PARIS, Nov 23, 2006 (AFP)
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PARIS, Nov 23, 2006 (AFP)
French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy held breakfast talks with Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin Thursday, as the centre-right sought to patch up a bitter feud that is damaging its campaign for upcoming elections.
During a half-hour meeting at Villepin's official residence, Sarkozy briefed the prime minister on a compromise agreement reached late Wednesday on the modalities for selecting the ruling Union for a Popular Movement's (UMP) offficial candidate at the April ballot. |
By John Lichfield in Paris
Published: 24 November 2006 President Jacques Chirac has convinced himself that he is the only politician on the French right who can defeat the Socialist candidate, Ségolène Royal, in next year's presidential election.
Although he has not yet decided whether to run for a third term,M. Chirac, who is 74 next week, believes that only a "grandfather figure" can take on and deflate the pretensions of the "mother figure", Mme Royal. |
AFP
24 Nov 06 Rwanda has recalled its ambassador to France and said it might break off diplomatic ties after a French judge said the Rwandan president and nine aides should be prosecuted over the death of his predecessor, the event that sparked the 1994 genocide.
A day after 25,000 people rallied in Kigali to denounce France, the judge and alleged French complicity in the genocide, Rwanda's foreign minister announced the move, accusing Paris of trying to destroy the government. |
PARIS, Nov 24, 2006 (AFP)
A French police officer - a black man in plain clothes - shot dead a Paris-Saint Germain football fan after being turned on by a mob during racist violence that followed the team's defeat by Israeli side Hapoel Tel-Aviv.
Antoine Granomort, who was in custody Friday morning, fired his handgun into a threatening crowd near the Parc des Princes stadium late Thursday after seeking to defend a French fan of the Israeli club from attack, police and witnesses said. |
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