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4 hrs ago | News Observer

World leaders seek a global solution

The United States and Britain appear to be converging on a common solution for the financial chaos sweeping the world, one day before a crucial meeting of financial leaders begins in Washington that the White ...

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8 hrs ago | Los Angeles Times

Le Clezio of France wins Nobel prize

PARIS -- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, a globe-trotting French author of books exploring indigenous and nomadic cultures in Latin America, Africa and Asia, on Thursday won the Nobel Prize in literature.

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Related Topix: France Travel, Travel, Arts, Literature, South Korea, New York, World News

13 hrs ago | Motor Trend

France Gives $549 Million in Hybrid and Electric Car R&D Funding to Automakers

French president Nicolas Sarkozy approved a bill today giving automakers 400 million euros in government funding over the course of four years.

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Thu Oct 09, 2008

hosted Reuters | Reuters

Sarkozy leads calls for more joint EU action

By Crispian Balmer and James Mackenzie

EVIAN, France (Reuters) - The leaders of France and Britain led calls on Wednesday for more joint action to combat the global financial crisis after criticism that divisions have hampered Europe's response.

Simultaneous interest rate cuts by six central banks, including the European Central Bank, failed to revive world stock markets that have plunged on fears of a global recession.

But French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose country holds the European Union presidency, said such a unified response would boost the economy and the European Union was also discussing joint action.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev calls for Europe to freeze out US

The Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, has called on European leaders to create a new world order that minimises the role of the US.

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Related Topix: Dmitriy Anatolyevich Medvedev, World News, Asia, Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, Vladimir Putin, Afghanistan

Business Report

G8 considers summit on global financial crisis

France has made a formal proposal to Japan and other Group of Eight countries to hold an emergency G8 summit meeting to deal with the financial crisis, Japan's Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday.

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Charlotte.com

Belgium, France, Luxembourg to cover Dexia loans

A man leaves a branch of Dexia bank in Brussels Tuesday Oct. 7, 2008. The French and Belgian governments have appointed a former aide to French President Nicolas Sarkozy as the new CEO of bailed-out lender ...

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The Victoria Advocate

Laureates: Financial crisis may hit AIDS funding

Photo Credit: AP Photo Winners of the Nobel Prize of medicine French scientists Luc Montagnier, left, and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, left, shake hands after their meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at ...

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Wed Oct 08, 2008

The Financial Mirror

ECB's Noyer says listed firms, French banks solid

Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer said on Tuesday no French bank was close to bankruptcy and there was no reason for stock markets to collapse since the companies listed on them are solid.

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XtraMSN Real Estate

Central banks unleash rate cut offensive

Major central banks have launched coordinated interest rate cuts in a new gamble to counter the global financial crisis but failed to quell panic on global stock markets.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Europe, World News, Germany

Market Watch

BNP executive to lead Dexia, ex-Belgian PM to be chairman

Belgium Prime Minister Yves Leterme announced the move after convening an emergency Cabinet meeting early in the morning.

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Daily Mail

Finance chiefs in crisis talks as Europe descends into 'every country for itself' shambles

European Union finance ministers will meet in Luxembourg for emergency talks today as a so-called united front to deal with the economic crisis descended into shambles as countries propped up their own ...

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Angela Merkel, Spain

Journal Gazette

Bush talks with European leaders on crisis

President Bush reached out to European leaders on Tuesday to urge coordination on efforts to solve the financial crisis spreading around the globe.

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Related Topix: George Bush, US News, Europe, Italy, World News, Silvio Berlusconi, Canada

Tue Oct 07, 2008

International Herald Tribune

Major gunrunning and graft trial opens in Paris

PARIS : The son of a former French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and a tycoon with ties to Arizona's jet set were among the headliners as 42 defendants went on trial in Paris, accused in a worldwide ...

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Related Topix: Scottsdale, AZ, Business News

EUobserver.com

Sarkozy pushes Barroso to kill internet piracy decision

The European Commission has rejected a request from the French president that commission head Barroso work to overturn the European Parliament's decision banning the cutting of internet access to websurfers who ...

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BBC Europe Edition

Former French PM could face trial

French prosecutors have called for former PM Dominique de Villepin to face trial over an alleged plot to smear President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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Related Topix: France, Europe, World News

The News

PM seeks French help in nuclear technology

Tuesday, October 07, 2008 By Asim Yasin ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday welcomed the French government's statement that every country has the right to use nuclear energy for peaceful ...

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Related Topix: Nuclear Energy, World News, Pakistan, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, Canada

Gulf Daily News

Markets crash

NEW YORK: Governments and central banks around the world grasped at measures to contain the fast-spreading financial crisis yesterday but global stocks still plummeted as investors bet a recession was ...

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Investment Banking, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Financial Services, Investment Services

Mon Oct 06, 2008

MarketWatch

Lack of EU cooperation worsens turmoil: economists

Even a watered-down pledge by the European Union's top leaders to "coordinate" individual efforts to shore up the troubled banking sector proved overly ambitious, undercutting the euro and exacerbating losses ...

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Angela Merkel, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy

News.com.au

'Angolagate' trial opens in France

A PRESIDENT'S son, a thriller writer and a former interior minister were among members of the French elite who went on trial in Paris today for illegal arms sales to Africa in a high-profile case dubbed ...

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Related Topix: World News, Angola, Africa

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