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‘A STAB IN THE BACK’: French ambassador to Australia RECALLED over submarine saga

Scott Morrison’s decision to drop French-designed submarines in favour of the new AUKUS agreement has prompted immediate action.

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France says it has decided to recall its ambassadors in Australia and the United States for consultations after officials in Canberra struck a deal with the US and the UK which ended a deal to purchase French-designed submarines.

‘NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS’: Investigator’s harrowing account of Paris terror attack

For the first time ever, audio has been released from inside the Bataclan concert hall during a massacre that left 130 people dead and hundreds injured.

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A policeman has struggled for words when describing the scene that forensic investigators discovered in the Bataclan after attacks in 2015.

‘A stab in the back’: Feeling betrayed over ‘AUKUS’ sub pact, France cancels big party

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Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom have announced a new strategic defence partnership - known as AUKUS - to build a class of nuclear-propelled submarines and work together in the Indo-Pacific region.

Key defendant in Paris terror attack trial says 130 deaths were ‘nothing personal’

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Ninety people were killed at the Bataclan on November 13, 2015, when Islamic extremists invaded the music hall.

Former international footballer dies after 39 YEARS in a coma following botched operation

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France international Jean-Pierre Adams was kept alive by his wife Bernadette.

WARNING FROM PARIS: Australia faces a ‘reckoning’ as France learns to ‘live with COVID’

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Living with COVID in France means tolerating daily case numbers that would make some Australians gasp.