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Paris local time is GMT +1 hour. --------------------Friday November 20, 2009--------------------

POLITICAL EVENTS

PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy meets some 700 French mayors to discuss the planned abolition of the taxe professionnelle (0900 GMT). ----------------------------------------------------------------

GENERAL EVENTS

PARIS/NEW YORK - Inaugural flight of Air France's Airbus A380. ----------------------------------------------------------------

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