Wellington  - Shipmates on two Navy frigates sent by the New Zealand government to France's atmospheric nuclear testing site in the South Pacific - possibly the first state-sponsored Ban the Bomb p

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Paris - A strike by unions representing teachers, secondary school students and public sector workers is expected to shut French schools and greatly reduce other public services Thursday.

Paris  - The French economy grew by 2.2 per cent in 2007, the government's statistical office INSEE announced on Thursday, revising upward its original estimation of 1.9 per cent.

French cement company, Lafarge has bought Larsen & Toubro’s (L&T's) ready-mix concrete (R