French PM OKs extradition of Italian fugitive and noted author Cesare Battisti
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French Premier Jean-Pierre Raffarin signed an order Saturday to extradite a leftist Italian fugitive who has been convicted of murder, an official statement said.
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Italy's top appeals court has approved  the extradition to Spain of a prime suspect in the March 11  Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people, rejecting his  appeals, a Spanish court source said on Wednesday.
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A French-Algerian national suspected of links with international terrorism has been deported from Britain to France on national security grounds, officials said.
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A French court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for former leftist Italian guerrilla Cesare Battisti after he failed to report to police for regular checks.
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France sent its Foreign Minister Michel Barnier to Egypt on the first stage of a visit to the Middle East to discuss the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq, Agence France-Presse reported.
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A U.S. judge on Tuesday approved the extradition of former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega to face money laundering charges in France when his long Florida prison sentence for drug smuggling ends next month.
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French President Jacques Chirac sent his  foreign minister to the Middle East on Sunday to try to win  freedom for two journalists held in Iraq by militants demanding  France end its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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The Paris appeals court issued a warrant for the arrest of Cesare Battisti, an Italian ex-revolutionary fighting extradition from France to face jail for murder who missed a recent check-in with police.
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An alleged Mafia boss suspected of four murders in Italy has been extradited from the UK.
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The outgoing French finance minister has been confirmed as the new head of President Jacques Chirac&#39;s governing party. Nicolas Sarkozy, one of France&#39;s most popular politicians
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A French national jailed in Iran for more than a year for straying into territorial waters during a fishing expedition was released on Sunday, French diplomats said.
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France on Friday extradited to Bulgaria Vasil Kachikov, a Bulgarian national suspected of complicity in the assassination of one of his country's underworld bosses in Amsterdam about a year ago.
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The former Panamanian dictator's term ended Sunday. He faces extradition to France or being sent back to Panama.
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A US judge rules ex-Panama President Manuel Noriega can be extradited to France on laundering charges.
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The two French journalists, who have been held hostage for 4 months in Iraq, have been freed. French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin made the announcement to the Senate who responded to the news with applause.
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A French court could issue an arrest warrant for Cesare Battisti, a former Italian left-wing extremist living in Paris who is fighting extradition to his home country, as soon as next week, court sources said.
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The French prime minister urges caution over reports that two French journalists held in Iraq may be freed.