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Alberni Valley News
November 9, 2017
Vimy Ridge, the most prominent feature in the Nord-Pas-De-Calais region of Arras, France, was critical to a Great War victory. The Battle of ...
Franceinfo
November 8, 2017
Les uns l'adorent. Les autres le jalousent. Certains souhaitent le grignotter. Et vous comment l'aimez-vous? Le sarasin, le saxon, le " koller ", le ...
Straight.com
November 8, 2017
... weekend you find yourself driving out to Nord-Pas-de-Calais to tour Vimy Ridge, the site of one of the First World War's most decisive battles.
Telecompaper
November 7, 2017
Bouygues subsidiary Axione announced that the Nord-Pas-de-Calais public-initiative network project ('THD 59-62') has delivered the first ...
Times of Malta
February 24, 2017
We have provided finance for the Nord Pas-de Calais region to support its move to a low-carbon economy. We have helped Polish steel wholesalers to introduce new services and create new jobs.
OCCRP
February 23, 2017
ABB robot in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (Photo: Peter Potrowl, CC BY 2.5)Oh Myeong-se, who went missing on Feb. 7, "is suspected of forging documents and colluding with third parties to steal from the company," Zurich-based ABB said in a statement,ÃÂ ...
The Local France
February 23, 2017
The departments are Nord, Pas-de-Calais, and Somme. Orange is the second highest of the agency's weather warning system, urging the public to "be vigilant".
Pembroke Daily Observer
February 23, 2017
The Battle of Vimy Ridge, which took place in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of northeastern France, opened on April 2, 1917 when the Canadian Corps' artillery units, including eight field brigades and two heavy artillery groups, initiated the largest ...
4barsrest.com
February 19, 2017
Formerly known as Brass Band Nord-Pas-de-Calais, they recently took on a new identity following government re-organisation which saw the merger of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy regions. Under the direction of Belgian conductor Luc Vertommen,ÃÂ ...
Express.co.uk
February 17, 2017
As well as serious crime in at least 16 northern Paris suburbs, the confrontations have spread to Nantes in Brittany, Lille - the capital of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, and Rouen in Normandy where catholic priest Father Jacques Hamel was murdered ...
4barsrest.com
February 15, 2017
The Championship 'Honneur' Division will therefore be a straight fight between previous champions Aeolus Brass Band (winners in 2004, 05, 06 and 07) and the recently re-named Brass Band Hauts de France (formerly Brass Band Nord Pas de Calais) whoÃÂ ...
euronews
February 14, 2017
European commissioner for regional affairs explains how a large chunk of the EU budget that is used for grant funding in EU member states can be used withÃÂ ...
New Europe
February 10, 2017
Leader of the French far-right political party, Front National (National Front), Marine Le Pen (L), and candidate for the Northern Nord-Pas-de-Calais Picardie region embraces Marion Marechal-Le Pen, candidate for the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA)ÃÂ ...
The Standard
February 4, 2017
Born in Lillie in Nord Pas de Calais region in Northern France, she is the second French woman to win the Miss Universe title since Christiane Martel in 1953, ending the 63-year drought for France.
The Connexion
January 30, 2017
Iris Mittenaere, a 24-year-old dental student from Lille, Nord-Pas de Calais, picked up the beauty pageant prize at a televised gala in Manila, Philippines.
New Europe
January 29, 2017
Switzerland's Von Bartha S-chanf gallery will host Hospital Equipment, a new exhibition from the Danish collective SUPERFLEX, from February 17 to March 18.
Express.co.uk
January 21, 2017
Mr Caublot explained the efforts of their allies during the war have not been forgotten and added: "We received the help of the Scots, the French from the Nord Pas-de-Calais, the Bretons who were replaces by Scots at Authuille and Belgians because theÃÂ ...
PJ Media
December 28, 2016
Workers trying to extinguish a tent burning at a makeshift migrant camp known as "the jungle" near Calais, northern France, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016.
The Sun
December 27, 2016
REFUGEES hoping to travel to the UK have returned to live in "secret" camps in Calais. Just weeks after the demolition of the Calais Jungle, there are at least six informal settlements in parts of the Nord-pas-de-Calais region with numbers steadily rising.
Newstalk 106-108 fm
December 19, 2016
Reports say that the empty cup was found on Tardinghen Beach, Nord-Pas-de-Calais in France. According to the French newspaper La Voix du Nord, the nature lover was walking on the beach with his dog, and that he usually brings a bag with him to collectÃÂ ...
ITCM
December 16, 2016
The Saint Omer Golf Club is set on a gently sloping hillside just outside the little satellite town of Lumbres, with panoramic views across the rural Nord/Pas de Calais countryside and the quaintly named River Aa. Click to enlarge image legolf ...
Sudbury.com
November 11, 2016
The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a military engagement fought primarily as part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were the Canadian Corps, of four divisions, against three ...
University of Wisconsin-Madison
November 9, 2016
... more than a week before the D-Day invasion - 1st Lt. Frank Fazekas was at the controls of his P-47 Thunderbolt when it fell from formation over northern France, spiraling into a farm field near a village called Buysscheure in the Nord Pas-de ...
Cochrane Eagle
November 9, 2016
One specific stop the expedition will be making is at Vimy Ridge in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. The Battle of Vimy Ridge took place from April 9 to 12, 1917, during the First World War when the Canadian Corps overtook the German Sixth Army.
CNN
November 2, 2016
Authorities from the Nord Pas de Calais region said the children would be spread out among 60 processing centers, where officials from the UK Home Office will assess their situation and decide whether they should be settled in Britain.
The Local France
October 25, 2016
This is a comedy caper about a dissatisfied postman forced into exile to the much-maligned "sticks" of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, with its supposedly backwards locals, the "Ch'tis." It holds the record for highest box office take in French history ...
The Guardian
October 25, 2016
Sarkozy has said he will be in the UK the day after he is elected to demand the treaty is rewritten. It is likely that Xavier Bertrand, president of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region and one of the few French politicians focused on a long-term ...
The Connexion
October 24, 2016
FOR the third year in a row, the Smart Fortwo city car has been revealed as the most stolen car in France - with one in eight owners having their cars stolen.
Aljazeera.com
October 10, 2016
The Jungle in Calais is one of several camps dotted across the northern Nord-Pas-de-Calais region. The camps often lack basic necessities such as safe generators for electricity, adequate sewage systems, and running water.
The Guardian
September 26, 2016
Things things get completely compelling on-site in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, as David O'Keefe and Wayne Abbott discover human stories in the region's ordnance-littered "deep fighting system".
Deutsche Welle
September 26, 2016
Calais and the wider region Nord-Pas-de-Calais remains a densely-populated and somewhat run-down area with industrial difficulties, what's changing are people's voting habits.
Express.co.uk
September 22, 2016
France's interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he strongly condemned the incident, which took place in Nieppe, a town on the Franco-Belgian in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region. Mr Cazeneuve was so "unhappy" about what happened he calledÃÂ ...
International Business Times UK
August 12, 2016
... remain in very difficult conditions to hope to join their families in England." Xavier Bertrand, head of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region has said that security concerns meant there should be a curfew stopping migrants from leaving the ...
Screen International
June 27, 2016
Paris-based Les Films du Losange has unveiled pre-sales on Michael Haneke's next film Happy End as the first day of shooting begins in the northern French region of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais today. Few details on the production have been revealed publiclyÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
April 13, 2016
Most stunningly, it is almost entirely free of branding. The main race sponsor of Paris-Roubaix is the local region itself - Nord-Pas-de-Calais - and thus the only thing being flogged is the verdant French countryside. For better and for worse, it is ...
The Register
April 4, 2016
According to this report, the pair at an SFR shop in Villeneuve d'Ascq, in the country's Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, began the video by explaining that the phone was in for repair and the owner had been "breaking our balls".
The Connexion
March 3, 2016
THE SNCF is to compensate travellers in regions that have lost train services as a result of the company not employing enough drivers.
Francetv info
January 29, 2016
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The American Prospect
December 30, 2015
One moderate Republican, Xavier Bertrand, who won the regional presidency in Nord-Pas de Calais, acknowledged that the campaign had "changed his vision of politics," while Christian Estrosi, a longtime backer of Sarkozy who won another regionalÃÂ ...
Aleteia EN
December 30, 2015
... Muslims respect other religions and a strong gesture that honors all Muslims shows that they are alongside our fellow citizens" after the attacks in Paris, said Abdelkader Aoussedj, president of the Federation of Muslim Associations of Nord-Pas-de ...
RT
December 10, 2015
Popular support for France's hardline anti-immigration National Front skyrocketed during Sunday's regional elections to the Nord Pas-de-Calais Piciadie regional council, and Calais' city council. The party scored over 40 percent of the vote in the ...
Yahoo News
December 6, 2015
FN leader Marine Le Pen was on course to win control of the economically depressed northern region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, once a bastion of the left.
