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New Delhi, Oct 21 (PTI) Pakistan has been taken off from the grey list of the FATF, the global watchdog on terror financing and money laundering, four years after the country was put in the infamous categorisation.

Significantly, for the first time, the FATF put Myanmar in the "high risk jurisdictions subject to a call for action", often referred to as the watchdog's black list.

22 October 2022; MEMO: "Tears of the Seine", an animated short film, has received attention in France and globally, Anadolu News Agency reports.

The film was awarded a bronze medal on Thursday at the Student Oscars in Los Angeles.

It sheds light on the bloody police crackdown on the demonstration by Algerians in Paris on 17 October, 1961, in which hundreds of people were killed on the directives of Maurice Papon, then-in charge of the Paris police.

20 October 2022; MEMO: French President, Emmanuel Macron, has toured the Grand Mosque of Paris yesterday to mark 100 years of its founding.

Macron was greeted by the Mosque's rector, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, before inspecting an exhibition about the mosque's history. Hafiz was awarded with the insignia of the Legion of Honour by Macron, France's highest civilian honour.

PARIS/BRUSSELS, Oct 19 (Reuters) - European Union governments will agree to impose new sanctions on Iranian generals and entities over the use of Iranian-made drones in Russian strikes on Ukraine, four diplomats and a French official said on Wednesday.

Ukraine has reported a spate of Russian attacks using Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones in recent weeks. Iran denies supplying drones to Russia, while the Kremlin has not commented.

18 October 2022; MEMO: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that the killing of dozens of Algerian demonstrators in Paris in 1961 was "unjustified" and that his country "will not forget the victims." Macron made his comment on Twitter on the 61st anniversary of the massacre.

17 October 2022; MEMO: Algeria's National Liberation Front demanded yesterday that France should apologise for the massacre committed by French police against peaceful Algerian protesters in Paris in 1961, Anadolu has reported. Thousands of Algerians living in France took to the streets of Paris sixty-one years ago today to protest against a curfew imposed on them. The then French Police Commander in Paris, Maurice Papon, issued orders to suppress the protest with violence.

PARIS, Oct 14 (Reuters) - European foreign ministers will on Monday discuss the transfer of Iranian drones to Russia and could come to a political agreement on future sanctions related to such activity, two diplomats said on Friday.

Ukraine has reported a spate of Russian attacks using Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones in recent weeks. Iran denies supplying the drones to Russia, while the Kremlin has not commented.

PARIS, October 13. /TASS/: Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Thursday adopted a resolution on the conflict in Ukraine where they accused Russia of "terrorism," according to a statement on the council’s website.

Of the 612 members of the council, just 100 were in attendance, and 99 of them voted for the inclusion of an amendment that calls Russia a "terrorist regime." One member abstained.

Statements by PACE, which is an advisory organization, are not binding.

PARIS, Oct 13 (Reuters) - France's foreign ministry said on Thursday that any transfer of Iranian drones to Russia would be a violation of the United Nations Security Council resolution that endorsed the 2015 nuclear accord between Iran and world powers.

Three drones operated by Russian forces attacked the small town of Makariv, west of Ukraine's capital, early on Thursday, with officials saying that critical infrastructure facilities were struck by what they said were Iranian-made suicide drones.

PARIS (AP) — The French government on Wednesday started the process of requisitioning workers at petrol depots of ExxonMobil’s French branch Esso in an attempt to ensure that service stations around the country are supplied with badly needed fuel amid an ongoing strike.