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79 articles tagged "France"
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June 10, 2008, 1:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
Nicolas Sarkozy arrived Saturday, June 7, with a large delegation including prime minister Francois Fillon and heads of government and opposition parties.
In an interview with Lebanese dailies he remarked: "I had said ... that I would resume contacts with Syria only when positive, concrete developments occurred in Lebanon with a ... 
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April 15, 2008, 1:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's shipping correspondent reports that the CMA-CGM company, owners of the luxury yacht Le Ponant seized in Somali waters a week ago, did not deny paying ransom for the release of the 32-member crew and yacht. At the same time, the elite French GIGN force was able to ...
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April 11, 2008, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's shipping correspondent reveals that the pirates who seized the French Le Ponant luxury yacht Friday in international waters off Somalia and took its 32-man crew hostage, headed south Monday, April 7. They are moored on the Indian Ocean shore of the semi-autonomous Somali province of Puntland, near ...
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March 27, 2008, 11:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
French president Nicolas Sarkozy was addressing a joint session of the British parliament on a state visit to the United Kingdom Wednesday, March 26. He went on to pledge more French troops to NATO forces fighting in Afghanistan, declaring: We cannot afford to see the Taliban and al Qaeda return ...
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February 29, 2008, 10:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report exclusively that the first Persian Gulf exercise without the US in many years began Feb. 24. It will last ten days. It is also the first time the United Arab Emirates and France have invoked their 19-year old military pact.
While Iran is not ... 
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January 1, 2008, 8:33 AM (GMT+02:00)
Aftr talks with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, French president Nicolas Sarkozy said: "I have ordered by team to suspend diplomatic relations with Syria until we see Syria cooperating in the presidential election in Lebanon."
Parliament postponed the vote Saturday for the 11th time over the intransigence of the ... 
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November 5, 2007, 11:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
French defense minister Herve Morin said Monday, Oct. 29, he has information that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. He thus publicly contradicted remarks made by IAEA director Mohammed ElBaradai that there is no such evidence.
debkafile's sources report that president Nicolas Sarkozy plans a state visit to Jerusalem in ... 
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September 20, 2007, 11:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a series of press, radio and TV interviews, Sunday, Sept. 16, Bernard Kouchner also said he had advised large French companies not to respond to tenders issued by Tehran. debkafile adds: France thus joined the economic sanctions imposed by the US, Britain, Japan and Germany on Iran ...
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September 3, 2007, 9:09 AM (GMT+02:00)
Addressing 180 French diplomats Monday, Aug. 27, French president Nicolas Sarkozy said a nuclear-armed Iran would be unacceptable and the world must tighten sanctions while offering Tehran incentives to halt weapons development. "This initiative is the only one that can enable us to escape an alternative that I say is ...
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May 23, 2007, 4:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
The concept of a nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable, says Nicolas Sarkozy in Berlin interview
In his first comment as French president on the standoff over Tehran's nuclear program, Sarkozy said: A nuclear Iran "would free the way for an arms race in the region and directly threaten Israel and southeastern Europe," ... 
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April 29, 2007, 1:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
The right-centre contender Nicolas Sarcozy has a better than good chance of winning France's presidential runoff on May 6, after his 31% vote in the first round topped the 26% gained by his leading rival, the Socialist Segolene Royal.
debkafile's counter-terror sources report: The countdown has begun at ...
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April 20, 2007, 1:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
The latest polls show one-third of French voters still undecided, four days before Sunday's first round of voting. Center-right Nicolas Sarkozy leads marginally with 29% followed by Socialist Segolene Royal's 25%. The centrist candidate Francois Bayrou is down to 15%. There is every chance of a runoff scheduled for May ...
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February 5, 2007, 4:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Last week, French president Jacques Chirac said he was not concerned about the danger of Iran having "...one or perhaps a second bomb..." In a statement he retracted a day later, he said it would be an act of self-destruction for Iran to use a nuclear weapon against another country. ...
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July 28, 2005, 12:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
French president Jacques Chirac lavished brilliant fanfare and ceremonial warmth on a rare visitor to Paris, Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, when he arrived Wednesday, July 28, on a state visit to France. The ice-breaking symbolism was just that, no more than a thin veneer over the true state of ...
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November 9, 2004, 10:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
On Monday, November 8, it looked as though after ten days, the brawl within the Palestinian leadership over Yasser Arafat's body and ill-gotten fortune might be running out of mind-boggling maneuvers, when French president Jacques Chirac stepped in. Whereas until now, he had insisted on the whole mess being removed ...
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November 7, 2004, 12:42 AM (GMT+02:00)
French president Jacques Chirac's patience with the Palestinians' desperate maneuvers to cover up Yasser Arafat's demise has run out. debkafile's Paris and Washington sources reveal exclusively that Friday, November 5, exactly a week after Arafat was admitted to the Percy military hospital near Paris, the French president put ...
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November 6, 2004, 1:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
From the moment on Thursday, November 4, when a French official stood outside Percy military hospital and solemnly declared "Mr. Arafat is not dead," preparations rushed forward for his funeral. The immediate outcome was a split that rent the Palestinian leadership and Arafat's associates into two camps. Jihad Islami, Hamas, ...
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October 29, 2004, 3:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
The first winter rain bucketed down mixed with hailstones as two Jordanian helicopters carried the seriously ill Yasser Arafat out of Ramallah early Friday, October 29. Within an hour, he was out of the Middle East aboard a French presidential aircraft fitted out as an ambulance with life-support systems that ...
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October 3, 2004, 10:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
US military action is about to intensify in the wake of the declared US-Iraqi government vow to take over Iraq's rebel-held points by the end of October. The final preparations brought General John Abizaid, Iraq war and global anti-terror campaign commander, to Baqouba last week on an unannounced visit. According ...
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