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French Jobless Claims Rise to Record, Defying Hollande Recovery

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French jobless claims rose for a third month, underscoring the inability of the country’s nascent economic recovery to generate employment so far.

The number of people actively looking for work in France grew by 26,200, or 0.7 percent, to 3.54 million in April, the Labor Ministry said Monday.