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Europe to mark Waterloo bicentenary with call for unity European royals and officials will mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo with a call for reconciliation at the site where Napoleon Bonaparte's imperial ambitions ended in carnage.
18 June 2015
New Marie Curie film to shed light on women's struggles in science Filming is underway in Poland on a new biopic about the life of Marie Sklodowska-Curie, the first woman ever to win not one, but two, Nobel prizes.
18 June 2015
France's Hollande boosts ties with former foe Algeria French President Francois Hollande arrived in Algeria for a visit aimed at tackling the "common battle" of the once bitter foes against jihadists from Mali to Libya.
16 June 2015
France and Italy clash as migrant stand-off opens EU rift Italy and France engaged in a war of words as a standoff over hundreds of Africans offered a graphic illustration of Europe's migration crisis.
16 June 2015
Hate and extremism 'not Islam', says French PM French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stressed there was no link between extremism and Islam.
16 June 2015
Lenny Kravitz ponders past 'sacrifices' as he looks to new love Just turned 51, Lenny Kravitz is still looking like the rock sex symbol he's always been, and he's also expanding his artistic horizons as a photographer, an actor and a designer
12 June 2015
McCartney wows crowd at Stade de France gig A week before his 73rd birthday, Paul McCartney wowed concert-goers at the Stade de France, belting out a series of songs that were peppered with Beatles hits.
12 June 2015
Sergey Polikarpov, 56, wins the half marathon. Photo courtesy of omskzdes.ru 56-yo Kazakhstani wins Omsk half marathon for 6th time 56 y.o. Kostanay native Sergey Polikarpov has won the Spring Half Marathon in Omsk, Russia for the sixth time.
11 June 2015
Airbus says A400M to fly at Paris airshow Airbus said its A400M would take part in the flying display at the Paris airshow next week, just over a month after one of the planes fatally crashed in Spain.
10 June 2015
First Germanwings crash victims' bodies repatriated The first bodies from the Germanwings plane that was deliberately crashed in the French Alps were repatriated to Germany.
10 June 2015
France 'must continue to reform', says prime minister French Prime Minister Manuel Valls promised there would be "no let-up" in the government's reform agenda and reiterated a pledge to bring down stubbornly high unemployment.
07 June 2015
Berlin, Paris urge Brussels to rework EU asylum plan Germany and France urged the EU to find a fairer way to admit and distribute asylum seekers, as their leaders met the European Commission chief in Berlin.
02 June 2015
France's Le Pen hails Egypt's battle against 'extremism' French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday praised the fight against "extremism" launched by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
01 June 2015
Kerry cuts short Europe trip after breaking leg in bike crash US Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in a cycling accident in France and will fly back to the United States for treatment, cutting short a European trip.
01 June 2015
Paris to break hearts with removal of a million 'love locks' Too much love can be a bad thing: Paris city officials, exasperated with lovers sealing their passion by clipping padlocks all over the city, are set to remove 45 tonnes of the locks next week.
30 May 2015
Yuliya Putintseva. Photo courtesy of tennisforum.com Kazakhstani tennis player Putintseva defeats Germany's No 1 at Nürnberger Versicherungscup Kazakhstani tennis player Yuliya Putintseva has lost to Karin Knapp in the quarterfinals of the Nürnberger Versicherungscup taking place in German.
29 May 2015
France says Britain EU referendum 'very risky' French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said a British referendum on whether to leave the EU was "very risky", ahead of a visit by Prime Minister David Cameron to Paris.
28 May 2015
Probe after Air France plane narrowly misses mountain French accident investigators have opened an inquiry into a near accident involving an Air France Boeing 777 which narrowly missed central Africa's highest mountain with 37 people on board.
27 May 2015
Tengrinews file photo Koktobe cableway opening postponed The opening of a new gondola cableway to Almaty's Koktobe has been postponed.
25 May 2015
French immigration thriller bags Cannes Palme d'Or A French thriller spotlighting the plight of traumatised refugees building new lives, "Dheepan", captured the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or top prize.
25 May 2015

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