France pledges support for Lebanon government
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PARIS -- The new French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, flew to Beirut yesterday, pledging that Paris would stand by the Lebanese government amid the worsening political crisis and the new bout of violence there.
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French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin endorsed the presidential bid of fellow conservative but longtime rival Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday, a day after Jacques Chirac announced he would not seek a third term.
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French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and his Italian counterpart Romano Prodi, whose countries are providing the core of a boosted UN force in Lebanon, will meet Friday in Rome, French officials said.
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Lebanon&#39;s Cabinet voted Saturday to amend the country&#39;s constitution to permit President Emile Lahoud to stay in office for three more years after his present term ends.
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The Arab League won vital Syrian support on Monday for its efforts to end a standoff between Lebanon's pro-Western government and a Hezbollah-led opposition rallying hundreds of thousands in central Beirut, an envoy said.
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JERUSALEM, Aug 24  - An Israeli cabinet minister hailed the French government&#39;s stance on anti-Semitism Tuesday as Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom headed to Paris for talks on a growing spate of attacks on Europe&#39;s largest Jewish community.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday championed the idea of a &quot;simplified treaty&quot; for the European Union, which European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said was gaining support.
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BEIRUT -- The Arab League won vital Syrian support yesterday for its efforts to end a standoff between Lebanon's government and a Hezbollah-led opposition that has been rallying hundreds of thousands in central Beirut, an envoy said.
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The election of Lebanon's president must  go ahead on Saturday as scheduled, French President Nicolas  Sarkozy told his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in a phone  call, Sarkozy's spokesman said on Friday.
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Lebanon&#39;s president has reaffirmed that Beirut will continue to work closely with Syria, as hundreds of Lebanese came to congratulate him on the extension of his term, which Washington says was orchestrated by Damascus.
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Lebanon&#39;s parliament voted overwhelmingly Friday to extend the term of Syrian-backed President Emile Lahoud, despite a UN Security Council resolution warning Damascus against interfering in Lebanon.
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French critics and defenders of a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools united in support of the law on Monday, pledging to stand firm against militants holding two French
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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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France Thursday expressed support for a planned conference on the Middle East to be held early next year in London, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier saying it is vital to help the Palestinian Authority to ...
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Lebanon&#39;s cabinet has approved a bill to amend the constitution and allow the president, Emile Lahoud, to stay in power for another three years.
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President Bush pledges US support for Lebanon after the killing of minister Pierre Gemayel heightens tensions.
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France has no plans to pull its troops out of Afghanistan and will remain loyal to its allies serving in a multinational force there, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday