France denies Agathe Habyarimana asylum
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France rejected an asylum appeal from the widow of late Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana on Thursday, saying she was at the heart of the regime responsible for her country's 1994 genocide.
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France does not plan to stop the European Union from opening new policy "chapters" in Turkey's accession talks next month despite President Nicolas Sarkozy's opposition to Turkish membership, an official said on Tuesday.
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Former French President Jacques Chirac refuses to be quizzed about an alleged plot to discredit his successor.
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France&#39;s Jacques Chirac on Friday refused  to answer questions from judges about an apparent plot to smear  Nicolas Sarkozy, the man who succeeded him as president in May,  citing a constitutional bar.
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South Africa has rejected charges that it is allowing ousted Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide to organize violence in the Caribbean country while he stays in South Africa.
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A spokeswoman for Madonna on Wednesday denied claims by officials in the African nation of Malawi that the pop star had adopted a year-old orphan boy there.
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France said it will maintain its law banning Muslim scarves and other signs of religious belief in state schools, rejecting a demand by the Iraqi kidnappers of two French reporters for its revocation.
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France issued an implicit criticism of  U.S. foreign policy on Thursday, rejecting talk of a "war on  terror."
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France issued an implicit criticism of   U.S. foreign policy on Thursday, rejecting talk of a "war on   terror."
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French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has denied allegations his government secretly endorsed a failed attempt by maverick congressional deputy Didier Julia to free two journalists held in Iraq.
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France will not extradite an American suspected of killing a dermatologist in Chicago last year, saying it cannot do so because he also is a French citizen.
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The French Defense Ministry denied on  Friday a newspaper report that its special forces had supported  the Chadian government in fighting rebels who attacked the  capital last weekend.
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BAGHDAD/PARIS  - A French Muslim delegation in  Iraq said Thursday they had proof that two French hostages held  by Islamic militants were alive, even though France refused to  lift a ban on Muslim headscarves as the school year began.
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MIAMI, Aug. 24 -- A judge refused Friday to block the extradition of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to France, where he is accused of laundering millions of dollars in drug proceeds through French banks.
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PARIS  - France will not revoke a law banning Muslim head scarves in public schools despite demands by a militant Islamic group holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq, a government spokesman said Monday.
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A UN agency denies firing an employee in Pyongyang after the man highlighted alleged financial breaches.
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The head of a French charity on trial with five colleagues in Chad denied on Friday kidnapping 103 children, saying he believed in good faith they were saving orphans from Darfur.