51.   France has said its current series would be the last ever, before the planned signing of a comprehensive test ban next year.

52.   France carried out its sixth, and possibly last nuclear test in its controversial current series, at the Fangataufa atoll in the South Pacific Saturday.

53.   France has also said it favors such a treaty once its current series of tests, expected to number six in all, is finished.

54.   France on Wednesday carried out the fifth in its current series of nuclear tests at its Mururoa site in the South Pacific, the defence ministry said.

55.   France says it will back a ban on nuclear testing once its current series of tests is completed.

56.   France says it will back a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing once its current series of tests is completed.

57.   French defence officials have announced the current series of nuclear tests in the South Pacific are to end by late February -- three months earlier than planned.

58.   France has conducted two nuclear tests in the current series so far.

59.   France is expected to conduct the sixth nuclear test and perhaps the last one in its controversial current series in the south Pacific in the next few days.

60.   France on Wednesday carried out the fifth in its current series of underground nuclear tests at its Mururoa site in the South Pacific, the defence ministry said.