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| May.21 |
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Man kills himself in front of tourists at Notre Dame Cathedral| Dominique Venner, 78, a right-wing historian and author killed himself inside the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in front of horrified tourists | |
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| Mar.13 |
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Europe faces more snow travel chaos Freezing conditions are continuing to disrupt transport in north-west Europe. Large parts of northern France have been placed on ice alert
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| Nov.29 |
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Continental cleared over Concorde crash A French appeals court has cleared US airline Continental of criminal blame for the July 2000 crash of a Concorde jet shortly after take-off from Paris
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| Jul.5 |
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Pilots blamed for Air France disaster  | A series of errors by pilots and a failure to react effectively to technical problems led to the crash of Flight 447, Bureau of Investigation and Analysis said | |
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| Jun.10 |
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Nadal quest halted by rain
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| Nov.8 |
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153 bodies identified from 2009 crash The Airbus A330 had 228 people on board. 103 bodies have been identified since the end of 2009. Fifty had been identified in 2009
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| Jul.29 |
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Aircraft's recorders give insight into crash
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| May.27 |
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Air France crash pilots lost speed data The flight from Rio de Janeiro in 2009 plummeted because pilots lost vital speed data, France's Bureau of Investigation and Analysis
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| May.16 |
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Mystery jet crash data recovered
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| Dec.25 |
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Conditions improve at European airports Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was rebounding after hundreds of flights were canceled because of a shortage of de-icing fluid
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| Dec.24 |
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Paris cancels half of flights Map of Charles de Gaulle France Part of airport was evacuated due to the snow on the roof, and hundreds of flights were canceled because of a shortage of de-icing fluid
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| Dec.19 |
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Severe weather snarls Europe travel. London
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| Dec.6 |
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Airlines, mechanic guilty in Concorde crash
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| Nov.26 |
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Search to resume for Air France 447
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| Feb.28 |
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France declares storms 'national disaster' France has declared a national disaster after violent storms battered parts of the country leaving death and destruction in their wake
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| Dec.12 |
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France to resume 'black box' hunt French accident investigators will begin a third search for the black boxes of an Air France plane that crashed off the coast of Brazil
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| Dec.11 |
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French jet hit trouble near crash site
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| Sep.12 |
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French unease at telecom suicides
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| Aug.2 |
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Scientists find new strain of HIV Researchers have discovered an HIV infection in a Cameroonian woman which is clearly linked to a gorilla strain
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| Jul.2 |
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Air France jet 'broke on impact' French investigators trying to find out why a plane crashed in the Atlantic say they believe it broke up on contact with water, not in the a...
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| Jun.30 |
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France 'banned Yemen crash plane' France's transport minister: A airline which crashed into the Indian Ocean was banned from France because of 'irregularities'
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| Jun.20 |
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Air France pays $24.5K to victims' families
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| Jun.19 |
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Air France bodies had broken bones
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| Jun.11 |
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Air France CEO disputes crash theory Pierre-Henri Gourgeon: There should be no assumed link between on-board speed sensors and the crash of Flight 447 into the Atlantic last wee...
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| Jun.6 |
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Missing plane sent 24 error messages Air France Flight 447 sent out automated error messages, including one saying the aircraft's autopilot had disengaged, before it vanished
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| Jun.3 |
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Plane's recorders may never be found French officials said they may never find the doomed jets' flight data recorders
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| Feb.1 |
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Warming 'very likely' human-made| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Climatic changes seen around the world are very likely to have a human cause. Eiffel Tower darkened to call attention to climate change. The report slight... | |
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| Sep.3 |
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Apartment fire near Paris kills 12
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| Aug.29 |
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Immigrants die in new fire A building was housing African immigrants in the central Marais area
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| Aug.25 |
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Apartment fire kills 16| A massive fire has swept through a 7-story building shortly after midnight | |
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| Apr.15 |
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Hotel fire toll tops 20
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| Apr.14 |
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Many killed in hotel fire 20 people have died and about 50 people have been injured in a fire in central Paris
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| May.24 |
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Paris may level airport terminal
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| May.23 |
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Deadly airport roof collapse At least 5 people were killed when a massive section of a vaulted ceiling collapsed at a new passenger terminal
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| Aug.18 |
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Heat crisis: French official quits
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| Aug.12 |
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Paris heat wave 'kills 100'
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| Jul.22 |
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Fire forces Eiffel Tower closure A fire has forced more than 3,000 people to be evacuated from the popular tourist landmark
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| Jan.5 |
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Concorde tanks burst 6 times
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| Jul.25 |
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Concorde crash kills 113  | Fuel tanks were ruptured by bursting tyres on 6 separate occasions before the fatal accident | |
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