He was replying to a request for Titan to consider investing in a loss-making Goodyear plant in Amiens, north France.

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Paris (CNN) -- Seventeen police officers were injured in violent clashes with young people in the city of Amiens in northern France overnight, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday.

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"Her tracheotomy tube was removed, and, putting a finger over the tracheotomy canal, her first word was 'merci, '" said Dr. Bernard Devauchelle, one of the many surgeons who carried out the surgery on November 27 in Amiens, northern France.

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Amiens Cathedral in north-western France is a Gothic masterpiece built before Notre Dame Cathedral.

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