Qaddafi visit roils France
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Critics say President Sarkozy ignored Libya's dismal human rights record while pursuing $17.6 billion in business deals.
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France's first lady was in Libya on Monday for a second day of secretive talks to try to secure the repatriation of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor
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A senior Palestinian delegation headed to France to see Yasser Arafat, but it was unclear whether they would have access to the ailing leader after the hospital restricted
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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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&quot;Given the increase in attacks since April and in the context of an elevated terrorist threat, travelers planning to go to the kingdom are advised to delay their trip for the moment except for imperative professional reasons,&quot; the French Foreign Ministry
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VILLACOUBLAY, France Ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was brought to France on Friday and rushed to a military hospital for treatment of a mysterious illness, which has forced him to leave his West Bank headquarters for the first time in nearly
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Top Palestinian officials arrived in France today to ascertain the real condition of the ailing leader, Yasir Arafat.
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France's finance minister said he would use a visit to Berlin on Thursday to iron out "misunderstandings" over his interventions to protect French companies, which have irked German politicians and business ...
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Abu Mazen, Abu Ala and Nabil Shaath to meet French president, ministers in bid to see their ailing leader despite Suha Arafatâs refusal.
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The senior Palestinian officials hoping  to come to France to visit their ailing leader Yasser Arafat  put off their trip on Monday because Arafat's wife was opposed  to it, a Palestinian official said.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born former Dutch deputy threatened with death for her outspoken criticism of Islam, sought European protection and possible French citizenship at the start of a visit to Paris on Sunday.
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France Foreign Minister Michel Barnier arrived here Wednesday on a three-day official visit to hold talks with Indian leaders on a variety of issues of bilateral interest, apart from major regional and ...
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France is facing a "high and permanent" terrorist threat, the country's interior minister says.
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TRIPOLI: President Jacques Chirac, who arrived in Libya yesterday on the first visit by a French head of state, expressed the desire for a &quot;true partnership&quot; with Tripoli after years of &quot;heavy turbulence&quot;.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin arrived in Bucharest on Sunday for a two-day official visit focusing on bilateral cooperation ahead of Romania's planned entry into the European Union in 2007.
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"I'm worried about the growing attacks that France is deploying against its European allies, against the Germans, the Luxembourgers, against all of the European countries."  France faces thinly concealed and growing frustration from Paris' European partners, irked at President Nicolas Sarkozy's strident position towards EU spending limits and attacks on the ECB. via Raw Story
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French President Jacques Chirac began an Asian tour on Tuesday with a lightning visit to Singapore, where terrorism and a potential billion-dollar jet fighter contract were hot topics of his discussions with ...