President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered the French government to prepare legislation paving the way for a total ban on the full Islamic veil.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Rwanda on Thursday for a landmark visit aimed at mending ties with Kigali.
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/ 28 January 2010
Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin was cleared on Thursday of being part of a conspiracy to smear Nicolas Sarkozy.
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/ 23 October 2009
Nicolas Sarkozy is finding it much tougher to deal with Washington than he had anticipated and is recalibrating his policies accordingly.
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/ 21 September 2009
Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin assailed Nicolas Sarkozy as he went on trial Monday on charges of plotting to smear his arch-rival.
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/ 21 September 2009
Dominique de Villepin went on trial on Monday, accused of conspiring to smear Nicolas Sarkozy in 2004 and wreck his chances of becoming president.
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/ 14 September 2009
France’s most politically charged trial of the decade begins in a week, but the case is already playing itself out in the court of public opinion.
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/ 14 September 2009
Nicolas Sarkozy is ready to walk out of next week’s G20 summit if no progress is made on curbing bankers’ bonuses, his chief of staff said on Monday.
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/ 8 September 2009
He has been mocked for wearing stacked heels, but now Nicolas Sarkozy is at the centre of a new controversy.
G20 finance ministers will discuss next week how to curb excessive bankers’ pay, officials and analysts said.
Nicolas Sarkozy was to confront Paris bank executives on Tuesday in a bid to convince taxpayers he is serious about cracking down on traders’ bonuses.
President Nicolas Sarkozy left a Paris hospital on Monday after overnight tests gave him a clean bill of health despite his collapse the day before.
Media is everywhere these days, but the question is, can you trust it? How do you know what is real and what is crooked?
Journalists in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia blasted France on Wednesday over President Nicolas Sarkozy’s criticism of the burqa.
Onlookers jeered French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday at the state funeral for Gabon’s President Omar Bongo Ondimba.
World leaders gathered on Wednesday for a summit on tackling the global financial crisis but many were split on the way forward.
Opposition leaders piled pressure on French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday to boost low wages and cap executive bonuses.
The French government has been accused of "Big Brother" tactics over an anti-piracy Bill which aims to punish people who repeatedly download music.
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/ 27 February 2009
A record 205 candidates are in the running for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Institute said on Friday.
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/ 24 February 2009
Abdelaziz Bouteflika is heading for a hollow victory in an election in April because he is ill-suited to the task of tackling youth unemployment.
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/ 13 February 2009
European new cars sales fell 27% in January to the lowest level for 20 years, trade data showed on Friday.
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/ 11 February 2009
The G7 meet in Rome this week to kick off a run of high-profile meetings among leaders wrestling to get recession-hit economies back on their feet.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s controversial cultural revolution of the country’s television industry began on Monday night.
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/ 8 December 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will pay a ”heavy price” for meeting the Dalai Lama, a Chinese state paper said on Monday.
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/ 26 November 2008
Unable to hammer out a plan to fight global warming, Europe has ruined its ambition to lead the world at upcoming climate talks.
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/ 20 November 2008
A top official has been transferred to France in connection with the death of Rwanda’s former president
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/ 30 October 2008
A Nicolas Sarkozy voodoo doll, which became a best-selling cult classic when the president tried to have it banned, is to remain on sale.
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/ 24 October 2008
The Nicolas Sarkozy "voodoo manual" hit the top of internet retailer Amazon’s bestseller list in France on Friday, despite his attempts to ban it.
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/ 21 October 2008
Optimism grew on Tuesday that the global financial crisis was being brought under control as stock markets surged.
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/ 16 October 2008
Global stock markets traded mixed on Thursday amid recession fears as Wall Street rose and Europe fell for a second day running.
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/ 16 October 2008
European Union leaders on Thursday stuck to a December deadline for reaching a final deal on fighting climate change.
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/ 13 October 2008
Fifteen European leaders closed in Sunday on a joint strategy to end the haemorrhaging of market confidence.