France Reaches Out to Israel
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Barely two weeks after its VIP treatment for a dying Yasser Arafat, France reached out to Israel on Wednesday, hosting a delegation of Israeli economic officials.
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France start their World Cup qualifying campaign against Israel in Paris on Saturday badly needing victory to put their ignominious Euro 2004 exit behind them.
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France agreed on Thursday to a Palestinian request to let Yasser Arafat be treated in a French hospital and will send a plane to collect the ailing Palestinian leader, a presidential spokesperson said.
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Lebanon's political groups are meeting in France to try to end a prolonged political crisis gripping the nation.
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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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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier vows to fight  mounting anti-Semitism in his country while visiting Israel.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin declared Sunday that &quot;France will be extremely severe against those who perpetrate anti-semitism,&quot; after visiting the Jewish social
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France last night dispatched its foreign minister, Michel Barnier, to the Middle East in an attempt to save the lives of two journalists kidnapped by Iraqi militants who have demanded that Paris revokes its ban on Islamic headscarves in schools.
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The foreign ministers of France, Italy,  Spain and seven other European states called on Monday for an  international conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict  and said Israel should make more concessions for peace.
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France Thursday expressed support for a planned conference on the Middle East to be held early next year in London, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier saying it is vital to help the Palestinian Authority to ...
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France's president offered Saudi Arabia help in exploring a possible civilian nuclear energy program as the French leader began a visit to the oil-rich kingdom on Sunday.
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PARIS -- The foreign ministers of Israel and Morocco held their first publicly disclosed talks in years yesterday, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the heart of the discussion.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier vowed a zero tolerance policy towards anti-semitism as he visited a memorial to French Jews killed in the Holocaust at the start of a fence-mending trip to Israel.
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Israel has offered to share its experience in combating militant groups with Russia as both sides call for closer cooperation in fighting terrorism.
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France and Jordan want to work &quot;hand-in-hand&quot; to help resolve crises in the Middle East, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday following talks with King Abdullah II.
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Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom urged France to back up its strong words against anti-Semitism with vigorous action in a bid to curb a worrying wave of attacks on Jews.
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Top Palestinians are to meet the French president and government ministers in a bid to see their ailing leader, Yasser Arafat, who is in hospital in Paris.