Hostages Freed
PAR2000082904 -29 AUGUST 2000 - PARIS, FRANCE: Sonia Wendling, left, next to her sister Christell, arrive at Charles de Gaulle airport. She is one of several French hostages held on the island of Jolo, and freed thanks to intervention by Libya's general Kadhafi. mc/xl/Xavier Lhospice UPI
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Air France-KLM said it had no plans to cut employees or reduce assets at Italian airline Alitalia in order to raise fresh capital.
Police said they have arrested six men who allegedly stole blocks of gold worth $2.16 million from an Air France plane in Paris.
A record seizure of 1.3 tons of pure cocaine aboard an Air France airliner raises questions about possible complicity of French airport workers, police say.
An intermediate refit of the French Navy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle has been completed by shipbuilder DCNS.
Police said they charged 17 baggage handlers at the Charles De Gaulle airport near Paris with stealing more than $230,000 worth of valuables from suitcases.
It is starting to look as though France might be the country to watch this fall as the next phase of the European crisis unfolds.
A strike by French air traffic controllers that resulted in thousands of flight cancellations is set to end Thursday, officials said.
Railway workers are set to go on a one-day strike in France Thursday, halting some high-speed trains, union officials said.
A French shipping company launched the world's biggest container ship Tuesday in a ceremony attended by President Francois Hollande.
A French village buried a Cameroonian man who was found dead in the landing gear of an airplane that landed at a local airport, officials said.
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