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    • Wednesday Morning Spice

      15 Jan 2014 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments

      Is Hollande’s mistress pregnant? ‘Blurred Lines’ lawsuit settled. Another famous British sex pest occurs. ANC says DA won’t win Gauteng. Russia expels US journo first time since cold war. US government spends fortune on penis pumps.

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    • It’s All Happening At Roland Garros – Tennis Player Smashes Racquet, Gives Himself Team Talk Inside Towel [VIDEO]

      03 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments

      Ah, this is so blind. Mikhail Youzhny, a Russian tennis player who you’ve never heard of took losing a little bit too personally today at the French Open. Things started to go awry for Youzhny against Germany’s Tommy Haas, so naturally he smashed his racquet to pieces, bludgeoning the graphite masterpiece nine times against his […]

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    • Blood On The Streets Of Paris As Gay Marriage Protests Turn Violent [VIDEO]

      27 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment

      Last week a timid protest against the new gay marriage law in fact saw the beautiful streets of Paris tainted with violence and anger. Click through to see what went down.

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    • Man Protests Gay Marriage By Blowing Head Off At The Notre Dame Cathedral Alter In Paris

      22 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments

      Former writer and activist, Dominique Venner, offed himself in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral on Tuesday, in a protest against gay marriage.

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    • You Don’t Have To Be A Millionaire To Live The Holiday – Man Retires At 33

      20 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment

      Why wait until you’re old and can’t really enjoy what you have been saving for all your life, retirement. Is retirement wasted on the old? This 33-year-old journalist believes it is and has taken a very early retirement.

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    • French Gangster Blasts Out Of Prison, Hollywood Style [PIC]

      15 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      France got their own taste of an epic, Hollywood-style Prison Break this last Saturday, when one of their most notorious gangsters, Redoine Faid escaped from prison. Faid has claimed that his crimes are inspired by Scarface and Heat

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    • ‘Hunting The Black Diamond’ – Truffle Hunting In Provence

      05 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Apart from the history, the buildings, the food, the wine, the beauty and the quirky people, and just when you thought that you had seen everything, Provence keeps popping up with something unique and memorable. Truffle-hunting!

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    • Why Paris Restaurants Are Putting As Much Horse As They Can On Their Menus

      04 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments

      The French are applauding the recent outbreak of horse meat in beef-labelled products. With horse meat consumption showing a steady decline over the last three decades, France has translated the scandal into a trend. There are currently 750 butchers in the country, with 17% of the population claiming to have eaten horse meat. 11 000 […]

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    • Monday Morning Spice

      04 Feb 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments

      Top building firms in racketeering probe. French women may legally wear pants in Paris. Superbowl result. US hostage drama enters day 6. S.Korea and US begin drills following N.Korea threat. New Lena Dunham series in the pipeline.

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    • French Want Google To Pay For Linking Articles

      29 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments

      The French President, Francois Hollande, is in favour of a law that would seek to force Internet search engines like Google to pay a fee for displaying links to newspaper articles.

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    • Second Set Of Kate Middleton Pics Published In Danish Mag, Hits The Internet

      01 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment

      Not great for the Duchess of Cambridge, as the second set of topless (and now bottomless as well) pics was published in Se og Hør magazine. When will this invasion of her privacy end? Click for more (N5FW).

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    • France To Shut 20 Embassies Around The World Over Cartoon Fears

      19 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments

      French authorities are getting nervous that the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in magazine Charlie Hebdo may result in violent backlashes.

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    • French Police Find Girl Alive In Car Eight Hours After Killings

      06 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      For some reason, investigators decided against opening a car following a gruesome shooting attack on a family of British holidaymakers on a remote road in the French Alps yesterday.

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    • Transatlantic Flight Makes Emergency Landing Following Strange Bomb Threat

      23 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment

      If you’ve gone through security at an airport recently, and I mean it real security, not the quick glance-and-pat that we have here in SA, then you’ll know that sneaking anything onto a plane is damn near impossible. Even a bottle of water. Which is why this woman’s threat was so unique.

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    • France To Make Visiting “Hate” Websites Illegal

      26 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      French President, Nicolas Sarkozy announced late last week that his government will make visiting websites that advocate terrorism or hate a crime, punishable by fines or even prison. Au revoir, internet freedom?

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    • “French Killer Has Been Shot Dead” – Police Sources

      22 Mar 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments

      A fresh new report has confirmed that the man who went on three shooting outings in and around Toulouse in France (and probably filmed all of it), one Mohammed Merah (pictured), has been killed, according to police sources. This is what is coming through on SKYNews 24hour TV right now. You can watch that streaming […]

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    • France Killer Might Have Filmed The Whole Thing

      21 Mar 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments

      Reports are coming out of France from every major news corporation in the world, following the third shooting within the last two weeks. The last shooting this last weekend targeted Jewish children, many of whom were shot point-blank range in the skull, as he picked them off – wearing a helmet and escaping every time […]

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    • BREAKING: Three Dead In Jewish School Shooting In France

      19 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      A lone gunman has opened fire on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, this morning. Three people, of which two are children, are confirmed dead, with at least another two persons reported wounded. Full details inside.

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    • Dominique Strauss-Kahn Being Questioned In French Prostitution Inquiry

      21 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Dominique Strauss-Kahn, that former head of the IMF who totally didn’t rape anybody, is being questioned by French police as a suspect in a prostitution ring inquiry, a prosecutor says. The man who was probably going to be the next president of France could be held for up to 48 hours.

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    • “Footsteps” By Simon Burrow – Provence And The Luberon Valley

      26 Jan 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments

      Everyone knows the greatest holidays are the ones where “we bumped into this local guy, who knew about all the secret spots and gave us bits and pieces of information and facts that no-one else knew.” Nobody wants to go to every single tourist hotspot and, if they do, they want to tick the right […]

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    • Salma Hayek Knighted In France

      03 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy announced today that Mexican-born actress Salma Hayek will become a Chevalier – or Knight – of the Legion of Honour for her services to the French Republic. The news was not too well received by all, with some labeling the country’s honours system “a laughing stock.”

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    • “Coke Tax” Approved In France

      29 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Having taxes on the things that are bad for you is something everyone has to deal with. There’s tax on smoking, tax on booze, and tax on gambling. In a move to remove all the fun out of your life, the French government has now introduced a tax on sugary soft drinks.

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    • French Weekly Gets Firebombed For Satirizing Muhammad, Does It Again

      08 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments

      Charlie Hebdo, French satirical weekly, was firebombed a week ago, after the publication put a caricature of the prophet Muhammad on the cover of an issue criticising the rise of Sharia law in the Middle East post-Arab Spring. And their newest issue has a caricature of the prophet making out with Hebdo’s editor.

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    • Risk Of Radioactive Leakage After Explosion At French Nuclear Plant

      12 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      There are reports of a blast at the southern French nuclear plant of Marcoule, in the Gard region – with further claims that there is a risk of radioactive leakage. The explosion followed a fire in a radioactive waste storage sight, killing one person and injuring three more.

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    • French Journalists, Held By Taliban Since December 2009, Freed

      30 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      After 547 days of being held as hostages in Afghanistan, two French journalists,Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier, have been released and are due back in France today. The two were kidnapped on the 30th of December 2009 along with their Afghan translator, fixer and driver in the mountainous Kapisa province northeast of the Afghan capital of Kabul.

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    • France Uses A 1992 Law To Ban ‘Follow Us On Twitter’

      06 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment

      I know this isn’t the worst thing to happen to French civil liberties by a long shot, but still; the interpretation of a law prohibiting ‘commercial advertising’ – which, in effect, will mean that newsreaders may no longer mention Facebook or Twitter, unless the story is about Facebook or Twitter – makes total social media sense. Total.

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    • France Introduces Burqa Ban Today – Ban Defied

      11 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments

      The controversial law banning full-face veils came into effect today in France, home to Europe’s largest Muslim population. Public wearing of niqabs or burqas is now liable for a fine of 150 euros and a citizenship course; people charged with forcing women to wear full-face veils may be subject to jail time.

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    • Monday Morning Badvertising – This Time From France!

      29 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment

      I don’t understand this. At all. I mean, I’m tempted to just leave this here and let you guys draw your own conclusions, but I feel like you’re owed some kind of explanation. Which is unfortunate, because I have nothing for you. Sexualized CGI animals. Using Orangina as a household product. In France.

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    • ‘Niqabitches’ protest Burka Ban

      21 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Two French students, calling themselves the ‘Niqabitches,’ have posted a video of themselves strolling through Paris wearing the niqab with hot pants and high heels, in protest of France’s recent burka ban. They seem like very nice young ladies.

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