France's Chief Purveyor of Paranoia
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No writer has provided as many scenarios for suspense films than the great master of unease, Georges Simenon. The latest adaptation is "Red Lights."
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Societe Generale faces growing embarrassment after it emerged the French bank was warned last year about the suspect activities of Jerome Kerviel and its key fraud accusation against the 31-year-old trader collapsed.
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The man at the center of a trading  scandal at Societe Generale said that his activities could not  have gone undetected by the French bank.
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At some point during a recent tour of the Contemporary Museum's "Cell Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone," I started to become aware of two overpowering feelings: paranoia and technological inadequacy.
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"I'm worried about the growing attacks that France is deploying against its European allies, against the Germans, the Luxembourgers, against all of the European countries."  France faces thinly concealed and growing frustration from Paris' European partners, irked at President Nicolas Sarkozy's strident position towards EU spending limits and attacks on the ECB. via Raw Story
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Extending the hand of friendship to a man viewed as a paranoid recluse with extreme views may seem a puzzling move. It becomes even more inexplicable when to do so could earn you the disapproval of the US, a powerful enemy.
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The number of anti-Semitic attacks in  France has more than doubled over the past year, with most  committed for vague reasons rather than ideology, France's  interior minister said in an interview published Friday.
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Nicolas Sarkozy's tough-guy image is damaged by rising crime in the Banlieue
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At 72, the famous mentalist is still full of ambitious predictions.
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A plan by French President Nicolas  Sarkozy to commemorate a young communist resistance hero shot  by France's wartime Nazi occupiers has stirred controversy and  sparked accusations of manipulation by the government.
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A plan by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to commemorate a young communist resistance hero shot by France's wartime Nazi occupiers has stirred controversy and sparked accusations of manipulation by the government.
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Comment is free: Pankaj Mishra:  France's shrinking power drives the president to talk of a new civilisation, but risks exposing a habit of intellectual deception
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Challenging one of the great taboos of French politics, a new book has laid bare the love life of the country's amorous leaders.
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French President Jacques Chirac: on his way out figures among the top &#x2019;euro-saures&#x2019; who, in accordance with the laws of evolution, must give way to a new kind of leader.Comment
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The abstruse French writer is popping up everywhere these days- in movies, TV, even newspapers. Is he trying to tell us something?
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An investigation is launched in France as a man is held on suspicion of faking robbery to fund a terror group.
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In so many ways, French politician and presidential aspirant Nicolas Sarkozy is a breath of fresh air in French and European politics.