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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 11 months ago
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon remains more popular than President Nicolas Sarkozy this month though fewer people are satisfied with Fillon than in November, an opinion poll issued on Saturday showed. The Ifop poll found 52 percent of those...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 11 months ago
World leaders will gather November 15 in Washington for a summit to discuss the global economic crisis. A senior administration official said Wednesday that the forum will be the first in a series of international meetings to discuss what economists...
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News Source: The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Even if it is being said through gritted teeth in London, the French presidency of the European Union , which ends this month, has been a success. This is not a column which has devoted many inches to praising Nicolas Sarkozy .
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News Source: The Independent
| 11 months ago
If Greek students sneeze, or catch a whiff of tear-gas, young people take to the streets in France and now Sweden. Yesterday, masked youths threw two firebombs at the French Institute in Athens. Windows were smashed but the building was not seriously...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 11 months ago
Topless Carla win in the bag Friday, December 19, 2008 A French clothing company had been ordered to pay Carla Bruni-Sarkozy 40,000 euros (HK$453,700) in damages over a shopping bag featuring a picture of France's first lady in the nude. The wife of...
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News Source: France 24
| 11 months ago
French prosecutors began a preliminary inquiry Friday to decide whether to try a former domestic intelligence chief who kept secret files on the personal and sexual lives of senior politicians. President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose colourful private...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 11 months ago
â Vandals desecrated at least 500 tombs of Muslim soldiers in northern France on Monday â an act President Nicolas Sarkozy denounced as "repugnant racism." The desecration near the town of Arras appeared timed with the start of Eid al-Adha,...
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News Source: International Herald Tribune
| 11 months ago
The images from Greece this month were enough to put the fear of youth into the hearts of European leaders. That dread was palpable in France when President Nicolas Sarkozy abruptly delayed for one year a plan to overhaul France's high schools,...
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News Source: Gulf News
| 11 months ago
Netanyahu, who is the leader of the hardline Likud party, told the French daily Le Figaro that the group's plan for peace is "to support the emergence of a credible partner and reinforce the moderate Palestinians." "For that, conditions must be...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 11 months ago
Sometimes, here in the U.S., we have a tendency to be a little provincial when it comes to the world stage. We get so caught up in our own troubles that we forget there are people out there who have it even worse. For instance, we've been so fixated...