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  • May 2008

    • Gay Paris Mayor Sets Sights on Presidency

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  May 22, 08 12:44 PM CDT

      Gay Paris Mayor Sets Sights on Presidency

      (Newser) - The battle is on for the leadership of France's opposition Socialist Party, and a man who says the nation is ready for a gay president is the surprise leader, the Telegraph reports. Bertrand Delanoë, the popular mayor of Paris, is the early favorite, outpolling Ségolène Royal, who lost last year's election to Nicolas Sarkozy.  More »

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      France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • Paris  • homosexuality  • Socialist Party  • Segolene Royal  • gays  • Bertrand Delanoe

  • March 2008
  • December 2007

    • Ségolène Royal Blasts Ex-Lover in New Book

      Times (UK)  |  Dec 4, 07 9:43 AM CST

      Ségolène Royal Blasts Ex-Lover in New Book

      (Newser) - A new book by Ségolène Royal hits stores in France today, writes the Times of London, and the unsuccessful presidential candidate apologizes for nothing in a fierce, at times vengeful 330 pages. Royal directs much of the blame for her defeat at her own Socialist party and particularly François Hollande, her ex-partner and the party chairman, who she says let her sink. More »

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      France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • Socialist Party  • Segolene Royal  • Francois Hollande

  • October 2007
  • September 2007

    • French Lefty Makes an Unlikely Hawk

      CNN  |  Sep 17, 07 4:52 PM CDT

      French Lefty Makes an Unlikely Hawk

      (Newser) - The founder of Doctors Without Borders might seem a peculiar mouthpiece for the new law-and-order regime of Nicolas Sarkozy, but Bernard Kouchner actually fits right in with France’s more muscular foreign policy tone. The surprise choice for foreign minister,  Kouchner is an anomaly, a Socialist who supports the Iraq war, CNN reports in a profile of the man Boutros Boutros-Ghali once called "an unguided missile." More »

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      Iraq war  • Iran  • France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • United States  • Bernard Kouchner  • Socialist Party  • Doctors Without Borders

    • Royal, Now Solo, Comes Back to Politics

      Times (UK)  |  Sep 7, 07 4:47 PM CDT

      Royal, Now Solo, Comes Back to Politics

      (Newser) - Defeated for the French presidency and newly single, Ségolène Royal is relaunching her political career with a tell-all in one of the country's mass-market celebrity mags. And not just any celebrity mag: She's on the cover of Paris Match , employer of the other woman in her relationship with François Hollande, the London Times reports. More »

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      France  • Socialist Party  • Segolene Royal  • Paris Match  • Francois Hollande

  • August 2007

    • Fires Are 'National Humiliation'

      BBC  |  Aug 29, 07 5:21 PM CDT

      Fires Are 'National Humiliation'

      (Newser) - Firefighters in Greece said today they have tamed the wildfires that have ravaged the countryside, the BBC reports, but the political tempest over the handling of the crisis is just heating up. As protesters demonstrated in Athens against the government, crews said the fires that have claimed 63 lives are “generally receding” but admitted that some blazes continued. More »

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      wildfires  • firefighters  • Greece  • Socialist Party  • Athens  • Peloponnese  • Greece fires  • Costas Karamanlis

  • June 2007

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