Far-right Le Pen visits French president
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President Nicolas Sarkozy held talks Wednesday with far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen &#151; the first time the nationalist firebrand has been invited to the presidential palace in at least 33 years.
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French President Jacques Chirac arrived in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu for a four-day state visit centering on economic cooperation.
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The president of France is in China on a five-day visit to improve ties with Beijing, and expand trade with one of the world&#39;s fastest growing economies.
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French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen says rivals are making joint efforts to stop him running for president.
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LONDON - France&#39;s President Jacques Chirac was in London on Thursday for discussions with British Prime Minister Tony Blair focusing on transatlantic relations and the Middle East peace process.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday to try to agree on who will run the troubled European aerospace group EADS, which manufactures Airbus.
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French President Jacques Chirac, arriving Wednesday in Libya for the first visit there by a French head of state in more than half a century, said that turbulent times
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Far-right leader Jean-Marie Le  Pen launched his 2007 presidential campaign on an historic  French battleground on Wednesday, urging people of all colors  and origins to rally to his anti-immigration flag.
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The French president will meet his Chinese counterpart on a four-day state visit focusing on economic ties.
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In a show of his new foreign policy objectives, the French president called a meeting Monday in an attempt to help bolster the international military presence in Darfur.
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TRIPOLI, Libya President Jacques Chirac of France arrived Wednesday in Tripoli in an attempt to formally end years of difficult relations between the two countries and open a new frontier for French business.
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The French president hails the "true friendship" with the UK,  but mentions "differences" over Iraq as his visit ends.
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One of France's top presidential candidates asked mayors and other elected officials on Monday to give their backing to an extreme right-wing politician to ensure he has enough endorsements to run in the spring ...Comment
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New French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has visited his country's rugby squad, hoping for a World Cup win to boost national morale.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian leaders were  going ahead with a visit to France to see critically ill  Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, a senior Palestinian  official told Reuters on Monday.
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French presidential hopeful Nicolas  Sarkozy was accused by his rivals of xenophobia and flirting  with far-right voters on Friday after proposing to create a  ministry for immigration and national identity.
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France's president is heading for a showdown with European finance ministers over the French economy.