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Vivendi boss Jean-Bernard Levy steps down after board dispute

Shares in Vivendi – whose assets include telecoms business SFR and Universal Music – hit a nine-year low this year.

Air France to shed 5,000 jobs by end of 2013

The restructuring will see the departure of just under 10 percent of Air France’s total workforce of 53,000, and forms part of a major three-year cost-saving plan launched by the French-Dutch Air France-KLM group in January 2012.

Pakistan arrests French national over Al Qaeda, 9/11 links

Naamen Meziche, believed to be connected to top Al Qaeda leader Younis al-Mauritania and a member of the Hamburg, Germany terrorist cell suspected of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks, was arrested by security forces near Pakistan’s border with Iran.

French architect arrested in Cambodia over Bo Xilai scandal

Phnom Penh police chief Touch Naruth said Devillers had been detained “about two weeks ago… with the cooperation of China.”

Freed French journalist Romeo Langlois leaves Colombia for Paris

Langlois was abducted in April during a rebel attack on a Colombian army unit he was accompanying in order to film a documentary on the destruction of narcotics laboratories in the Caqueta region.

French journalist Romeo Langlois freed by FARC rebels in Colombia

Romeo Langlois walked through a crowd of villagers with FARC rebels before giving a short news conference, telling reporters that he was fine and had been treated well whilst in captivity.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn files $1M countersuit against New York hotel maid

Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s countersuit was lodged on Monday, a year after sexual harassment charges were first leveled against him, and accuses New York hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo of “knowingly and intentionally making a false report to law enforcement authorities,”

Paris firefighters arrested after new recruit 'raped' in initiation ceremony

The young man told police he was set upon in a bus carrying 30 Paris firefighters back from a gymnastics competition in the city of Colmar, and was then stripped, slapped and bitten.

French CERN scientist jailed for plotting terror attacks

Adlene Hicheur’s lawyers claim he was simply expressing strong views online, and never actually said he would carry out a terrorist attack. 

Sarkozy to sue website over Gaddafi funding claim

On Saturday the investigative journalism website Mediapart published a 2006 document signed by former Libyan intelligence chief Moussa Koussa offering to put up nearly $66 million worth of funding for Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign.
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