'Racial' Storm Over French Minister
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Rachida Dati has advanced further in French politics than any other person of Arab origin. But the media fracas she has ignited suggests a political class uncertain in its dealing with racial issues
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A plan by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to commemorate a young communist resistance hero shot by France's wartime Nazi occupiers has stirred controversy and sparked accusations of manipulation by the government.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is at  odds with his foreign minister over whether the country's  international television news channel should ditch English and  Arabic, and broadcast only in French.
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"Neither a Whore nor Submissive"  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 _ among the country's most diverse ever.As junior minister for city policy, feminist activist Fadela Amara will oversee the renovation of dilapidated housing estates where many immigrants live _ neighborhoods similar to the one where she grew up with her Algerian immigrant parents.Senegalese-born Rama Yade was appointed to the new post of junior minister for human rights, an area Sarkozy has identified as a priority for his month-old government, which he reshuffled and expanded after his conservative party did not fare as well as expected in weekend parliamentary elections. Read more
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Thursday France's Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was among French officials whom he accuses of supporting the 1994 genocide.Comment
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Jewish community leaders in France are dissatisfied with the timing of Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom&#39;s visit to France, just two days following an arson attack at a Jewish community center in arrondissement 11 in Paris.
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British ministers have condemned the &quot;disgraceful&quot; racial abuse of England&#39;s black players during Wednesday&#39;s friendly international against Spain in Madrid and demanded that soccer authorities take action.
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An accusation by Australian Prime Minister John Howard that France was guilty of lingering "anti-Americanism" drew sharp words from Paris during a visit by the Australian foreign minister.
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PARIS -- President Nicolas Sarkozy sent a strong signal to France's disaffected minorities yesterday by appointing an outspoken advocate of Muslim women and a woman of Senegalese origin to his government -- among the country's most diverse ever.
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PARIS The French government issued a sharp new condemnation of racism Monday as a previously unknown Islamic extremist group claimed responsibility for burning a Jewish center here.
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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 Right-wing establishment has rallied behind the former interior minister Charles Pasqua, who has come under furious attack after securing immunity from a series of criminal investigations by winning a ...
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"Clearly Sarkozy is setting the economic agenda"  She's French. She's female. And she is causing quite a stir. Christine Lagarde, the first woman finance minister for a G-8 nation, was rated the best minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government last month by one of France's top-selling newspapers. Not bad for a political newcomer who only two years ago was unknown outside legal and business circles, and who is vocally pro-market in a capitalism-wary nation.It hasn't always been this easy.In 1980s Paris, a law firm in the French capital told the young female applicant her sex disqualified her from high office. So Lagarde turned to Chicago-based law firm Baker &amp; McKenzie, where she went on to become the firm's first female director in 1999. Read more
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Italian Justice Minister Roberto Castelli lashed out at the European left for supporting convicted murderer Cesare Battisti, a well-known crime writer and cult figure in France, where he has lived since 1990.
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PARIS-The television broadcasts are infused with violence and hate. The predicament facing the French government is how to stop them.
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Rome) An Italian cabinet minister Wednesday launched into a homophobic tirade in response to this weeks rebuke of the country's nominee for the European Union's Commissioner for Justice.
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A government minister attacks criticism of two officers who were accused of not doing enough to help a drowning boy.