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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
12 Surveys continue to predict that Hollande, right, will defeat Sarkozy in Sunday's decisive presidential runoff French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist challenger Francois Hollande clashed repeatedly in their only televised debate, with the...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
May 2, 2012 01:00 In a week to come, the French people will give their word on who will be the next president of France. Amid this environment, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that he would file a case against a website that claimed that Qaddafi...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Le Pen torpedoes Sarkozy's hopes Zeenews Bureau Paris: In what seemed to knock down Nicholas Sarkozy's dwindling hopes, French far right leader Le Pen on Tuesday rejected his bid to woo her voters. Le Pen said to a rally in Paris that she would cast...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Associated Press The late Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi's former chief of staff is living in France with the government's permission despite facing U.S. sanctions and being wanted by Interpol. The presence in France of Basher Saleh threatens to...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's extreme right wing National Front (FM) party who gained an unprecedented 18 percent of the vote in the first round of the French presidential elections, said she will not endorse either of the two remaining...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Basher Saleh, a close ally of ousted Libya n President Muhammaed Gaddaffi, lives in exile in France with the government's permission, according to French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Speaking to RMC Radio, Sarkozy said: "Saleh lives in France," AP...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 1 year ago
Le Pen came in a strong third place in the first round of voting, and says she will announce Tuesday how she wants her voters to cast their ballots for the runoff. Sarkozy has borrowed some of Le Pen's rhetoric and is hoping Le Pen's supporters back...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Less than a week ahead of the presidential election, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to sue a website over articles which claimed that the slain Libya n dictator Moammar Gadhafi donated around $65 million to his 2007 presidential...
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Novinite
| 1 year ago
French President Nicolas Sarkozy , who will seek re-election on the second round of presidentials Saturday and Sunday, has made a new attempt at courting far-right voters. In an interview for a French radio Tuesday, ahead of a large May 1 and pre-...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
French far right leader Marine Le Pen is in the spotlight as she celebrates Joan of Arc's birthday by declaring which candidate if any she is supporting in Sunday's presidential election. Le Pen is leading her anti-immigrant National Front's...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will take legal action against a Web site that alleged former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi funded his 2007 campaign. Mediapart published Saturday what it claimed to be a copy of a Libyan document showing...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will take legal action against a Web site that alleged former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi funded his 2007 campaign. Mediapart published Saturday what it claimed to be a copy of a Libyan document showing...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
It came after Sarkozy, who has accused "biased" left-wing media of targeting him, said he would sue a website that claimed Gaddafi financed his 2007 campaign. (AFP)
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Prosecutors on Monday opened an enquiry after French President Nicolas Sarkozy sued a website that claimed Moammar Qaddafi financed his 2007 presidential election, in the crucial final week before France returns to the polls. Sarkozy's complaint,...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
French prosecutors are investigating a news website that claims to have evidence that Libya's late dictator Moammar Gadhafi offered campaign funds to France's president.
The investigation was opened Monday after President Nicolas...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will bring charges against a news website for claiming that late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi had offered to give him $50 million to help finance his first presidential bid. French website Mediapart...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Less than a week before the decisive second round of France's contentious presidential elections, the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy is fighting on at least two different fronts. Outraged by claims that former Libya n dictator Moammar Gaddafi offered to...
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Fox
| 1 year ago
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will file a complaint against a news website that claims to have evidence he was offered campaign financing from late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for his first presidential bid. Sarkozy denies the allegation,...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Sarkozy has vigorously denied the allegation, which was first levied by one of Gaddafi's sons last year as France was pressing for international airstrikes against Gaddafi's forces to end a crackdown on rebels. Although no evidence has emerged that...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 1 year ago
Sarkozy denies the allegation, which was first levied by one of Gadhafi's sons last year as France was pressing for international airstrikes against Gadhafi's forces...Sarkozy told French TV on Monday that he would file a complaint before the end of...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
15 The two French presidential candidates have headed into the last round of their campaign battles with both of them threatened by the shadow of scandal, a week ahead of the country's runoff. As he struggled to catch up with his Socialist rival and...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is denying allegations he accepted $66 million in campaign donations in 2007 from former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The allegation appeared Saturday in the online magazine Mediapart, which said it had a Libyan...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
French candidates battle scandal as polling day looms AFP 18 mins ago France's incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy gives a speech during a campaign meeting, on April 24. The French presidential race entered the home straight Sunday with both...
