Noriega's Next Stop: France?
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Analysis: Panama's ex-dictator is the only recognized prisoner of war in the world and is trying to use the Geneva Convention to his advantage.
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Justice Department lawyers asked a federal court Tuesday to extradite former Panamanian President Manuel Noriega to France when his U.S. prison term ends later this summer.
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LOS ANGELES -- Former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega will be extradited to France to serve a 10-year money-laundering sentence upon his release from federal jail in Florida this fall, according to US Justice Department papers filed in court yesterday. France convicted and sentenced Noriega in absentia in 1999. He was charged with unlawfully depositing millions in drug money in several ...
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PARIS Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is hoping to improve relations between the U-S and France.
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A federal judge in Miami today approved the extradition of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to France, where he faces a 10-year sentence on a conviction in absentia on money-laundering charges.
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An unlikely icon is at the center of President Sarkozy's latest problem with some parts of the public
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A federal judge is due to rule today on whether former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega should be returned to Panama or extradited to France.
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The sight of the new French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, jogging -- often wearing his favorite NYPD T-shirt -- has fired up a tempest in a Reebok in France and Britain this summer. Sarkozy's running is an un-French, right-wing conspiracy, suggests Paris' left-wing newspaper LibÃÂ©ration. In response,...
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French President Jacques Chirac: on his way out figures among the top &#x2019;euro-saures&#x2019; who, in accordance with the laws of evolution, must give way to a new kind of leader.Comment
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"I'm worried about the growing attacks that France is deploying against its European allies, against the Germans, the Luxembourgers, against all of the European countries."  France faces thinly concealed and growing frustration from Paris' European partners, irked at President Nicolas Sarkozy's strident position towards EU spending limits and attacks on the ECB. via Raw Story
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A federal judge ruled against Manuel Noriega for a second time Friday, concluding that the former Panamanian dictator could be extradited to France to face trial on money laundering charges, but Noriega's attorney immediately filed notice that he would appeal.
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A U.S. federal judge on Friday refused to block the extradition of deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to France after his long prison sentence in Florida ends on Sunday.
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PARIS, Aug 11  (IPS) - France and the United States have begun a new race  to compete for favours with  undemocratic regimes in Africa. The  competition is growing particularly in the oil-  rich North and  West Africa.
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Lawyers for former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega asked a federal judge Monday to block his extradition to France and order his return to his home country when he leaves a U.S. prison in September.
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Creating a defence and aerospace "industrial champion" centered on France may be impossible for Nicolas Sarkozy to engineer during his last days as finance minister, as political considerations cloud the ...
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MIAMI, Aug. 28 -- Wearing a crisp military uniform, former Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega appeared before a federal magistrate Tuesday, asking that he be allowed to return next month to the country he ruled and menaced in the 1980s.
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Right wing French President Nicolas Sarkozy, despite an unexpected narrowing in his party&#39;s parliamentary majority, plans to move fast to overhaul the economy, with the deficit-ridden health care system a primary target.