France Urges Caution in Oil-For-Food Case
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France urged caution Thursday in dealing with a U.S. inspector's allegations it was involved in corruption at the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, while others singled out in the report rejected the charges as "far-fetched."
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France must learn to work harder and rein in its &quot;excessive&quot; public sector if it is not to sink into irreversible economic decline, a committee of experts led by former IMF chief Michel Camdessus warned the government.
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French doctors appealed on Monday to President Jacques Chirac to intervene and stop changes in wine advertising rules the physicians fear will lead to more deaths from alcohol-related illnesses and drunk driving.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Tuesday that France will veto negotiations at the World Trade Organization if French farming interests are threatened.
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France's foreign minister says the world should prepare "at worst" for war over Iran's nuclear programme.
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PARIS -- Allegations that French companies illicitly reaped financial benefits from the UN oil-for-food program are ''inaccurate&quot; and unsubstantiated, France said yesterday in a sharp response to a US arms inspector's report.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday he was willing to resort to an EU measure to ban genetically-modified crops in France if scientific studies confirm their safety was in doubt.
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Everything must be done to  avoid the prospect of war with Iran, French Prime Minister  Francois Fillon said on Monday, a day after his foreign  minister said Paris should prepare for that possibility.
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Investigators probing allegations of impropriety in the U.N. oil-for-food program have questioned Secretary-General Kofi Annan about his involvement and will do so again, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday.
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Crude oil's record-breaking run is not hitting consumer demand in France, the fastest growing euro zone economy, says budget minister Dominique Bussereau.
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Eurozone finance ministers expressed disquiet at a new surge in oil prices with France calling for urgent action by the European Union to address the latest threat to the bloc's economic growth.
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France's involvement in Ivory Coast receives sceptical scrutiny in several papers.
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Declaring that high oil prices are a threat to the global economy, the world's industrialized countries urged producers Friday to provide price relief by boosting supplies.
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French farmers on Wednesday threatened widespread protests next week if the government failed to find a solution to soaring fuel costs they say have cut into farm revenues.
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France's ambassador to Chad said Sunday that six charity workers risking kidnap charges for trying to fly 103 children to France from the Chad-Darfur border must face the consequences of their acts.
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The French government will not allow the crisis-hit bank Societe Generale to be the target of a "hostile" takeover bid, Prime Minister Francois Fillon warned on Tuesday.
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The French prime minister urges caution over reports that two French journalists held in Iraq may be freed.