Love story sparks up French presidential campaign
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A story of love and rivalry  is spicing up the French Socialists' presidential race, with  revealing photos and bedroom gossip fanning the campaign.
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France's popular president leads national day celebrations with several breaks with tradition.
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THE French president promoted a staunch ally to replace a popular finance minister, strengthening his hand ahead of an expected struggle for the governing party&#39;s 2007 presidential nomination.
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Sen. John Kerrys French connection was treated as a liability during his bid for the U.S. presidency.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy made big promises during his recent election campaign, and a guy named Mustapha Smail plans to tell the world whether he keeps them.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy says his relationship with model-turned-singer Carla Bruni is serious, and he suggested that wedding plans were in the works.
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In politics, as in good comedy, timing is everything, and news that President Nicolas Sarkozy is dating Italian model turned singer Carla Bruni has raised a wry smile or three after a week of bad political headlines.
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She electrified France last fall, but the Socialist presidential candidate has hurt her chances with a succession of foreign-policy gaffes. Can she get the wind back in her sails?
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France's crusader of the far right, who rallied flag-waving followers at a National Front party congress Sunday, is making his sixth long-shot bid for France's presidency.
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Nicolas Sarkozy and his new flame Carla Bruni have transfixed the world's gossip press for weeks, but the jet-setting romance seems to have backfired among French voters worried their president is taking his eye off the job.
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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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The race opens this week for the prize of carrying the opposition Socialist Party (PS) banner in France's approaching elections, with the star of the opinion polls Segolene Royal well-positioned to pursue her bid to be the country's first woman president.
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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 elections.
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With the presidential election four months away, candidates are working to seduce alienated and disadvantaged ethnic populations.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's new love interest is supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni, reports said Monday after the two were photographed together at Disneyland Paris.
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Four months after Nicolas Sarkozy became France&#39;s new president, a cool wind is blowing between Paris and Berlin as tensions appear in his pivotal relationship with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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President Nicholas Sarkozy might have  just got re-married, but his love affair with the French  electorate appears well and truly over.