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| UpdatedBen Barba makes his French rugby union debut for Toulon, coming on late in the Top 14 club's loss to Brive.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, rugby-union, france
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| UpdatedThe French and Australian foreign ministers have this week announced details of an enhanced cooperation deal.
Topics: international-aid-and-trade, pacific, france, australia
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Beverley O'Connor gets the latest from French journalist, Pierre Haski, in the build-up to the French presidential election.
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Conservative candidate Francois Fillon refuses to quit France's rollercoaster presidential race despite receiving a summons to face charges of getting his wife and children taxpayer-funded jobs in which they allegedly did no work.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, elections, france
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| UpdatedToulon suspends former Wallaby James O'Connor over alleged attempts to buy cocaine, with the French club set to decide his future next week.
Topics: sport, rugby-union, france, australia
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A police sharpshooter accidentally wounded two people as French President Francois Hollande was giving a speech in the south-west of France.
Topics: police, government-and-politics, world-politics, france
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| UpdatedA police sharpshooter injures two people after accidentally opening fire during a speech given by French President Francois Hollande in the south-west of France, a police source says.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, france
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| UpdatedFormer Wallaby James O'Connor's alleged cocaine possession appears to have ended his time at Toulon with the French rugby club not looking to renew his contract.
Topics: rugby-union, sport, france, australia
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Nick Kyrgios falls short of defending his Open 13 title in Marseille after losing to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the semi-finals.
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| UpdatedAustralia rugby union international James O'Connor is arrested in Paris on suspicion of attempting to buy cocaine.
Topics: rugby-union, super-rugby, sport, law-crime-and-justice, france, australia
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Nick Kyrgios makes light work of Norbert Gombos to reach the Open 13 semi-finals in Marseille, beating the Slovakian qualifier 6-3, 6-3 in less than an hour.
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| UpdatedBeverley O'Connor speaks to international political scientist Maryse Helbert from the University of Melbourne about allegations French far-right leader Marine Le Pen made illegal payments to her staff.
Topics: world-politics, france, european-union
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| UpdatedCards for diving, saved penalties, end-to-end football and fabulous goals: Manchester City's 5-3 win over Monaco in the Champions League was a match that had everything.
Topics: champions-league, soccer, sport, england, monaco, france
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| UpdatedWhen a large goanna ran into a busy restaurant, a young waitress on a working holiday from France dragged the reptile out by the tail.
Topics: animals, human-interest, offbeat, travel-and-tourism, lifestyle-and-leisure, community-and-society, tathra-2550, bermagui-2546, france
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European football giants Barcelona look set to miss out on the Champions league quarter-finals, after the Catalans are hammered 4-0 by PSG in the first leg of their last-16 tie.
Topics: sport, soccer, champions-league, france, spain, portugal, germany
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The collective grief of thousands of mothers who lost sons and daughters to war is to be recognised in a new Ballarat memorial to be unveiled on Wednesday, the 75th anniversary of the fall of Singapore.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, veterans, world-war-1, world-war-2, history, ballarat-3350, singapore, france
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A deadly avalanche killed at least four people at the French Alps ski resort of Tignes with five people still buried beneath the snow.
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The tennis umpire who copped a ball to the face from an enraged Denis Shapovalov swing undergoes surgery on a fractured eye socket.
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Four people — including a 16-year-old girl — are arrested in and around the southern French city of Montpellier on suspicion of planning an "imminent attack" in France.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, france
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Violence spreads in Paris's northern suburbs for a fourth night and French police arrest more than a dozen people, amid accusations police officers raped and beat a man they were detaining.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, unrest-conflict-and-war, france
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| UpdatedCowra oyster grower Steve Feletti has turned wine producer to recreate his discovery at a fish market in the south of France.
Topics: food-and-beverage, fishing-aquaculture, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, rural, lifestyle, cowra-2794, batemans-bay-2536, france
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French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen blasts globalisation and Islamic fundamentalism at her National Front party conference, echoing US President Donald Trump's pledge of "America First".
Topics: elections, world-politics, france
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| UpdatedThe rise of populism across Europe and a shock "January surprise" have combined to throw the 2017 French presidential race into unchartered territory, writes Europe correspondent Steve Cannane.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, world-politics, france
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| UpdatedA French soldier has reportedly shot and wounded a man armed with a knife after he tried to enter the famous Louvre Museum in central Paris carrying a suitcase.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, police-sieges, france
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| UpdatedAn Egyptian national visiting France on a tourist visa attacks soldiers at the Louvre Museum in Paris with a machete, in what officials are describing as a suspected terror attack.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, defence-and-national-security, france