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10/02/2012 - Palestine - Qatar

Abbas meets with Palestinian Leadership to solidify support

Following his appointment as Prime Minister of the Palestinian unity government, President Mahmoud Abbas met with the central committees of Fatah and the PLO on Thursday.

Alain Juppé at the UN Security Council in New York at the end of January
08/02/2012 - France - Syria

France's Juppé calls Syria's promises "manipulation"

France’s Foreign Minister Alain Juppé said Wednesday that President Bashar al-Assad’s promises to Russia to end the violence in Syria were mere manipulation.

05/02/2012 - France - Syria - UN

Sarkozy slams Russia, China for Syria UN veto

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has slammed Russia and China for vetoing a second resolution on Syria and the UN Security Council.

04/02/2012 - France - Turkey

Turkey may have banned dead French soldiers' flight over Armenian genocide law

Turkey may have banned the flight repatriating the bodies of four French soldiers killed in Afghanistan from crossing its air space in retaliation for the Armenian genocide bill recently passed by ...

04/02/2012 - France

French railways hand over WWII dossiers to holocaust museums

France’s state-run railway, the SNCF, has handed over digital copies of its archives for the World War II period to three Holocaust museums.

03/02/2012 - Gaza - Report

Ban Ki-moon's car pelted with shoes and eggs in Gaza

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's car was pelted with shoes, eggs, sand and stones during a visit to Gaza on Thursday.

02/02/2012 - Israel - Report

High level visits to region ahead of Middle East peace talks

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, the head of the World Bank Group Robert Zoellick and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle all made separate visits to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian ...

31/01/2012 - France - Turkey - Armenia

French politicians to seize constitutional court over Armenian genocide bill

A number of politicians on Tuesday formally requested France’s Constitutional Council to examine the planned law which would punish anyone who denies that the 1915 massacre of Armenians by ...

30/01/2012 - France - Syria

France's Juppé seeks United Nations action over Syria

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe heads to New York on Tuesday to press the UN Security Council to take action over what a spokesperson called the Syrian regime's "crimes against ...

27/01/2012 - France - Turkey - Armenia

Armenian couple name baby Sarkozy as genocide bill row rumbles on

An Armenian couple have named their new-born baby Sarkozy as a tribute to the French parliament’s approval of a law making it illegal that genocide of Armenians took place in Turkey in ...

25/01/2012 - Q+A: France - Turkey - Armenia

France's Armenian genocide bill - Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Relations between France and Turkey are in deep trouble thanks to a French bill making it illegal to deny that genocide against Armenians took place during World War I.

24/01/2012 - France - Afghanistan

No proof Afghan army infiltrator behind French troop deaths, says Nato

Nato says it is too early to say if the Taliban were behind Friday’s killing of four French soldiers at a base in eastern Afghanistan.

24/01/2012 - France -Turkey - Armenia

Turkey prepares retaliation against France over Armenian genocide law

Turkey has promised retaliatory measures against France after the Upper House passed a bill by 127 votes to 86 making the denial of the Armenian genocide a crime punishable by up to a year in ...

23/01/2012 - France - Turkey

Turkey vows permanent sanctions as France votes on Armenian genocide bill

French senators are set to vote on a bill on Monday to outlaw denial of the Armenian genocide by Ottoman Turk forces in 1915 despite a threat by Turkey to punish the law with permanent ...

22/01/2012 - France - Afghanistan

Killing of French troops an isolated incident, says Afghan President Karzai

Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai says the killing of four French soldiers by an Afghan army soldier was an "isolated and individual" action and did not represent the anger of the Afghan people.

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