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At least five people are dead after a private jet crashed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport also claiming the life of French oil company Total's CEO Christophe de Margerie.

The plane collided with a snow-clearing machine as it was taking off, leaving the driver, three crew members and a passenger, who was De Margerie, dead, the BBC quotes the airport's spokesperson Elena Krylova as saying.

I have selected art censorship cases from the past three years for you. I selected them because if I had tried to list them all, the whole page of this newspaper would not be adequate.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced he will present Romania's steps to promote youth employment at a high-level conference on this topic hosted in Milan by the Italian presidency of the European Council on Wednesday.

As quintessentially Parisian as the Eiffel Tower or the Sacre Coeur, the Moulin Rouge cabaret on Monday celebrates its 125th anniversary and it's in very good shape considering its age.

French jets carried out their first air strike against Islamic State militants in Iraq Friday, successfully destroying their target, President Francois Hollande announced, vowing that more operations would follow.

PARIS - The residence of the Serbian ambassador in Paris - one of the most beautiful buildings from the Belle Epoque period - will open its doors to the public on September 20-21 from 12:00 to 18:00 to mark the European Heritage Days.

Checks on 141 of the 2,055 names included on the so-called Lagarde list of depositors have been completed and at least another 50 are currently under investigation, Kathimerini has learned.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde announced on Aug. 27 she had been charged for "negligence" over a multi-million-euro corruption case relating to her time as French finance minister in 2008.
      
In exclusive comments to AFP, she said she had no intention of resigning over the charges. "I return back to Washington where I will indeed brief my board," she added.
      

Chamber of Deputies Chairman Valeriu Zgonea on Tuesday announced an extraordinary session of this legislative body early in July.

"Friendship with French forged in heroism"

BELGRADE -- "The friendship between the Serbs and the French, forged in the heroism of World War I, has gone through various temptations," says Tomislav Nikolić.