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EU leaders look to end Apple-style tax avoidance schemes
ReutersBRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - Growing concern in European capitals about aggressive tax avoidance by high-profile corporations such as Amazon, Google and Apple looks set to steal the agenda of a European Union summit in Brussels on Wednesday. The summit was...Tags: France, Politics, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Paris (France)
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Gay marriage opponent kills himself in Paris' Notre Dame
ReutersPARIS (Reuters) - An 78-year-old French far-right activist committed suicide at the altar of the Notre Dame cathedral on Tuesday by shooting himself in the mouth, three days after a law legalizing same-sex marriage came into effect. Police evacuated...Tags: France, Politics, Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage, Suicide
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Outlook dim as Syria diplomacy gathers force
ReutersAMMAN/LONDON (Reuters) - The world's diplomats will make a major new push in the coming days for negotiations to end Syria's civil war, but their chances of achieving a peace deal look as remote as ever. President Bashar al-Assad poured scorn on new...Tags: Peace Negotiations, France, Politics, Bashar Assad, United Kingdom
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After crushing Mali Islamists, France pushes deal with Tuaregs
ReutersBAMAKO (Reuters) - After winning adulation across Mali for a five month military offensive that crushed al Qaeda fighters, France is now frustrating some of its allies by pushing for a political settlement with a separate group of Tuareg rebels. A...Tags: France, Politics, Ban Ki-moon, Armed Forces, Elections
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French president signs gay marriage into law after wrenching national debate
Associated PressPARIS (AP) — France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption by same-sex couples and ending months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate....Tags: Justice System, Justice and Rights, France, Gays and Lesbians, Politics
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French president signs law allowing same-sex marriage
PARIS -- French President Francois Hollande on Saturday signed a law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt, after months of sometimes violent protests and the vehement opposition of the country's Roman Catholic Church leaders. The controversial...
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Taxes on some wealthy French top 100 pct of income: paper
ReutersPARIS (Reuters) - More than 8,000 French households' tax bills topped 100 percent of their income last year, the business newspaper Les Echos reported on Saturday, citing Finance Ministry data. The newspaper said that the exceptionally high level of... -
Taxes on some wealthy French top 100 pct of income - paper
Reuters* 8,000 households paid more in tax than they earned * Data show impact of Socialists' one-off levy PARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - More than 8,000 French households' tax bills topped 100 percent of their income last year, the business newspaper Les Echos... -
Armed Tuareg and Arab groups clash in northern Mali
ReutersBAMAKO (Reuters) - Fighting has broken out in northern Mali between Tuareg separatists and local Arab-led gunmen, only days after the African country won a $4.2 billion aid pledge to help it recover from a conflict with Islamists affiliated to al Qaeda....Tags: Rebellions, Politics, National Government, Al-Qaeda, Religious Conflicts
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France's Hollande signs gay marriage law
ReutersPARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill allowing same-sex marriage, making France the 14th country to legalize gay weddings. France's official journal announced on Saturday the bill had become law after the...Tags: Justice System, France, Gays and Lesbians, Political Dissent, Same-Sex Marriage
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France's Hollande's signs gay marriage law
Reuters(Removes superfluous "first" in paragraph) PARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill allowing same-sex marriage, making France the 14th country to legalise gay weddings. France's official journal announced...Tags: Justice System, France, Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage, Family
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France's Hollande's signs gay marriage bill into law
ReutersPARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill allowing same-sex marriage, making France the 14th country to legalise gay weddings. France's official journal announced on Saturday that the bill had become law...Tags: France, Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage, Family, Crime, Law and Justice
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