Three bodies were found on a small boat near Dunkirk on Thursday morning. A fourth man died when another boat sank off Hardelot the evening before. A one year old was among those rescued.
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Parliament passed a blanket ban, the first in the European Union. Left-wing deputies have referred it, arguing that protecting minors this way removes a means of expression from them.
The target range stayed at 3.5 to 3.75 percent. Three regional presidents wanted a quarter point rise, the first time in a decade that three have broken the same way.
The screaming, the sitting up, the racing heart: all of it happens in deep sleep, driven by systems that have woken while the parts that would recognise the room have not.
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Rafale final assembly, solid rocket motor production and a plant making propulsion components for the M51 missile all sit in the threatened zone. Sensitive equipment is being moved by road.
Seveso plants are regulated against the accidents they might cause. The fire burning through the Gironde is testing them against a hazard arriving from outside the fence.
The 2,500 year old gold collar was taken from a museum in Burgundy in the middle of a Friday morning. Prosecutors are treating it as organised crime, and the government has announced a national security plan for museums.
A new subsidiary would hold the commercial rights and outside investors would take 20 percent. Member associations have until 19 September and up to 40 million dollars each to think about it.
Damascus and Baghdad have agreed to rebuild a pipeline closed since 2003. The more telling number is the fuel oil already crossing Syria by road to the Mediterranean.
A decree signed on 22 July lets private companies into petrol distribution, medicines, ports and power generation from 4 August. These were the sectors the state kept longest.
Seveso plants are regulated against the accidents they might cause. The fire burning through the Gironde is testing them against a hazard arriving from outside the fence.
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