Chirac to push for international tax to fight poverty
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French President Jacques Chirac will put forward ideas for an international tax scheme that would help build a 50-billion-dollar war chest to fight poverty during a 55-nation conference on economic development ...
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France is to offer tax credits to  encourage local companies to develop video games, the Ministry  of Culture said on Thursday.
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The United States could face possible European carbon taxes on its exports if it does not sign global climate accords, French President Jacques Chirac was quoted as saying in an interview published Thursday.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is due to unveil a host of new measures to regenerate poor suburbs.
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The leaders of France and Brazil on Monday warned that poverty leads to violence and urged the international community to find ways to narrow the gap between rich and poor, casting a spotlight on the more than ...
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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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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will meet with French President Jacques Chirac here Wednesday during a visit to France to defend his company's software against competition from Linux and other free Internet-based software.
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French President Jacques Chirac called for a tax to fund the global fight against AIDS on Wednesday, as new figures showed a modest rise in the number of patients receiving life-saving drugs in poor nations.
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The United States could face possible European carbon taxes on its exports if it does not sign global climate accords, French President Jacques Chirac was quoted as saying in an interview published Thursday.Comment
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PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday promised a green revolution, unveiling a mix of tax measures and investment pledges that he said would put France in the vanguard of the war against global warming.
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ECONOMISTS have warned that French President Jacques Chirac - s pledge to resume tax cuts in 2006 puts the country at risk of breaching EU budget deficit limits.
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World leaders are hoping to put a spotlight on the growing gap between rich and poor and the failure to find $50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing ...
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SUPPORTERS of President Chirac will try to change the French Constitution this week to protect him from prosecution for political corruption as soon as he leaves office.
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France's President Jacques Chirac has urged African leaders to strengthen democracy and the rule of law as he opened a summit seen as one of his last major forays on the world stage.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - President Thabo Mbeki on Friday pledged to tackle poverty and crime and speed up land redistribution to blacks, signaling a new interventionist approach in fighting South Africa's glaring social ills.
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Poverty leads to violence, the leaders of France and Brazil warned Monday in urging other nations to find ways to narrow the gap between rich and poor and help the more than 1 billion people who live on less than $1 per day.
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With a large business delegation in tow, French President Jacques Chirac is hoping to whip up flagging French investment when he arrives in communist Vietnam on Wednesday.