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Dutch elections: Wilders' far-right PVV loses ground in shift to centre

France, Oct. 31 -- With 99 per cent of votes counted, the Dutch election has ended in a dead heat between D66 and Geert Wilders' PVV. Leiden University professor Bernard Steunenberg says the result si... Read More


French parliament approves far-right motion opposing 1968 Franco-Algerian accord

France, Oct. 31 -- France's National Assembly has for the first time voted a motion pushed by the far-right National Rally urging the repeal of a 1968 agreement which grants Algerian citizens special ... Read More


Five more suspects arrested over Paris's Louvre crown jewels heist

France, Oct. 30 -- Police have arrested five more suspects linked to the theft of treasures worth €88 million from the Louvre museum's Apollo gallery, the Paris prosecutor has said, expressing h... Read More


WEEKEND: The long quest to uncover 'ghost graves' of Algerian Harkis interned in France

France, Oct. 30 -- France is dotted by former camps where Harkis -Algerians who fought for the French during Algeria's war of independence - were housed with their families after France lost its colon... Read More


French trial examines Holocaust Memorial graffiti allegedly linked to Russia

France, Oct. 30 -- Three Bulgarian men are on trial in Paris this week for alleged involvement in spray-painting blood-red hands on the city's Holocaust Memorial - an act of vandalism that French inte... Read More


Centrist D66 narrowly leads far-right PVV in knife-edge Dutch vote, exit polls show

France, Oct. 30 -- The centrist Democrats 66 (D66) have taken a slim lead in the Dutch parliamentary election, according to exit polls, narrowly ahead of the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) in a tig... Read More


Curfew declared in Tanzania's main city after election-day protests

France, Oct. 30 -- Authorities in Tanzania have imposed a curfew in Dar es Salaam, the country's biggest city, following violent unrest between the police and protesters that erupted during Wednesday'... Read More


France changes criminal code to define rape as sex without consent

France, Oct. 30 -- The French Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a bill definingrape and sexual assault as any non-consensual act, making France the latest European country to enshrine the pri... Read More


France changes criminal code to define sex without consent as rape

France, Oct. 30 -- The French Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a bill definingrape and sexual assault as any non-consensual act, making France the latest European country to enshrine the pri... Read More


NGOs urge humanitarian push at Great Lakes conference in Paris

France, Oct. 30 -- France and Togo are co-hosting a conference in Paris on Thursday to support peace and prosperity in the Great Lakes region of Africa. A coalition of international NGOs will urge par... Read More