France says Europe should make U.S. companies pay fair share of taxes

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France says Europe should make U.S. companies pay fair share of taxes

France says Europe should make U.S. companies pay fair share of taxes

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) - Time has come for the European Union to make multinationals, such as U.S. giants Amazon, Facebook and Google, pay their fair share of taxes, the French finance minister said on Sunday. "I can tell you that the times we live in are not for the weak," Bruno Le Maire told a conference in the southern French city of Aix-en-Provence where many French and international executives gather every year.


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China tests self-sustaining space station in Beijing

Sealed behind the steel doors of two bunkers in a Beijing suburb, university students are trying to find out how it feels to live in a space station on another planet, recycling everything from plant cuttings to urine. "I'll get so much out of this," Liu Guanghui, a PhD student, who entered the bunker on Sunday, said. President Xi Jinping wants China to become a global power in space exploration, with plans to send the first probe to the dark side of the moon by 2018 and to put astronauts on the moon by 2036.


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