By Marion Douet TOURNEMIRE, France (Reuters) – A long slow retreat from nuclear power in France or indecision over policy could be very risky as skilled staff retire and young people reject careers with an uncertain future, [...]

France legalizes same-sex marriage after wrenching national debate, protests.

National editor’s pick of the top news stories in the nation and world at this hour: Ricin suspect released; no poison found The Mississippi man accused of sending ricin along with taunting letters to President Barack Obama and a Republican [...]

The legislation is expected to be approved by the Constitutional Council and signed into law by President François Hollande in time to allow the country’s first same-sex weddings this summer. Passage of the “marriage for all” [...]

One of the biggest protests against same-sex marriage drew together hundreds of thousands of people bused in from the French provinces — conservative activists, schoolchildren with their parents, retirees, priests and others. That demonstration [...]

By Marion Douet TOURNEMIRE, France | Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:44am EDT TOURNEMIRE, France (Reuters) – A long slow retreat from nuclear power in France or indecision over policy could be very risky as skilled staff [...]

Imagine what might happen if some of Chicago’s most inventive jazz musicians embarked on a multi-year collaboration with their counterparts in France. Just think of the music that might result, the insights that could be shared, the audiences [...]

PARIS — France legalized gay marriage on Tuesday after a wrenching national debate and protests that flooded the streets of Paris. Legions of officers and water cannon stood ready near France’s National Assembly ahead of the final vote, [...]

23 April 2013 Last updated at 15:20 GMT Opponents held vigils on the eve of the vote The French parliament has approved a bill legalising same-sex marriage and adoption, following a divisive public debate. France becomes the [...]

BEIJING, April 23 (Xinhua) — French President Francois Hollande will be the first leader of a Western power to visit Beijing after China’s new leadership took office. Hollande’s appearance will surely boost mutual political [...]

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The remains of two First World War soldiers have been laid to rest in a cemetery in northern France, almost 100 years after they were killed in action. Lieutenant John Harold Pritchard and Private Christopher Douglas Elphick, of The Honourable [...]

BY JASON NG KUALA LUMPUR—Air France-KLM’s incoming chief executive Tuesday said the Franco-Dutch airline is seeking a new partner to give its business in Southeast Asia and Australia some extra thrust, just as growth in [...]

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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has made credibility with bond investors the linchpin of his deficit-reduction policy. In France, Socialist President Francois Hollande has called financial markets his enemy. With all that, bond investors [...]

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(CNN) — France is set to become the latest nation to legalize same-sex marriage Tuesday, despite vocal opposition from conservatives, when legislation goes before lawmakers in the lower house for a final vote. The bill, which would [...]

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Ads Of The World This thought-provoking campaign from DDB Paris takes aim at illiteracy. But at first glance, the ads appear to be everything but illiteracy awareness spots. The campaign imitates other ads for a wide variety of products, posing [...]

BRUSSELS – Reuters Despite the overall economic outlook that shows an improvement in eurozone, France and Spain missed their budget deficit goals last year, according to figures revealed by the EU statistic body [...]

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21 April 2013 Last updated at 22:00 GMT The anti-gay marriage march passed off peacefully At least 45,000 people have attended the last big rally against same-sex marriage and adoption in Paris before the bill is expected to [...]

April 22, 2013 4:13 pm By Gideon Rachman

The final vote in the legislature is expected to be quick, since the Socialist government of President François Hollande has a safe voting majority. But there has been an intensification of opposition to the bill in the past few weeks, as [...]

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Jean Cocteau Museum Menton’s register of visitors resembles a Who’s Who of British luminaries. Some, like Aubrey Beardsley, were never to leave. Katherine Mansfield wrote stories in the Villa Isola Bella. Churchill painted landscapes. [...]

April 22, 2013 4:13 pm By Gideon Rachman

France Telecom SA (FTE) had its debt rating cut one step by Standard Poor’s, which cited pricing pressure in the French wireless market and a bigger-than- anticipated decline in earnings this year. The long-term rating was reduced to BBB+, [...]

Another anti-gay attack in France left a young man bleeding and unconscious in the south of France, the Local reports: A gay couple were attacked as they left a night club in the Mediterranean city of Nice at the weekend in the latest apparent [...]

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