French foreign minister praises decision to ban Al-Manar TV
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France&#39;s foreign minister on Tuesday praised an administrative panel&#39;s decision to ban satellite broadcasts by Al-Manar Television station, as officials in Lebanon slammed the move as proof of Zionist pressure.
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France goes head-to-head with CNN and the BBC from Wednesday with the launch of its state-funded 24/7 news channel, part of President Jacques Chirac's efforts to make his country's voice heard.Comment
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France's foreign minister says he "understands" two Israeli soldiers kidnapped in Lebanon last year are alive.
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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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Europe's papers praise Turkey's decision to shelve plans to ban adultery.
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The decision by the highest administrative court in France to ban the Lebanese satellite television network Al Manar from broadcasting in the country shows that France has greatly distanced itself from Gaullism ...
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France was doing everything possible to secure the release of a woman journalist taken hostage in Iraq last month, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said on Tuesday.
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French President Jacques Chirac sent his  foreign minister to the Middle East on Sunday to try to win  freedom for two journalists held in Iraq by militants demanding  France end its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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I announce... good news regarding the release soon of the two French journalists, Fadhel al-Rabii, a spokesman for the Iraqi National Forces, told the Dubai-based television station Al-Arabiya from Damascus.
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BEIRUT -- Al-Manar, the television station of Lebanon's Hezbollah militants that has glorified suicide bombers, lost its satellite feed to the United States yesterday after Washington put it on a list of terror organizations. The exclusion from US television screens occurred less than a week after France banned its broadcasts. The station, which ranks fourth or fifth among Lebanon's nine ...
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Â· Officials back nuclear inspector's warning Â· Tehran denounces French extremism in row
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier vowed a zero tolerance policy towards anti-semitism as he visited a memorial to French Jews killed in the Holocaust at the start of a fence-mending trip to Israel.
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France was doing everything possible to  secure the release of a woman journalist taken hostage in Iraq  last month, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said on Tuesday.
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SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt -- Foreign ministers from 20 countries signed a 14-point statement Tuesday supporting the Iraqi interim government and elections planned for the end of January.
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The relations of French officialdom have been uneasy of late. First there was the matter of the headscarf, which has been followed by a row over whether or not to ban broadcasts by the Al-Manar (The Beacon
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France backed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's description of the US-led war on Iraq as &quot;illegal&quot; with Foreign Minister Michel Barnier saying that that long-held stance was why his country had opposed joining the conflict.
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CAIRO, Egypt - France's foreign minister appealed Monday for the release of two French journalists abducted in Baghdad, saying the French respect all religions. He did not rule out traveling to Baghdad...