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The aristocratic habits of France's rulers don't die easily, even in Sarkozy's overexposed reign, but they are steadily being eroded No tumbrils have appeared in Paris's Place de la Concorde, but a revolution may be under way...
German chancellor Angela Merkel The German and French leaders have thrown their backing behind a climate change agreement in Copenhagen. Only weeks ahead of the World Climate Conference in Copenhagen, German chancellor Angela...
“...the fall of the Berlin Wall serves for us all today as a call to fight oppression and to tear down all the walls that still separate the world, that divide cities, regions and nations. This is the message that a unified...
You know it's time to worry when grief escalates to that eccentric condition of invoking a moral imperative. We had travelled that far by Thursday lunchtime. FIFA, having already pulled the stroke of play-off seedings, surely...
PAPEETE, French Polynesia, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- China's top political advisor, Jia Qinglin, met with French High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia Adolphe Colrat here on Friday. Jia, chairman of the National...
EVERYBODY quotes a Frenchman these days. It was Talleyrand who said of the Bourbons that "they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing". Dr Noel Browne told me 30-odd years ago that Fianna Fail "understand nothing about...
The French government unveiled a $52 billion national debt policy aimed at enhancing France's long-term development. A commission led by former prime ministers Alain Juppe and Michel Rocard on Thursday submitted a report to...
Updated on Saturday, November 21, 2009, 10:28 IST Tags:Amazon, Climate Brasilia: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is calling a meeting of eight Amazon countries next week to forge a common stand ahead of next...
Advisor to Syrian president reveals fragments of his meeting with Sarkozy in Paris, says Assad demanded 'return of all Syrian land' as starter for peace talks despite Netanyahu's view that this should be end result
Julien Toyer and John O'Donnell, On 18:53 GMT, Friday 20 November 2009 * Former foreign minister expected to take powerful post * Source says deal is 99 percent sure * Commission says no deal, new line-up not finalised (Adds...
