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2 hrs ago | Channelnewsasia.com

Million doses of fake aspirin from China seized in France

French customs officers have seized 1.2 million doses of counterfeit aspirin from China, the biggest haul of fake medicines ever in France and the EU.

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2 hrs ago | Hollywood Reporter

Cannes: Director's Hollywood Reporter Interview Creates 'Prostitution' Backlash in France

French filmmaker Francois Ozon has been blasted by local politicians for telling THR, "it's a fantasy of many women to do prostitution" and "there is kind of a passivity that women are looking for." Instead, it turns out it's an imperative of many French women to condemn exactly that kind of statement.

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3 hrs ago | 680News

Roman Polanski laments levelling of sexes as a idiotica at Cannes Film Festival

CANNES, France - Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women and that the levelling of the sexes is "idiotic" The director made the comments Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, where he came to premiere "Venus in Fur," a film adapted from the David Ives play which stars Polanski's wife and toys with the ... (more)

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7 hrs ago | Women's Wear Daily

Iris van Herpen Exhibit Comes to France

CREATIVE LICENCE: After bursting onto the haute couture scene with sculptural dresses incorporating the latest technologies, Iris van Herpen takes center stage in a new exhibition at the International City of Lace and Fashion museum in Calais, France.

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12 hrs ago | WHBF-TV Rock Island

A list of previous Palme d'Or winners at Cannes

A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the... A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark ... (more)

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16 hrs ago | The Guardian

The hottest French It girl of 2013: Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Her mother is the former editor of French Vogue, she was photographed by Mario Testino at 10, and her new baby blog rivals Gwyneth'sa Julia Restoin Roitfeld is 2013's ultimate It girl Julia Restoin Roitfeld with her mother, Carine Roitfeld: 'French women look put-together but we don't spend that much time in the bathroom, and tend to go for really ... (more)

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20 hrs ago | On Top Magazine

Anti-Gay Marriage Group French Spring Facing Possibility Of Being Banned

Anti-gay marriage group the French Spring is facing the possibility of being banned amid claims it's comments amount to a call to violence.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Wedding, Europe, World News, Francois Hollande

Fri May 24, 2013

Brandon Sun

At the Cannes Film Festival: Liberace's poodle named top dog

Canine glamour was honoured Friday in Cannes, with pampered poodle Baby Boy from Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic "Behind the Candelabra" winning the film festival's unofficial Palm Dog prize.

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Mid-Day Mumbai

Any Body Cannes France

I consider myself a cineaste . Once, when I was in college, I watched a film that was not in English or Hindi.

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Brandon Sun

Bruce Dern a leading man again in Alexander Payne's Cannes entry 'Nebraska'

CANNES, France - For the aging, gruff patriarch of his father-son road trip "Nebraska," Alexander Payne tried to lure Gene Hackman out of retirement and considered the likes of Robert Duvall and Jack Nicholson.

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Star Phoenix

Fight breaks out during drug sale, two teens charged

On Tuesday, besieged with questions about The Great Senate Scandal, Stephen Harper didn't answer the questions that Canadians wanted answered.

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Related Topix: Drugs, North America, Canada, World News, Movies, Entertainment, Seaside Heights, NJ

Chambersburg Public Opinion

Steely Cotillard shines in 'The Immigrant'

CANNES, France - Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse offering, "The Immigrant." The gritty drama, which premieres Friday at the Cannes Film Festival and is competing for the Palme d'Or, was filmed in part on ... (more)

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CBS Atlanta

At Cannes' movie palace, talk of TV's rise

As jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the... The jury foreman in Jodi Arias' murder trial says the 18 days she spent on the witness stand didn't do her any good.

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Mirror.co.uk

My husband murdered our two sons eleven years ago but I'm finally rebuilding my life

He drove them to a secluded spot and stabbed them to death. Earlier Denise had told the wife-beater she was leaving him The anguish of Stephanie Stevenson is unimaginable.

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Thu May 23, 2013

Channelnewsasia.com

IMF chief grilled in Paris court over 2007 payout scandal

IMF chief Christine Lagarde faces another day of questioning after being grilled for hours Thursday by French prosecutors who are deciding if she should be charged over a state payout to a disgraced tycoon during her time as finance minister.

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WOZZ-FM Appleton

Cannes auction of space trip with DiCaprio raises ...

A trip to space with Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio raised 1.2 million euros for charity at a glitzy fundraiser at the Cannes film festival on Thursday.

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Reuters

Cannes film festival hit by second jewelry theft

The Cannes film festival was hit by a second jewelry heist on Thursday after a diamond necklace worth 2 million euros disappeared during a star-studded party, according to upmarket jeweler De Grisogono.

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WMTW-TV Auburn

Cash Money boss 'excited' about signing Paris

The heiress and reality star has signed with Cash Money Records, which is home to hitmakers Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj and Drake.

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The Guardian

French singer-songwriter Georges Moustaki dies following illness

Georges Moustaki was introduced to Edith Piaf in the late 1950s and started to write songs for the Parisian star.

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WTEN-TV Albany

Sorrentino serves up a cinema banquet at Cannes

CANNES, France - Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food - appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty." The Italian auteur's Cannes Film Festival entry is a journey through Rome in the company of observant but aimless writer Jep Gambardella .

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