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/ 14 November 2003
Three thousand volunteers were in Paris this week to attend the European Social Forum, the anti-globalisation movement’s combustion chamber for alternative political and social ideas.
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/ 31 October 2003
French President Jacques Chirac ended two days of intense but fruitless talks with France’s main political leaders this week still facing one of the most painful dilemmas of his long political career: whether or not to call a referendum to ratify Europe’s new Constitution.
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/ 1 September 2003
Libya has reached an agreement with France on compensation for the 1989 bombing of a French airliner, says Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi, adding that the deal should allow the Lockerbie case to be closed, and that it marked a fresh start in relations with the West.
A Paris investigating magistrate has overruled a senior public prosecutor and set up a formal inquiry into the £1,4-million grocery bill claimed by President Jacques Chirac and his wife during eight of the 18 years that the president spent as mayor of the French capital.
Leading French politicians, apparently seeking to rebuild bridges with Washington, warned in the first week of April against mounting anti-Americanism in France and stressed that the United States remained one of the country’s most valued allies.
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/ 22 January 2003
Both sides in Côte d’Ivoire’s four-month civil war said they believed peace talks that started this week could end the conflict.. ”I am optimistic. I think we will find solutions and what we hope is that everyone is flexible so that we arrive at a negotiated political solution,” said Guillaume Soro.
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/ 5 November 2002
In the red-light Rue Saint-Denis, a seedy Paris street lined with neon peep-shows and bulging women in bustiers and fishnet stockings, Angelique, a middle-aged prostitute from French Guyana, was fuming.
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/ 28 September 2002
Diplomats from the ”big five” powers, which call the shots at the United Nations, are bracing themselves for a fresh round of intensive negotiations on Iraq.
when the US tables its draft resolution at the Security Council, the doors will close again as diplomats work round the clock to agree a final text.
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/ 17 September 2002
April 11 2002. About 10.20am. A coach full of German tourists is bumping down the road that leads to the ancient El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba. Around the corner, in a narrow, cobbled lane that runs alongside, an old Iveco tanker truck is waiting, driver inside.
JEAN-MARIE le Pen’s foray into the heart of Europe collapsed into chaos and recriminations this week after he was heckled by MEPs and taunted by anti-fascist demonstrators before expounding his views