France rallies world support for Chad president
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N'DJAMEMA  - France rallied the international community on Tuesday in support of Chad's President Idriss Deby after he survived a fierce attack on the capital N'Djamena by rebels seeking to topple him.
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French President Jacques Chirac (C), flanked by General Secretary of the Francophone association (OIF) Abdou Diouf (L) and Burkina Faso&#039s President Blaise Compaore give a press conference at the end of the ...
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France raised the alert level Thursday for its military forces in Chad following intelligence reports that rebels were moving toward the African country's capital, a military spokesman said.
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Taiwan rolled out the red carpet to welcome Chad's President Idriss Deby, one of a handful of international leaders who have publicly supported the island.
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PARIS -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged swift international action Monday toward speeding up deployment of troops in Darfur, as key world players met to try to consolidate efforts and resources for the ravaged Sudanese region.
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France has bolstered its presence in the Central African Republic with 100 more troops following rebel attacks and growing concern over the neighboring Darfur region of Sudan, a military official said Thursday.
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Chad's president says he is ready to pardon French aid workers jailed for abducting children from his country.
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The French president sees support for plans that would group nations as diverse as Libya and Spain
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Russia, China, Britain, France, Germany and dozens of other countries have rallied to support beleaguered UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan after a US senator called for
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In a show of his new foreign policy objectives, the French president called a meeting Monday in an attempt to help bolster the international military presence in Darfur.
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N'DJAMENA  - The French and U.S. embassies in Chad were preparing their nationals there for possible evacuation on Saturday as advancing rebels opposed to President Idriss Deby threatened the capital N'Djamena from the northeast.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier visited Jordan and Egypt to win support for the release of two French hostages in Iraq, Agence France-Presse said.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Thursday that France backs the rapid adoption of &quot;new sanctions&quot; against Iran if it maintains its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.
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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi Thursday praised French President Jacques Chirac&#39;s visit to Libya, which he said boosted relations between their countries.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chadian rebels surrounded the presidential palace in N'Djamena on Saturday after storming into the capital, and France began evacuating French and foreign nationals from the city.
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Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno said Thursday he was willing to pardon six French aid workers convicted of trying to fly more than 100 children out of the country, now serving their jail terms in France.
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The new French foreign minister said Sudan's president told him in a meeting Monday that he now fully agreed to a "hybrid" U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force of more than 20,000 to stop the bloodshed in Darfur but was adamant that all of them must come from Africa.