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/ 9 November 2005
British, French and German soldiers down their rifles and celebrate Christmas between their trenches in a moving French film due for release on Wednesday, two days before the anniversary of the 1918 Armistice. Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) covers a 24-hour festive truce made by three lieutenants who meet in no-man’s-land.
Twenty years after two of its secret agents blew up the Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand, France is still haunted by the bombing of the Greenpeace vessel. The sinking of the vessel in Auckland harbour on the night of July 10, 1985 still ranks as one of the biggest political and diplomatic scandals of the reign of the late president Francois Mitterrand.