| Paris fire prompts housing pledge
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France has vowed to improve housing for society's most vulnerable members, after 14 children and three adults died in a blaze in Paris.
The fire swept through a block of flats housing African immigrants in Paris' 13th district. Thirty people were hurt.
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy blamed the deaths on overcrowding in the run-down seven-storey building.
Social Cohesion and Housing Minister Jean-Louis Borloo promised to launch a programme to build new social housing.
He said details of the "high priority project" would be released within the next few days.
Some 200 firefighters took two hours to control the blaze, which broke out in a stairwell at around 0017 (2217 GMT Thursday).
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