bomb-sniffing dogs after one such bag got lost, possibly ending up on a flight out of Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport.