France offers medical aid
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PARIS: France offered to treat child victims of Russia's school seizure and the international police organisation Interpol said it could help determine whether the hostage-takers were linked to international ...
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France last night dispatched its foreign minister, Michel Barnier, to the Middle East in an attempt to save the lives of two journalists kidnapped by Iraqi militants who have demanded that Paris revokes its ban on Islamic headscarves in schools.
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The French government is looking to raise up to â¬5.8bn to help pay its debts by selling some of its France Telecom shares. As this will reduce its shareholding to just over 40 per cent, the move will allow
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France agreed on Thursday to a Palestinian request to let Yasser Arafat be treated in a French hospital and will send a plane to collect the ailing Palestinian leader, a presidential spokesperson said.
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France's President Jacques Chirac Friday called on Europe and the United Nations to organise a humanitarian rapid reaction force to deal with natural catastrophes such as that currently afflicting Asia.
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France hosts an international aid conference aimed at reviving the state of the Palestinian economy.
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A system linking the some of the globe's best doctors with the developing world is saving lives.
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French doctors were reportedly using various medical machines to keep Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat alive Saturday until a burial site could be found.
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French Economy and Finance Minister Thierry Breton has said that the French state and other three European governments would participate in financing the A350 airliner programme.
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Frail Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was admitted to a French military hospital near Paris for urgent treatment for what is said to be a potentially fatal blood disorder.
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Caroline Wyatt reports on France's care for the elderly - and the cost of providing for a comfortable old age.
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Patients should be able to go to other member countries for treatment, the EU health commissioner says.
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France plans to offer financial incentives to more immigrants, especially from Africa, to return home voluntarily.
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France's president offered Saudi Arabia help in exploring a possible civilian nuclear energy program as the French leader began a visit to the oil-rich kingdom on Sunday.
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[World News]: Beijing, Oct 9 : China and France Saturday inked agreements for cooperation on contagious diseases, information technology and telecommunications.
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The French government has pledged to step up security in hospitals following the brutal murder of a nurse and nursing assistant in south-west France.
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France's first lady visited Libya Sunday and met its leader Moammar Gadhafi to press for the repatriation of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor imprisoned for allegedly infecting Libyan children with the AIDS virus, French media and Libyan officials said.