Hirsi Ali seeks French citizenship
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Former Dutch lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the target of death threats over her criticism of radical Islam, said she has asked France to grant her citizenship because she cannot be assured of protection back home.
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PARIS, Jun 20 (IPS) - In his successful bid to lead the country this past  spring, French President Nicolas Sarkozy made reform of the  country's immigration system a centrepiece of his campaign,  at one point telling a news conference that France was  "exasperated by the dispute about national identity and by  uncontrolled immigration."
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, seeking to cement political and business ties with a booming India, voiced support at the start of an official visit for New Delhi's controversial nuclear deal with the United States.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said he wants Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former finance minister and member of the opposition Socialist party, to be the next head of the International Monetary Fund.
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SAINT-OUEN, France Sept. 3, 2004 - For some French Muslims, two worlds collided as the ban on wearing Islamic head scarves in public schools took effect.
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Michelle Yeoh, one of Asia's biggest film stars, will receive France's highest civilian honor later this year.
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The conservative French President reaches across party lines in filling a key foreign-affairs post
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Paris - Israel has sent three letters to the French government demanding it prove Yasser Arafat was born in Jerusalem as printed on his death certificate, an Israeli diplomat in Paris said on Sunday.
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France has selected nearly 7,000 illegal   immigrants out of 30,000 applicants to benefit from a special   one-off measure granting them permanent residency, Interior   Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday.
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Angela Merkel and Jacques Chirac meet informally every two months The EU's Enlargement Commissioner, Olli Rehn, has urged Germany and France not to step up the pressure on Turkey over its membership bid.Comment
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The newly elected French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is to attempt to hammer out a joint Anglo-French position on how to replace the rejected EU constitution when he holds unprecedented joint talks with Gordon Brown and Tony Blair next Tuesday in London.
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France has formally proposed former European Union ( news - web sites ) Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy as a candidate to become the head of the World Trade Organization ( news - web sites ) (WTO), Lamy said ...
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Eastwood's wife and children accompanied him at the ceremony Hollywood star Clint Eastwood has been presented with the highest civilian distinction in France, Legion d'honneur, at a ceremony in Paris.Comment
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President Nicolas Sarkozy sent a strong signal to France's disaffected minorities Tuesday by appointing an outspoken advocate of Muslim women and a woman of Senegalese origin Tuesday to his government &#151; among the country's most diverse ever.
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In a new book seen as a prelude to a presidential bid, France's finance minister is taking up the thorny question of how to reach out to an increasingly assertive Muslim minority and integrate it into a largely ...
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Sport: Former French international has emerged as a surprise contender for the managerial vacancy
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France's crusader of the far right, who rallied flag-waving followers at a National Front party congress Sunday, is making his sixth long-shot bid for France's presidency.Comment