Birthday cake but no Putin for Chirac
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French President Jacques Chirac got a birthday cake from his Latvian host but no surprise visit from Russian President Vladimir Putin to mark his 74th birthday on Wednesday.
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The government refused on Friday to speculate on who might have been behind the explosion outside its embassy in Paris, nor would it verify whether Indonesia was the intended target.
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France cannot accept a nuclear-armed Iran, President Jacques Chirac's office said on Thursday, back-tracking on earlier remarks by the president that it would not be dangerous for Iran to have an atom bomb.
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Jacques Chirac, admired and scorned during 12 years as president of France, leaves a legacy as mixed and ambiguous as the man himself.Comment
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French President Jacques Chirac Wednesday wrote to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to express his strong indignation over the suicide bombing that killed 10 people and
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France cannot accept a nuclear-armed  Iran, President Jacques Chirac's office said on Thursday,  back-tracking on earlier remarks by the president that it would  not be dangerous for Iran to have an atom bomb.
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Whatever President Vladimir Putin's purpose in choosing a new prime minister, he didn't look far.
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Clearly the American election is on the mind of the president of France. When President Jacques Chirac stood before his ambassadorial corps today, there was no hint that
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Former French president Jacques Chirac has refused to testify in a political dirty tricks scandal while he was in office, but a newspaper said Saturday he has been summoned over a separate party financing affair.
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French President Jacques Chirac welcomes  his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday at a time when  Russia is showing growing willingness to use booming oil and  gas revenues to boost its global economic clout.
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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, refused on Monday to order a public inquiry into last week&#39;s siege and massacre at a middle school in the southern town of Beslan
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No foreign countries will be allowed to meddle in the campaign leading up to Russia's crucial presidential election in March, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.
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Lebanon's president is excluded from a French-speaking summit over his alleged links to the former PM's assassination.
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PARIS -- President Nicolas Sarkozy of France disappointed thousands of prisoners yesterday by refusing to sanction a traditional Bastille Day pardon. Sarkozy's two predecessors, Jacques Chirac and Francois Mitterrand, regularly ordered the release of prisoners on the July 14 holiday, to help relieve prison crowding. But Sarkozy, who is considered a law and order hard-liner, said in an interview that ...
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Business & money: Chancellor refuses to abide by decision of other 26 countries to back French socialist Dominique Strauss-Kahn as candidate for post.
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Clearly the American election is on the mind of the president of France. When President Jacques Chirac stood before his ambassadorial corps on Friday, there was no hint that the relationship between France and ...
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LONDON, Sep 29 (IranMania) - Russia is against bringing up Iran&#39;s nuclear program at the UN Security Council and thinks the issue should be handled by the body&#39;s nuclear watchdog, a top official said Wednesday, Agence France Press  reported.