France Hits Back Over Iraq Sanctions Claims
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Paris will deliver confidential documents to U.N. investigators to refute charges in a report published on a CIA Web site that French firms abused the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq, officials said on Monday.
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PARIS : The accusations made in an official US report that French businessmen and politicians received bribes from Saddam Hussein in order to influence government policy in Iraq are &quot;unverified,&quot; the French foreign ministry said.
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Luxembourg - France had persuaded fellow euro zone countries that joint action was needed to temper the economic impact of high oil prices, French finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday, but it has taken flak from partners for acting unilaterally
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France will set no precondition for the international conference on Iraq scheduled on Nov. 22-23 in Egypt, French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier declared Monday on French television news channel LCI.
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France has criticized unofficial negotiators for complicating release efforts for two French hostages held in Iraq, the BBC reported Saturday.
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French President Jacques Chirac began a visit to Britain Thursday overshadowed by his withering accusations against Washington and London of endangering the world by invading Iraq.
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President Chirac warns French journalists against going to Iraq, two days after a reporter disappeared in Baghdad.
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Muslim leaders in France on Sunday condemned the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq and said the government should not capitulate to militant demands to revoke a law that bans the wearing of Islamic head scarves in schools.
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France criticized two self-appointed mediators Saturday for interfering in efforts to secure the release of two French hostages in Iraq.
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French President Jacques Chirac, an outspoken critic of the U.S.-led Iraq war, sought to smooth relations with Iraq on Friday by inviting its president to Paris and denying he had snubbed Baghdad's prime minister.
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France's foreign minister warned Sunday that the world should prepare for war if Iran obtains nuclear weapons and said European leaders were considering their own economic sanctions against the Islamic country.
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The French foreign ministry declared Thursday the accusations made by the chief US weapon inspector in Iraq Charles Duelfer that Frenchmen took bribes in Iraq were not verified
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By Stephen Castle in Brussels and Andrew Buncombe in Washington. Moves to improve the EU&#39;s fractious and often testy relations with Washington were undermined yesterday by a fresh Anglo-French clash over Iraq
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France vowed Monday to press ahead with a controversial law banning Islamic head scarves in schools, despite demands by militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq that Paris revoke the ...
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PARIS: France has pledged not to yield to Iraqi kidnappers who have taken two journalists hostage and are demanding the repeal of a law banning Islamic headscarves in state schools.
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The French president tries to defuse a row over a failed attempt to free two journalists held in Iraq.
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France criticized two self-appointed  mediators Saturday for interfering in efforts to secure the  release of two French hostages in Iraq.