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    U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet focuses her March 6 address to the U.N. Human Rights Council on the threats posed by global inequality.
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    U.N. Rights Chief Warns Of Threats From Inequality

    Mar 06, 2019
    U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet cautioned that the growing global disparity in wealth, and access to resources and justice, poses risks.
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    Members of a group of French women from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds lay a wreath near the Auschwitz gas chambers earlier this month. After learning more about the horrors of the Holocaust, they hoped to bring greater understanding to their c
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    To Counter Anti-Semitism, French Women Find Strength In Diversity At Auschwitz

    Feb 28, 2019
    With recent incidents of anti-Semitic vandalism in France, a group of women from different religious and ethnic backgrounds sought greater understanding by learning about the horrors of the Holocaust.
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    A burning command car belonging to France's anti-terror squad is pictured as riot police take position near the Eiffel Tower.
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    Yellow Vest Unrest Leaves Protester Severely Injured In Paris

    Feb 09, 2019
    Violence broke out Saturday as yellow vest protesters kept the pressure on French President Emmanuel Macron's government, for the 13th straight weekend of demonstrations.
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    French president Emmanuel Macron takes part in a meeting in Évry-Courcouronnes on Feb. 4.
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    Will Macron's 'Great National Debate' Help Defuse France's Yellow Vest Unrest?

    Feb 08, 2019
    With his government rocked by ongoing yellow vest demonstrations, French President Emmanuel Macron launched a nationwide series of community conversations. But some wonder if anything will change.
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    Protesters take part in an antigovernment yellow vest demonstration in front of the Hôtel National des Invalides in Paris early in January.
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    How France's Yellow Vest Protests Damaged An Already Weakened President Macron

    Jan 24, 2019
    "The media are all talking about us, and we actually made the government back down," says one protester at a traffic circle. "We're not about to accept the crumbs Macron has thrown us."
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    Migrants walk toward a snow-covered pass to cross the border from Italy to France, in January 2018 near Bardonecchia, Italian Alps.
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    Rejected By Italy, Thousands Of Migrants From Africa Risk The Alps To Reach France

    Jan 01, 2019
    This year alone, some 5,000 migrants have attempted to cross from northern Italy into France, according to local municipalities and aid groups. Some have perished along the way. Many are sent back.
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    In this grab taken from validated UGC provided on Thursday, Dec. 27, a boy is airlifted after an avalanche, on the French Alps on Wednesday. Rescuers are calling a true "miracle."
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    'Miracle' Boy Survives Avalanche After Being Buried Alive For 40 Minutes

    Dec 27, 2018
    The 12-year-old was alive and conscious when he was rescued on Wednesday, defying bleak statistics for avalanche victims trapped over 15 minutes. "We can call it a miracle," a rescue captain said.
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    Despite Concessions, Macron's Struggles With Yellow Vest Movement Deepen

    Dec 15, 2018
    NPR's Scott Simon talks to French journalist Anne Nivat about the political situation in her country, where just a quarter of citizens say they approve the president's job performance.
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    Police officers stand near the place where Cherif Chekatt, the alleged gunman who had been a fugitive since allegedly killing three people at a popular Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, was shot dead by police on Thursday.
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    Suspected Strasbourg Shooter Killed By Police, French Authorities Say

    Dec 13, 2018
    The suspect had been the target of a massive manhunt since Tuesday's deadly assault on a Christmas shopping market.
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    A French soldier stands guard at the Christmas market in Strasbourg, in front of the city's cathedral, as police conduct a search for a man suspected of opening fire on a crowd the night before.
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    Manhunt Underway For Suspect In Attack On French Christmas Market

    Dec 12, 2018
    On Tuesday evening, a man opened fire on the famous market in Strasbourg, France, killing two people and leaving a third brain-dead. Hundreds of law enforcement officers are searching for the suspect.
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    French emergency services arrive at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, after a gunman killed at least three people and wounded nearly a dozen more.
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    Gunman Attacks French Christmas Market, Killing At Least 3 And Wounding Several

    Dec 11, 2018
    Initial reports indicate a suspect had been known to authorities as a security risk.
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    French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a special address to the nation on Monday, his first public comments after four weeks of nationwide "yellow vest" (gilet jaune) protests.
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    Macron Promises Minimum Wage Hike And Tax Cuts To End 'Yellow Vest' Protests

    Dec 10, 2018
    In a speech on Monday, France's president declared "a state of social and economic emergency," offering some concessions to his critics. Among them, tax relief for the middle class and pensioners.
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    Yellow vest protesters face off against police in Paris on Saturday.
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    After More 'Yellow Vest' Protests, France's President Macron To Address Nation

    Dec 10, 2018
    Much of the movement's popular anger has crystallized around President Emmanuel Macron, seen as arrogant and out of touch. He will make a televised address Monday evening to try to quell the crisis.
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    The French government is suspending a planned fuel tax hike, after "yellow vest" demonstrators took to the streets for months of protests. On a motorway near Aix-en-Provence, France, on Tuesday, demonstrators set up a barrier.
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    France Freezes Fuel Tax Hike In Face Of Yellow Vest Protests

    Dec 04, 2018
    "No tax deserves to endanger the unity of the nation," French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe says, putting on hold a new tax that was scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1.
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    Demonstrators gather near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris during a protest on Saturday.
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    Who Are France's Yellow Vest Protesters, And What Do They Want?

    Dec 03, 2018
    Nicknamed for the safety vests worn by protesters, the yellow vest movement has sparked a political crisis for the French government. In Paris, demonstrations turned into riots over the weekend.
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    A "Yellow Vest" protester waves a French flag in Villefranche-sur-Saone on Saturday, during a demonstration against high fuel prices.
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    French President Holds Firm On Clean-Energy Goals, Despite Protests

    Nov 27, 2018
    A grassroots movement in France, the mostly working-class "yellow vests," objects to new gasoline taxes. French President Emmanuel Macron says he sympathizes, but the tax will stand.
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    A gap now exists where two buildings collapsed on Monday morning in Marseille, France. A third building was damaged and also torn down.
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    4 Bodies Found After Apartment Buildings Collapse In Marseille, France

    Nov 06, 2018
    A woman who lived in one of the buildings said she stayed with her parents the night before the collapse because many of the doors in her building wouldn't close. "It could have been me," she said.
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    An excavator pulls a car from a river in Villegailhenc. It was just one of many vehicles that were damaged in flash floods overnight in southwest France.
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    Flash Floods Turn Deadly In Southwest France's Aude Region

    Oct 15, 2018
    Three months' worth of rain fell in just a few hours, France's Interior Ministry says. One resident called it "the apocalypse."
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    Notorious French criminal Rédoine Faïd poses prior to an interview with a French TV channel in 2010.
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    Fugitive Who Used Helicopter To Escape Caught In France

    Oct 03, 2018
    The repeat offender has fascinated the country, and is known there as the "jailbreak king." Rédoine Faïd was serving a 25-year-sentence for a botched armed robbery in 2010 that killed a policewoman.
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    The Salt
    The champagne grape harvest in northeastern France, like this one near Mailly-Champagne, started early this year due to lack of rain.
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    Champagne Makers Bubble Over A Bumper Crop Caused By European Drought

    Sep 13, 2018
    A record heat wave ruined crops across Europe this summer, but not all crops. Champagne growers are ecstatic over a bumper crop of grapes this year. Vintage 2018 is expected to be one of the best.
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    A flotilla of more than a hundred trawlers in the Bay of Seine in November of last year.
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    French, British Boats Clash In English Channel Over Scallop Catches

    Aug 28, 2018
    A breakdown in talks blamed partly on Brexit has led the British to resume fishing the lucrative seabed off Normandy throughout the year, while French boats are restricted for part of the year.
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    Nicolas Hulot, the French environmental minister, departs a weekly Cabinet meeting in Paris in February. "I don't want to give the illusion that my presence in government means we're answering these issues properly," Hulot said in resigning Tuesday.
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    French Environment Minister Quits In Live Interview: 'World Is Not Doing Enough'

    Aug 28, 2018
    "I don't want to give the illusion that my presence in government means we're answering these issues properly," Nicolas Hulot said, criticizing President Emmanuel Macron's environmental policies.
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    A falconry show is one of Puy du Fou's historical shows, featuring hundreds of falcons, vultures, kites and owls.
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    French Theme Park Asks: Crows Can Pick Up Trash, Why Can't You?

    Aug 13, 2018
    A team of six trained birds — rooks, actually — is collecting paper and cigarette stubs at the Puy du Fou park in western France. They drop the trash into a container in exchange for food.
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    Marie Laguerre posted a video last week in which a man is seen hitting her after she walked past in Paris.
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    France Bans Street Harassment, Approving Hefty Fines For Catcallers

    Aug 02, 2018
    The measure also expands protections for underage rape victims. The move, which has been months in the making, follows a recent video of a man hitting a woman on the street.
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    A member of the Russian protest-art group Pussy Riot is escorted by stewards during the Russia 2018 World Cup final football match between France and Croatia.
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    Opinion: An Act Of Bravery At The World Cup

    Jul 21, 2018
    NPR's Scott Simon recounts an act of bravery in the World Cup championship game that happened in President Putin's Russia.
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