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  • June 2008

    • Irish Vote Could Make Stew of European Unity

      newser  |  Financial Times (UK)  |  Jun 10, 08 11:00 AM CDT

      Irish Vote Could Make Stew of European Unity

      European Union reformers are aghast at the possibility that Irish voters could derail years of negotiations Thursday with a rejection of the constitution-like Lisbon Treaty, the Financial Times reports. Ireland is alone among the EU's 27 members in offering citizens a referendum on the treaty, which streamlines and consolidates EU power. The treaty must be ratified unanimously to take effect. More »

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      European Union  • Ireland  • Bernard Kouchner  • Treaty of Lisbon

  • April 2008

    • France Bails on Hostage Rescue Mission

      newser  |  BBC  |  Apr 9, 08 5:35 AM CDT

      France Bails on Hostage Rescue Mission

      A French humanitarian team is leaving Colombia after being frustrated in its mission to aid failing hostage Ingrid Betancourt, reports the BBC. The leadership of the FARC rebels, who have held the French-Colombian presidential candidate hostage for six years, refused to allow the team to provide Betancourt with emergency medical aid. French President Nicolas Sarkozy had sent the aid workers after reports that Betancourt was seriously ill. More »

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      France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • Colombia  • FARC  • Ingrid Betancourt  • Bernard Kouchner  • Colombian rebels  • Clara Rojas

  • March 2008

    • Merkel Will Skip Olympics

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 29, 08 7:07 AM CDT

      Merkel Will Skip Olympics

      German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other top German officials won't be going to the Beijing Olympics, the Guardian reports, joining Polish and Czech leaders who have pledged to stay away. But while Polish PM Donald Tusk and Czech President Vaclav Klaus said they'll be boycotting the opening ceremony to protest human rights abuses in Tibet, the Germans said their absence isn't political. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • Germany  • European Union  • Gordon Brown  • Angela Merkel  • boycott  • Bernard Kouchner  • Donald Tusk

    • 'Magic Is Over' for US: French Foreign Minister

      newser  |  International Herald Tribune  |  Mar 13, 08 10:46 AM CDT

      'Magic Is Over' for US: French Foreign Minister

      For Bernard Kouchner, the outspoken French foreign minister, George W. Bush's successor might be able to restore some of America's lost global prestige, but after 8 years "the magic is over." In a conversation with the International Herald Tribune , Kouchner—one of France's most staunchly pro-American politicians—offered a blunt assessment of the US's battered reputation, lamenting, "It will never be as it was before." More »

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      France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • United States  • diplomacy  • Bernard Kouchner  • French foreign minister

  • February 2008
  • January 2008

    • Tutu 'Hopeful' About Kenya Mediation

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jan 4, 08 8:35 AM CST

      Tutu 'Hopeful' About Kenya Mediation

      Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has said he is open to the possibility of a coalition government—if the opposition consents to his terms, Reuters reports. South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu said after a meeting with Kibaki that "there is a great deal of hope" in ongoing talks and that both sides appear willing to negotiate. More »

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      Kenya  • Mwai Kibaki  • Raila Odinga  • Bernard Kouchner  • Desmond Tutu

  • December 2007

    • Sarko, New Squeeze Hit Egypt

      newser  |  BBC  |  Dec 26, 07 9:58 AM CST

      Sarko, New Squeeze Hit Egypt

      Nicolas Sarkozy has flown to Egypt, where the French president will meet with his counterpart Hosni Mubarak after spending a few days on the Nile with new girlfriend Carla Bruni. Paparazzi staked out the airport before the arrival of the divorcé and the supermodel-turned-singer, who flew in on a private jet owned by a French billionaire. More »

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      Nicolas Sarkozy  • Egypt  • Carla Bruni  • Bernard Kouchner  • Hosni Mubarak  • Cairo

  • September 2007

    • French Minister Backs Off Iran War Threat

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Sep 18, 07 3:18 AM CDT

      French Minister Backs Off Iran War Threat

      French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner yesterday backpedaled on comments he'd made threatening war with Iran if it didn't drop development of its nuclear program. "The worst situation would be war, and to avoid the worst, the French position is very clear: negotiate, negotiate, negotiate," he said after criticism from his own government and stinging blasts from Iran. More »

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      Iran  • France  • war  • nuclear program  • Bernard Kouchner

    • French Lefty Makes an Unlikely Hawk

      newser  |  CNN  |  Sep 17, 07 4:52 PM CDT

      French Lefty Makes an Unlikely Hawk

      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

    • France Warns of War with Iran

      newser  |  BBC  |  Sep 17, 07 4:24 AM CDT

      France Warns of War with Iran

      French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner yesterday threatened war with Iran to  halt its nuclear weapons program. France favors negotiations and sanctions but the world should prepare for military action if all else fails, he said in an interview on French TV. Iranian nuclear weapons would pose "a real danger for the whole world," he warned. More »

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      Iran  • France  • United Nations  • European Union  • nuclear weapons  • war  • sanctions  • Bernard Kouchner

  • August 2007

    • French Prez Warns of 'Bombing Iran' Over Nukes

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  Aug 28, 07 4:50 AM CDT

      French Prez Warns of 'Bombing Iran' Over Nukes

      French President Nicolas Sarkozy took a bead on Iran in his first major foreign policy speech yesterday, suggesting that if Iran's nuclear weapons program wasn't halted, bombing could be the only alternative. He called Iran's atomic ambitions "without doubt the most serious crisis that weighs today on the international scene.” More »

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      Iran  • France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • Nouri al-Maliki  • nuclear weapons  • Bernard Kouchner

    • France Eyes Diplomatic Role in Iraq

      newser  |  International Herald Tribune  |  Aug 22, 07 7:50 AM CDT

      France Eyes Diplomatic Role in Iraq

      "Everyone knows the Americans will not be able to get this country out of difficulty alone," the new French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, told a French radio station on his way out of Iraq yesterday. Kouchner 's 3-day visit confirmed that the French see a role for themselves in mediating a political resolution in Iraq.  One possibility is a peace conference that would bring Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds together in France. More »

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      Iraq  • France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • United States  • Lebanon  • Shiite  • diplomacy  • Sunni  • Kurds  • Bernard Kouchner

    • French Minister Visits Iraq, Forges US Bond

      newser  |  BBC  |  Aug 19, 07 5:14 PM CDT

      French Minister Visits Iraq, Forges US Bond

      France tipped a symbolic hat to the US today by sending its foreign minister on a visit to Baghdad. Bernard Kouchner is the first French minister to visit Iraq since the US invasion of 2003 and comes at a time when analysts say that US-French relations are warming. Kouchner, who refused to condemn the US at the war’s outset, called the trip a “message of solidarity” with the struggling Iraqis. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • United States  • Jacques Chirac  • Bernard Kouchner  • Jalal Talabani

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