• Benjamin Stora, perhaps France's leading historian of Algeria, refuses to jump to conclusions: modern Algeria, with 60% of the population under the age of 30 and with most people living in the cities, not the countryside, is a far cry from the Algeria which broke free from France two generations ago.

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  • Adam earned a free trip to France, courtesy of the watchmaker, by winning a national clay-court tournament last month in Delray Beach.

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  • Caviar produced in the Sologne, a rural, pollution-free region of central France, has found fans among French chefs.

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  • As Mr Begley notes, Dreyfus's wife, Lucie, changed her name and fled Vichy France for the free zone in the south.

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  • Polanski remained free, mostly living in France, before his arrest in Switzerland.

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  • Similarly, a strong vote for Mr Madelin might encourage a President Chirac to add a dash of free-market liberalism to France's economic recipe.

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  • ISPs already offer free service in parts of France, such as Groupe Serveur or World Online, Kingfisher has the advantage that Dixons had of access to a trusted distribution network in its Darty chain of household-goods stores, which will give out free starter discs to its numerous customers.

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  • He wants to free up labor markets, calls France's 35-hour work week absurd and plans tougher measures on crime and immigration.

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  • According to military records, Joyeuse worked for the OSS but was officially a member of the Free French Forces, enlisting after France's surrender to Germany in 1940.

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  • With the election of Nicholas Sarkozy as president of France on Sunday, free markets seemingly triumphed over socialism and raised hopes of reviving an economy that has languished for years.

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  • Just try offering a 40% discount on a suit in Belgium, or giving away a free dictionary with an Encyclopedia in France or Austria, and Europe's trading limitations soon become apparent.

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  • But France is not where global free agents go to build tomorrow's dynamic companies.

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  • The British deal on Lady Ashton meant that centre-right governments, led by France and Germany, were free to impose their favoured candidate, Mr Van Rompuy.

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  • If Slovakia remains on its reform path, it could become the domino that pushes the rest of the EU, particularly "Old Europe" nations Germany and France, toward a more free-enterprise, entrepreneurial era.

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  • That Haifa shall be a free port as regards the trade of France, her dominions and protectorates, and there shall be no discrimination in port charges or facilities as regards French shipping and French goods.

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  • Working from his parents' home in northern France, he snared victims with free downloads designed to look like original applications, they say.

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  • Key officials in the ECB, Germany and France have all insisted Cyprus is free to decide how to raise the 5.8bn euros, but that the money must be forthcoming.

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  • Orange, the mobile brand of France Telecom, launched a global free calling and texting application on Thursday, in direct competition with services such as Skype, WhatsApp and Viber.

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  • Councillor Paul Watkins, Conservative leader of Dover District Council, said despite the loss of duty free many people still made the journey to France to take advantage of the pound against the Euro.

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  • Free-spending fans are preparing to flock to France, which is already the world's most popular tourist destination.

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  • But Italy had already issued national residence permits to the migrants, perhaps hoping they would exploit the passport-free Schengen area to slip across to countries like France, where many Tunisians have family.

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  • If the worst outcome a poor Roma from eastern Europe faces on coming to France is a lump sum and a free ticket home, it may just make that initial trip all the more attractive.

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  • But there is a basic clash between those like Blair, summit host Jose Maria Aznar of Spain and Silvio Berlusconi of Italy -- who want to free up labour markets -- and those like France and Belgium. who retain enthusiasm for the "European Social Model" with a heavy emphasis on workers' rights.

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  • Meanwhile, in France, women are toughing it out with free all-day childcare, per-child tax benefits and allowances, four-month paid maternity leaves and a state-paid personal trainer to get back in shape after childbirth.

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  • On Jan. 3, Free, one of the major providers of Internet services in France, decided to block ads over the Internet for its 5 million subscribers.

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  • The 20-year-old Agnel, just a day after swimming an amazing anchor leg in leading France to victory in the men's 4x100 meter free style relay, routed the field in the 200-meter freestyle.

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  • In a ruling Tuesday, the Paris court upheld an unfair competition complaint lodged by Bottin Cartographes against Google France and its parent company Google Inc. for providing free web mapping services to some businesses.

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  • Feature photography: Javier Manzano, a free-lance photographer, for his extraordinary picture distributed by Agence France-Presse of two Syrian rebel soldiers tensely guarding their position as beams of light stream through bullet holes in a nearby metal wall.

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  • The new taxes would help fund France's two public television channels, which would be free of advertising.

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  • France took the lead just before half-time with a free-kick from Henri Saivet, but Nour Hadhria gave the Carthage Eaglets the equaliser four minutes after the break with a stunning 25-metre drive.

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