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Memphis Commercial Appeal - Fri Nov 20, 2:33 pm ET
Recently, my students and their parents and I took a trip to Europe.We visited Paris, Avignon, Nîmes and Carcassonne in France and Barcelona, Spain. The highlights of the trip include visits to the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame, Versailles palace and the catacombs in Paris.We also visited some Roman ruins in Nîmes, including a Roman amphitheater where gladiators once fought.In Barcelona ...
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AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 4:52 am ET
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is holding talks aimed at deepening business and financial cooperation with France.
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UPI - Wed Nov 25, 3:32 pm ET
LONDON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Carla Bruni, a singer and model as well as the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, confirmed she has landed a role in Woody Allen's upcoming film.
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US News & World Report - 50 minutes ago
The fund would provide billions in aid to poor nations to help them reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 9:40 pm ET
Blessed by the privilege of wealth, birth or both, 24 teenage girls on Saturday descend on Paris' debutantes ball, an aristocratic tradition that survived France's guillotining of royalty over 200 years ago.
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Bloomberg - Sat Nov 21, 11:51 am ET
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s approval rating fell in November close to the lowest since his 2007 election, an Ifop poll for French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche showed.
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FSView - Thu Nov 26, 3:09 am ET
The French are well known for the Eiffel Tower, the Moulin Rouge and the theatrical art of mime (though it originated in Greece), but for the fashionistas who can tell Marc Jacobs from Chloe, France is about Chanel.
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Nov 27, 11:26 am ET
Brussels - Analysts placed Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel in the winning camp Friday, after the leaders of France and Germany secured two of the most influential posts in the new European Commission. But other European Union heavyweights - among t...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 2:51 pm ET
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew to France on Thursday to pursue strategic military and energy goals that have raised concerns among states that were once under the grip of the Kremlin.
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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Fri Nov 27, 5:03 am ET
RAMBOUILLET, France - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is holding talks aimed at deepening business and financial cooperation with France. The two countries are seeking closer ties in the energy, automotive, transportation, and pharmaceutical sectors among others.
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Bloomberg - Sun Nov 22, 10:40 am ET
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will also go to the summit, Michael Helbo , a spokesman for Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen , said today by phone. More leaders will confirm their attendance, Helbo said.
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New York Times - Fri Nov 27, 3:35 pm ET
The agreements came at a meeting that Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin described as “breakthrough” as far as economic ties between the two countries.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Nov 24, 9:12 am ET
Paris - She is young, black, strikingly attractive and France's most popular politician - but perhaps Sports Minister Rama Yade's most eye-catching feature is that she repeatedly says no to President Nicolas Sark...
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Mid-Hudson News - Thu Nov 19, 6:33 am ET
KINGSTON – Could the Walkway Over the Hudson be as much of a draw to the Hudson Valley as the Eiffel Tower is to Paris? Walkway Chairman Fred Schaeffer believes it could.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 12:32 pm ET
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won another victory for his aggressive energy diplomacy strategy Friday, signing a deal bringing French investment to a pipeline project.