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France, Western allies likely to be mired in Mali for years
French troops backing a Mali government campaign to retake the northern half of the country from Islamic militants have been cheered as liberators since their convoys rolled into historic Timbuktu this week and hundreds of paratroopers dropped from the...Tags: United Nations, Religion and Belief, Terrorism, Africa, Muammar Gaddafi
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Mon Depardieu! Actor in tax spat with French government
PARIS -- Larger-than-life actor Gerard Depardieu says he is giving back his French passport and health card after being criticized for moving to Belgium to avoid taxes. In an angry letter to a French newspaper, Depardieu, 63, lambasted the government...
Tags: Paris (France), Gerard Depardieu, Politics, France, Bernard Arnault
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Gerard Depardieu granted Russian citizenship by Vladimir Putin
Gerard Depardieu now has Russian citizenship, courtesy of President Vladimir Putin, who Thursday delivered on a promise made a couple of weeks ago. Russia's main state-run TV station broadcast an open letter reportedly from the "Green Card" star (via...Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Newspaper and Magazine, Gerard Depardieu, Russia, BBC
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European Union officials accept Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo ceremony
LONDON -- Hailing postwar European reconciliation as “probably the most dramatic example in history to show that war and conflict can be turned so rapidly into peace and cooperation,” Nobel committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland presented the...
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, European Union, Herman Van Rompuy, Politics
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Shootings Induce Avalanche Of Grief, Anger, Compassion
The Hartford CourantA gunman's brutal act in Newtown shattered a sunny December morning, forever changing the lives of many Connecticut families and inducing an international avalanche of horrified grief, anger and compassion. Twenty of the victims were children, most of...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Mexico City, Barack Obama, David Cameron, Shootings
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U.S. diplomats evacuate Central African Republic as rebels advance
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — U.S. diplomats evacuated from the capital of the Central African Republic on Friday, the State Department reported, after a coalition of rebel groups swept across the country in recent days, seizing towns and diamond...
Tags: United Nations, U.S. Military, News Media, Wars and Interventions, Central African Republic
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U.S. could join global gay marriage trend if high court approves
A U.S. Supreme Court decision to review the constitutionality of laws restricting marriage to heterosexual couples has raised hopes among gays and lesbians in the United States that their right to marry might soon be legally recognized, allowing them to...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Civil Rights, Gays and Lesbians
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Famous French attractions could be left in the dark
PARIS -- Is the City of Light about to hit the dimmer switch? Some of the French capital's most celebrated attractions, including the luxury stores of the Champs-Elysées, could be thrown into darkness under a government proposal to pull the plug on...
Tags: Nicolas Sarkozy, Energy Saving, Environmental Issues, France
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Israel's E1 settlement plan draws European backlash
JERUSALEM — Israel is facing an onslaught of European diplomatic pressure over its recent decision to revive a controversial West Bank settlement project known as E1, which critics say could destroy efforts to create a Palestinian state. The...
Tags: Government, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, National Government, West Bank
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France's discomfort with capitalism
Historians note the American alliance with King Louis XVI sustained the American cause during the darkest days of the Revolution. The history is impossible to escape. But for the deal struck in February 1778, General Washington and his Continental...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Personal Income, Elections, Muammar Gaddafi, Barack Obama
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Maurice Herzog dies at 93; French mountaineer
Maurice Herzog, a French mountaineer who became a hero to his country in 1950 when he and a fellow climber became the first men to successfully scale a peak of more than 26,000 feet, has died. He was 93. Herzog, who wrote a best-selling account of his...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), International Olympic Committee, Everest, Mountaineering, Climbing
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Three female Kurdish activists slain in Paris
PARIS -- Three female Kurdish activists were found dead Thursday at an information center for Kurds in Paris, all of them shot in the head in what a French official described as execution-style killings. The victims included Sakine Cansiz, a co-founder...
Tags: Death Penalty, European Union, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ankara (Turkey), Shootings
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