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Major news items in leading French newspapers

Xinhua, April 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

The following are the major news items in leading French newspapers on Thursday.

LES ECHOS

-- Household consumption in France fell 0.6 percent in March due to the decline in energy purchases. But throughout the first quarter, it was up 1.6 percent, according to Insee, French National Institute for Statistic and Economics Studies.

LE MONDE

-- Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who welcomed the return of 206 French from Nepal in Rossy airport, said the French authorities are still without news of "more than 200" French citizens.

LE FIGARO

-- A UN report accuses international troops, especially the French soldiers, of having committed sexual abuses on children in the Central African Republic. The French Ministry of Defence has opened an internal investigation. Endit