France has little sympathy for internet piracy. Last year the French Parliament passed one of the toughest laws against illegal downloading. It can be considered France’s version of the three strikes law.
Be caught three times as an internet pirate and you may be fined, imprisoned and your household faces being banned from internet access.
That has [...]

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This is one of those stories that is hard to determine what is the truth. The Taliban claim that the French tried to pay off the Taliban so as not to be attacked. First of all, this is coming from a Taliban official so it might be an attempt to split the anti-Taliban alliance in [...]

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Recently, a Muslim woman was barred from entering a public pool in France because she was wearing a burkini.  The burkini is swimwear developed by Ahiida for a Muslim woman. 
From what I understand, the law is in effect for two reasons. One, that the head to toe clothing is considered a sign of subservience by most French. The other [...]

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Now that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has dumped his 43-year-old Justice Minister and single mother, Rachida Dati, Sarkozy has taken on a new, attractive French woman for his cabinet.
Dati, of Algerian heritage, was a symbol for France’s increasingly diverse racial profile.
Christine Kelly is to be the new Minister for Oversees Territories. Kelly is a former bathing [...]

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The French town of Eu is considering changing its name. Tourism is down by a third and Eu blames internet search engines for the decline.
When Eu is entered in a French search engine, results for the European Union and even the past participle for the French term “avoir” appear. Type in Eu in Google and [...]

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The collision between British and French nuclear submarines is an astonishingly freak accident once all the facts are looked at it.
Both the British and French always keep at least one nuclear submarine in stealth mode. It is a deterrent to nuclear war, as supposedly no other nuclear power will dare start a nuclear with that [...]

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Here is the simple way to ground a country’s air force…
The Telegraph is reporting that fighter planes in the French navy were unable to take off after their computers were infected by a computer virus.
The aircraft were unable to download their flight plans after databases were infected by a Microsoft virus they had already been [...]

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Local authorities in France are installing a new type of parking meter that detects the presence of a vehicle and alerts police when the prepaid time has expired.
The meters have a magnetic field that detects a vehicle’s mass. The meters have a direct link to a police station.
The Telegraph reports how it works in one [...]

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France’s Justice Minister Rachida Dati has given birth to a baby girl, Zohra.
Dati is unmarried and the identity of the father remains secret. Dati will only say she has “a complicated private life.”
Several prominent European men have give public denials that they are the father, including a former Spanish Prime Minister and a sports figure.
Imagine [...]

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A court case against Nicolas Sarkozy voodoo dolls has ruled in favor of the voodoo doll maker.
Sarkozy had sought to halt the sale of the dolls, claiming it infringed on the rights to his own image.
The court did not agree but in an odd ruling claimed that the manufacturer must post a statement with the [...]

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