Sarkozy heads to Libya at start of African tour
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy heads Wednesday to Tripoli for strategic talks with Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, ahead of his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as head of state.
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Libyan leader Moamer Khadafi arrived Saturday in the west African state of Guinea, driving in a motorcade of several hundred vehicles en route for the Ghanaian capital Accra and an African Union summit, locals said.
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French President Sarkozy discusses Mediterranean unity and energy ties on a North African visit.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair flew in to oil-rich Libya at the start of an African tour for talks with Moamer Kadhafi on a visit expected to see a major energy deal sealed.
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Nicolas Sarkozy heads for Algeria and Tunisia - his first visit outside Europe since becoming French president.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy took the frosty edge off ties with Algeria on Tuesday during his first visit outside Europe, saying France and its colony for 132 years must bury a rocky past and reinvent the future.
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BEJIJING, Nov. 25 (Xinhuaent) -- French president Jacques Chirac is in Libya, the first such visit by a French leader over 50 years.
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The Algerian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, is due in Bern on Tuesday for the first state visit to Switzerland since Algerian independence.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair flew in to oil-rich Libya at the start of an African tour for talks with Moamer Kadhafi on a visit expected to see a major energy deal sealed.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a visit to his ancestral homeland of Hungary on Friday as part of a bid to improve ties with central Europe.
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TRIPOLI  - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder met Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi at the start of a trip here seen as further confirmation of the north African state&#39;s return to the international fold, officials said.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to embark on a two-day visit to South Africa at the end of next month, the foreign ministry in Pretoria announced Wednesday.
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The row continues in France over president Sarkozy meeting the Libyan leader. Especially after defense executives vowed to boost the country's arms exports
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy brokers a diplomatic triumph for six Bulgarian medics detained in Libya for the past eight years on murder charges
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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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Presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy, France's most unabashedly pro-American politician, sets off Saturday on a four-day visit to the United States &#151; something of a political gamble at home, where pockets of anger still simmer about Washington's foreign policy.
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French leader Nicolas Sarkozy visits Tripoli to boost EU-Libya ties, amid calls for the re-arrest of six foreign medics.