Francois Hollande News
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ITV Plc, owner of the U.K.’s biggest commercial TV station, suffered a Twitter account hack today with postings attributed to the “Syrian Electronic Army,” a name also used last week when The Financial Times’s social media accounts were infiltrated with links to war atrocity videos.
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Continued threats from Africa and the Middle East at a time when the U.S. is pulling back from its engagements led to France’s decision to spare its military from spending cuts, French President Francois Hollande said.
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French President Francois Hollande lauded the “courage” of Germany’s Social Democrats to cut benefits and scale back job protection a decade ago, crediting the policies for buoying the country’s labor market.
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A regional leader of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union said she’s worried about a “problematic” relationship with France because both nations remain the hub of the European Union.
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Austerity is out after the euro-area recession extended to a sixth quarter. Stimulus isn’t yet in.
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Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook provided a figure to Congress on Tuesday that U.S. companies rarely disclose: its federal tax bill. Apple paid $6 billion last year -- a rate of 30.5 percent.
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An attack with a knife and cleaver that left one man described as a British soldier dead in southeast London struck at the heart of an area that’s become the center of terrorism trials in the U.K.
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Gerard Depardieu, the French actor just awarded Russian citizenship, praised his “special relationship” with Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov as he started filming a movie in the mainly Muslim Russian region.
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Credit downgrades, recession and President Francois Hollande’s gaping budget shortfall have done little to prevent French bonds from outshining gold.
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European Union leaders struggling to find a consensus on how to overcome the debt crisis and revive economic growth will use a summit meeting this week to focus on fighting tax evasion and on the bloc’s energy policy.
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