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Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- A strike by French museum workers widened today with the Louvre and Versailles Palace joining a host of other tourist attractions to shut down as employees protested against planned job cuts.
Washington, 3 December (WashingtonTV)—Israeli opposition leader, Tzipi Lvini, discussed Iran’s nuclear program and the Middle East peace process with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on Thursday.
Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni said Thursday she had discussed the need for a quick resumption of Middle East peace talks during her meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Paris - The question of whether France will contribute more troops to operations in Afghanistan remains wide open, reported daily Le Figaro Tuesday, noting that French President Nicolas Sarkozy could reverse himself and back the troop deployment. The...
The Louvre Museum and the royal palace at Versailles were closed Thursday because of a French museum workers' strike that appears to be gathering steam. Frustrated tourists gathered outside the landmark pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre, blocked off by...
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- A possible meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office in London this week has been scrapped, Brown's office said Thursday, amid signs of tension between the two governments.
PARIS — European leaders and top diplomats hailed President Barack Obama's speech defining the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, but few countries were forthcoming Wednesday with pledges of fresh troops.French President Nicolas Sarkozy commended the speech as "courageous, determined and lucid" but stopped short of offering more soldiers from France, the fourth largest contributor to NATO's ...
PARIS (AP) — The royal palace at Versailles is closed to visitors because of a museum workers' strike that has disrupted the Louvre and other French tourist attractions.
Thousands of visitors find famous Paris museums shut by strike
Paris - The Louvre Museum, the most visited museum in the world, was closed Thursday as a strike called by trade unions to demand more state funds and personnel for cultural institutions went into a second day, France-Info radio reported. The Versail...
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Museums and tourist sites across Paris were closed or partially shut today as their workers protested planned job cuts, widening a strike that’s brought shutters down at the modern art Pompidou Center for eight days.
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the dollar drop against the euro is hurting the European economy, and called for the emergence of a “multi-currency” world to end the dominance of the U.S. currency.
Roman Polanski's family has thanked French President Nicolas Sarkozy for his efforts in securing the director's freedom.
France and Rwanda have agreed to restore diplomatic ties, the French president's office said Sunday, three years after relations were severed when a Paris judge accused Rwandan President Paul Kagame of ordering his predecessor's assassination.
Battered by a series of political setbacks, French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday launched his campaign for next year's regional elections and called for unity in his center-right UMP party.
On a gray, drizzly day just made for a Paris museum visit, workers at the city's premier art institutions went on strike Wednesday, leaving tourists out in the cold and some residents worried about the image that France projects.
