Alain Juppe News
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The French prefer Prime Minister Francois Fillon as a new head of outgoing President Nicolas Sarkozy’s political party, according to an Ifop poll to be published tomorrow in Sud Ouest Dimanche France.
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Almost one in five French voters cast their ballots for National Front leader Marine Le Pen’s call to abandon the euro and turn her country into an anti- immigrant fortress.
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Syria’s opposition is pushing for tougher United Nations measures against the government of President Bashar al-Assad as a cease-fire brokered by UN envoy Kofi Annan crumbles.
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The international community must increase sanctions on the Syrian government, forcing it to accept the United Nations-brokered cease-fire it has flouted, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said.
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Sometime after midnight on a recent Thursday in Damascus, restaurant manager Aziz Asfahani joined friends at the newly opened Bartini lounge bar, where Syria’s elite dine and dance till dawn on tabletops to the thump of patriotic songs.
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France, the U.S. and other countries are showing little confidence in the week-old Syria cease-fire, increasing the pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to halt the violence while aiding his opponents.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Turkey may seek NATO’s support in dealing with Syria as the UN Security Council made clear the Assad regime’s truce violations won’t prevent the deployment of as many as 300 cease-fire observers.
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Syrian government forces pounded towns in the north and the south, as United Nations observers began their mission to monitor a cease-fire that aims to end 13 months of conflict.
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Gunshots that killed the man responsible for the deaths of seven people, including three children at a Jewish school, had barely stopped ringing when candidates in France’s presidential election began flinging charges and countercharges on the case and its handling.
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Mali’s military junta agreed to hand over power to a temporary government that will organize elections, paving the way to lift sanctions that threatened to worsen a food crisis in the West African nation.
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