List of France articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Burning Down the Jungle of Calais
Why is France all of a sudden demolishing its most notorious refugee camp?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Surprise! France’s Destruction of a Refugee Camp Isn’t Going Well
French authorities began to tear down the makeshift camp for migrants and asylum-seekers in Calais Monday.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why the U.S. Strike in Libya Wasn’t Just About Libya
Washington was also trying to protect Tunisia — and help keep the Arab Spring’s only success story from going off the rails.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 France’s John Kasich Is Winning
Once dismissed as an out-of-touch technocrat, Alain Juppé has reinvented himself as France's voice of moderation — and the French love him for it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Libya Matters — Again
The Islamic State is gaining ground in Libya’s chaotic vacuum and Western governments are worried
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Paris Is on Wartime Footing
Three months after the Islamic State attacks, France is on the verge of declaring a state of emergency, forever.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 I Resign, Therefore I Am
Justice Minister Christiane Taubira didn’t just quit -- she tweeted goodbye, published a 94-page philosophical pamphlet, and dropped the mic on France’s rightward lurch.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Who Does No. 2 Work For?!
Spying on world leaders’ poop is a whole lot more common than you’d think — and just as useless.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Burundi Denies Press Crackdown, Then Arrests Two Journalists
Burundi arrested a French journalist and a British photojournalist Thursday, after claiming the country's press is not threatened by the government.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Armed Man Arrested at Disneyland Paris
A man with two handguns has been arrested at Disneyland Paris in France.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Sending Pressure Cookers from France to Tunisia Is Not a Good Idea
FedEx employees were surprised to find what appeared to be pressure cookers and detonators at France's largest airport.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Italy Wants Business Deals With Iran So Badly That It Covered Up Nude Statues
Italian officials pulled out all the stops for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit. That included covering nude statues to avoid offending him.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Could an Entire French Generation Grow Up in a State of Emergency?
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned that France could stay in a state of emergency until the Islamic State is defeated.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 France: No, You Can No Longer Kidnap Your Boss
A group of Goodyear employees are facing jail time for holding executives hostage in 2014.
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A poster with the face of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, reading "Wanted, Again", is displayed at a newsstand in one Mexico City's major bus terminals on July 13, 2015, a day after the government informed of the escape of the drug kingpin from a maximum-security prison. Mexican security forces scrambled Monday to save face and recapture "El Chapo" as authorities investigated whether guards helped him escape prison through a tunnel under his cell. AFP PHOTO / YURI CORTEZ (Photo credit should read YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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