World IN BRIEF : FRANCE : 4th Nuclear Test Staged in Polynesia
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France staged its fourth nuclear test this year in the South Pacific at the French Polynesian atoll of Mururoa, defying 95 nations that last week in the United Nations called for an end to its underground blasts. Angry reactions were swift from Australia and New Zealand, the most vocal critics of French President Jacques Chirac’s break with a three-year moratorium on testing.
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