French leaders meet following arson attack
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Israel&#39;s foreign minister praised France on Tuesday for taking steps to stem a four-year wave of violence against French Jews that shows no signs of easing.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has held an emergency meeting with senior cabinet ministers to discuss how to respond to the apparent kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq.
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The French government convoked Monday an emergency meeting over the release of two French journalists still held in hostage in Iraq, after parliamentary deputy Didier Julia's failure to secure their release.
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THE French Health Minister summoned a crisis meeting on safety in public hospitals last night after the gruesome double murder of a psychiatric nurse and a care assistant in southern France.
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A French Muslim leader who traveled to  Iraq to try to secure the release of two French journalists  said on Monday talks were in the "delivery phase," but a surge  of violence in Iraq has complicated the situation.
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PARIS - Arsonists torched a Jewish community centre in eastern Paris Sunday, the latest target in a recent wave of anti-Semitic incidents in France.
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The row continues in France over president Sarkozy meeting the Libyan leader. Especially after defense executives vowed to boost the country's arms exports
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Heads of state from French-speaking nations are gathering in the west African nation of Burkina Faso for a two-day summit to discuss the crisis in Ivory Coast.
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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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The UN Security Council met in special session on Saturday evening to discuss the violence in Ivory Coast, where at least 10 people died in clashes, including nine French soldiers and a US citizen.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin today called a crisis meeting to discuss the fate of the two French journalists still held hostage in Iraq, as efforts to secure their release threatened to descend into farce.
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy met with Colombia's Alvaro Uribe on Monday to press for action to free hostages held by leftist rebels, including French-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt who has become a cause celebre in France.
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Arsonists set fire to a Jewish soup  kitchen in central Paris early on Sunday morning and daubed  Nazi symbols on the building, police said, in the latest  anti-Semitic act in France.
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The heads of French car maker Renault   and U.S. auto giant General Motors Corp.  will  meet in Paris on Wednesday amid a report talks on a mooted  alliance could be in trouble.
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Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and a delegation of IRA victims are to hold a meeting.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin met ministers for a crisis meeting on two French journalists held hostage in Iraq on Monday as efforts to secure their release threatened to turn into a fiasco.
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Lebanon's rival parties met in a French chateau Saturday for unusual and long-awaited talks meant to ease a political and sectarian crisis threatening to rip apart their country.