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Cheap Hotel The court gave Yahoo! three months to find a way to block French Web surfers from its Internet pages selling objects such as swastika-emblazoned flags and daggers.

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Online Booking "We regret having to put in place measures that won't be effective," said Christophe Pecnard, a lawyer for Yahoo! "We hope that other countries won't take the same route."

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Hotel Reservation The trans-Atlantic legal battle began seven months ago, when two Paris antiracism groups sued Yahoo!, angry that French people had access to more than 1,000 objects of Nazi memorabilia on its auction site, http://auctions.yahoo.com.

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