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.The French navy has captured 35 suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia in what French officials are hailing as the most successful mission since the European Union began monitoring the seas in 2008.
Four mother ships and six smaller boats have been seized over three days. .
The EU’s mission has focused on the Gulf of Aden – one of the world’s busiest shipping routes.

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Jurisdiction over the suspects remains unclear, and there have been renewed calls for an international tribunal to be set up

.Al Qaeda’s North African wing has released French hostage Pierre Camatte after Mali freed four Islamist prisoners in response to an Al Qaeda threat to kill him.
“We confirm the liberation of Pierre Camatte,” Malian presidency spokesperson Seydou Cissouma told state radio.
Mali freed four Islamist prisoners last week after Al Qaeda threatened to kill Mr Camatte unless they were released.
He said Mr Camatte, kidnapped in Mali in November, was in the hands of Malian authorities.
Algerian media said two of the freed men were Algerian.
Their release prompted Algeria to recall its ambassador to Mali earlier on Tuesday in protest.
He said he had thanked Malian president Amadou Toumani Toure for his handling of the crisis and pledged French support in the struggle against terrorism. .
The group has waged a campaign of suicide bombings and ambushes in Algeria, but in the past few years has shifted a large part of its activities south to the Sahara desert.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has also claimed responsibility for the abduction of three Spaniards and an Italian couple.
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.Two burqa-wearing robbers have held up a French post office using a handgun concealed beneath an Islamic-style full veil, court officials said.
Officials said postal office staff let the pair through the security double doors of the banking branch near Paris, believing them to be veil-wearing Muslim women.
Once inside, the pair flipped back their head coverings and pulled out a gun.
Police have opened an investigation.
They made off with 4,500 euros ($7,100) seized from the staff and customers of the branch in Athis Mons, just south of Paris, according to the online edition of Le Parisien newspaper.
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s right-wing party has already presented a bill to make it illegal for anyone to cover their faces in public on security grounds.
France is seeking to restrict use of the head-to-toe Islamic veil on the grounds it is incompatible with French values, after a parliament report called for a ban in schools, hospitals, government offices and public transport. .
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According to the interior ministry, only around 1,900 women wear the burqa in France, which is home to Europe’s biggest Muslim minority

.The Black Eyed Peas were mistakenly declared best international group at France’s top music awards.
Choreographer Kamel Ouali presented the US band with the prize at the NRJ Awards in Cannes on Saturday. .
Last year Katy Perry was mistakenly given the trophy for best international song when it should have gone to Rihanna.
The prize was then given to the real winners, German band Tokio Hotel.
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.French climber Alain Robert, known as Spiderman for his death-defying antics, has set his sights on scaling Dubai’s Burj Khalifa tower, a report said.
The Gulf emirate of Dubai opened the glistening 828 metre concrete, glass and steel skyscraper on January 4 this year.
“I’ll have to do it …
“I know the people of Dubai, they are interested [in seeing me climb the skyscraper]. maybe between January and April 2011,” Mr Robert was quoted as saying by Malaysia’s official Bernama news agency.”
The tower, the tallest in the world, was named in honour of the Abu Dhabi leader whose billions of dollars bailed out Dubai from its financial crisis last year.
He has climbed skyscrapers including the Empire State Building, the Sears Tower and Taipei 101, according to his website.
Mr Robert, 47, was in Malaysia to receive an award for his extraordinary feats in scaling tall buildings.
“The problem in Dubai is the hot weather [of] up to 40 degrees Celsius,” he said.
He admitted that climbing the Dubai tower will be a tough mission because of the Middle Eastern heat. For me, climbing is as important as eating and breathing.
“My biggest fear is to waste my time on Earth. Climbing skyscrapers is my lifetime love and passion. .
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.A French court found the niece of a British minister guilty of murder and has sentenced her to 15 years in jail for the alcohol-fuelled slaying of a young Frenchman she had befriended in a bar.
Jessica Davies, 30, was also ordered to pay 105,000 euros ($165,452) in damages to the family of the dead man.
Davies told the court close to Paris that she had knifed Olivier Mugnier, 24, to death in November 2007, but said her recollection of the multiple stabbings had vanished “into a black hole”. Her uncle is Quentin Davies, the British minister for defence equipment and support.
Davies, a former model, was born in London and has a French mother and British father. Later that night she phoned the emergency services and when police arrived they found her cradling the young man’s naked body.
Davies met Mr Mugnier by chance in an Irish bar on the outskirts of Paris and took him back to her flat.
French media said she told police: “I am a monster…”
It emerged that she had been drinking heavily and had also taken a large quantity of medicines prescribed to treat her depression. I wanted to cut him a bit and [the knife] went right in.
The court heard that Davies had been traumatised by the separation of her parents during her adolescence and had once tried to commit suicide, using the same knife she later turned on Mr Mugnier. .
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.Eurostar passenger train services linking Britain to continental Europe will be suspended for a third day on Monday, the company said, after a series of trains broke down due to the freezing weather.
Eurostar says it will not restart services until the source of the breakdowns – which left at least five trains stranded in the tunnel between England and France – has been identified and fixed.
Eurostar is offering passengers replacement tickets and compensation after 2,000 people spent hours trapped in the tunnel with limited food, water or fresh air. .
Eurostar’s commercial director Nick Mercer said test trains had been running on Sunday with engineers trying to work out what was making them break down.
An investigation is underway into employees’ handling of the crisis after many complaints from passengers they did not appear to know what to do.
Mercer said screens and shields meant to stop snow getting into the electrics had failed and needed to be improved.
They had made modifications to the trains, which will be tested on Monday to ensure they are effective, he said. The engineers believe they’ve found the cause,” he told BBC television.
“The test trains did run satisfactorily.
The big temperature change between the open air and the warm tunnels has also been blamed for the breakdowns.
The weather conditions in northern France “caused snow to be ingested into the trains in a way that’s never happened before,” he said.