Policymakers at home and abroad failed to see the 2008 crisis as an opportunity to break from the past and imagine the world anew
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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has lost his final bid to avoid a trial on charges of corruption and influence peddling
The UN Human Rights Committee calls on France to review its 2010 law banning women from covering their faces in public
Sarkozy was taken into police custody and investigated in March over allegations of ‘misappropriation of Libyan public funds and passive corruption’
Europe is braced for an election bonanza this that will determine the politics of the increasingly contested campaign to save the single currency.
France voted on Sunday in round one of a presidential ballot, against the backdrop of a feeble economy.
A gunman suspected of killing three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in France has wounded three police officers in a shoot-out during a raid.
A gunman has shot dead at least four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse, days after soldiers were killed in similar shootings in the same area.
The Toulouse prosecutor says a gunman has opened fire in front of a Jewish school in a southwest French city killing several people.
Despite an often fawning portrayal in the Western media, they were the Lady Macbeths.
Greece’s Papandreou has won the backing of his Cabinet to push ahead with a referendum on an EU debt bailout deal. World leaders are not convinced.
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/ 23 October 2011
French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces implacable German opposition to demands to use unlimited European Central Ban funds to fight the debt crisis.
Five international bidders are sniffing around SA’s biggest ever tender: an estimated R1-trillion contract to build six new nuclear reactors by 2030.
You know as a country these days that you are in some kind of financial crisis when Michael Lewis shows up.
Turkey’s prime minister heads to Libya on Friday, a day after the French and British leaders were welcomed for helping to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.
France said on Tuesday that negotiations were under way for the exit of Laurent Gbagbo from Côte d’Ivoire, saying the strife could be over in hours.
It was business as usual as the AU’s two-day summit stuck to its planned schedule, despite the problems in Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan and Côte d’Ivoire.
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/ 25 January 2011
French president says his ministers underestimated "sense of suffocation" among Tunisians under Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
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/ 15 November 2010
Editors say Nicolas Sarkozy is using the French secret service to spy on journalists.
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/ 15 November 2010
French President Nicolas Sarkozy reappointed a trusted ally as prime minister and named new defence and foreign ministers in a Sunday night reshuffle.
Thierry Henry met Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysée palace on Thursday as the president demanded answers over the French team’s humiliating exit.
Piracy, terrorism and climate change get prime billing but business is the linchpin at a summit between France and African leaders on Monday.
Nicolas Sarkozy admitted that France made mistakes during the 1994 genocide but stopped short of apologising during his visit to Rwanda on Thursday.
France’s national anthem blared across the tarmac on as Nicolas Sarkozy made the first visit ever by a French president to Haiti.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the fitness-fanatic French president, was hospitalised on Sunday after he was taken ill during an exercise routine.
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/ 18 October 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was to press George Bush on Saturday on the need for an overhaul of the international financial system.
France this week jolted Europe into establishing common policies on immigration, refugees and asylum, but the move has not been welcomed by all.
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/ 10 February 2008
Chad’s rebels said on Saturday they controlled the centre of the landlocked country and would hold their position in an effort to lure government troops from the capital into an open battle in the desert. A spokesperson for the rebels said they occupied the towns of Mongo and Bitkine in rugged central Chad, about 500km from the capital.
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/ 27 December 2007
Six French aid workers were sentenced to eight years of hard labour each after a court in Chad found them guilty on Wednesday of trying to kidnap 103 children from the African country. The court in the capital N’Djamena handed down its sentence on the fourth day of the trial of six members of the French humanitarian group Zoe’s Ark.