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• European court makes ruling on DNA rights
The European court based in Strasbourg, France, disagreed, ordering British authorities to pay about $53,000 in legal fees. Its rulings are binding on all EU nations. "Sweeping up the innocent with the guilty does not help fight crime," said Anna ...
• France appeals for release of aid worker
PARIS - A French aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan this month was probably not the intended target of the captors, his colleagues in Paris said on Thursday. Dany Egreteau, 32, was captured by gunmen in Kabul on Nov. 3 as he drove to work with ...
• Sail online for thrills without danger
PARIS - Always wanted to sail around the globe but never had the nerve? Just sign up online and now you can compete in one of France's most beloved yachting events without ever having to leave your desk. By Wednesday, some 170,000 people were playing ...
• Buffett's Constellation bid challenged again
PARIS - France's state-controlled power company challenged a proposed takeover by Warren Buffett of Constellation Energy Wednesday, putting up almost as much money for half its nuclear business as the legendary investor had offered for the entire ...
• 7 feared dead in Airbus crash off French coast
PARIS - A minesweeper searched choppy seas Friday for the flight recorders of an Airbus A320 passenger plane that crashed off France's southern coast, killing two people and leaving five missing and feared dead, officials said. Rescuers had little ...