France urges aid boycott rethink
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France calls for the boycott of aid to the Palestinians to be re-examined if a national unity government is formed.
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Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada urged Haitian leaders on Sunday to allow the political party of the deposed president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to take part in new elections.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Monday proposed a fund to give Myanmar incentives to embrace democracy and urged China and Southeast Asia to put more pressure on Myanmar's ruling junta.
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Academics are being urged to reject calls from colleagues for a boycott of Israeli universities.
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France and Spain called for a rethink yesterday on radical German-Italian plans to set up a European Union transit camp in north Africa for refugees from Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
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France hosts a meeting of senior officials from more than a dozen countries on Monday aimed at providing funds and other support for international efforts to stabilize Sudan's violent Darfur region.
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French workers are urged to protest in numbers against the government's plans to reform the 35-hour week.
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France's foreign minister warned Monday against a "permanent repentance" for colonialism and said his country should invest more in oil-rich former colony Algeria.
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France's President Sarkozy calls for taxes to hit polluters and for French use of pesticides to be halved.
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SAINT-PIERRE-LE-VIGER, France  - President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday that France would veto any World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement that did not satisfy its requirements on agriculture.
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The French government is calling for tighter risk-control measures and a broad review of bank rules in response to losses from the trading scandal at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale.
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Israel's foreign minister tells France more action is needed in the fight to curb the rise in anti-Semitism.
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France prepared a formal request on  Thursday asking Chad to send home six French aid workers  sentenced to eight years' hard labor for trying to kidnap 103  children, the Foreign Ministry in Paris said.
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PARIS  - French President Jacques Chirac told his government to push for the Paris Club of creditor nations to put a moratorium on debt payments owed by countries hit by tsunamis in southeast Asia.
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Non-governmental organizations are discussing a boycott of the IMF and World Bank meetings in Singapore to protest the city-state's hardline stand against activists, organizers have said.
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France is pushing for an aid corridor into Sudan's Darfur region as a solution to the crisis at the G8.
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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 ...