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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France urged Ukraine's new authorities under reformist president Viktor Yushchenko to take a gradual approach in preparing for eventually joining the European Union and urged Kiev to uphold good ties with Russia.
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France sought a vote in the U.N.  Security Council Monday to impose an arms embargo and other  bans on Ivory Coast after a cease-fire was broken and nine  French soldiers were killed by government bombings.
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Saying "silence kills", French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged delegates to a meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Darfur on Monday to find a way to stop the violence ravaging Sudan's vast west.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged world powers Monday to take a tough line with Sudan if it balks at efforts to end bloodshed in Darfur, and argued that ignoring the situation was tantamount to complicity.
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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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The French government Sunday scrambled to develop a response to kidnappers who grabbed two French journalists in Iraq, demanding Paris revoke a law banning Islamic head scarves in public schools. There was no sign France would capitulate.
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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 ambassador to the United Nations on Sunday criticized France for &quot;doing terrorists a favor&quot; by pushing for the adoption of a UN resolution condemning an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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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 Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin makes a surprise call for democratic reform in Tunisia.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard  Kouchner, on his first visit to Africa, called on Friday for  more development aid to help curb emigration and threw his  support behind a peace process in war-divided Ivory Coast.
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Palestinian PM and Hamas leader Ismail Haniya urges the US and EU to lift their boycott of the Palestinian Authority.
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President Nicolas  Sarkozy said on Tuesday that France would veto any World Trade  Organization (WTO) agreement that did not satisfy its  requirements on farming.
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France's Jacques Chirac calls for a fairer international order based on a strengthened United Nations.
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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 President Jacques Chirac called on Europe and the United Nations ( news - web sites ) to organise a humanitarian rapid reaction force to deal with natural catastrophes such as that currently afflicting ...