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Susan G. Komen reverses course, will keep funding Planned Parenthood – CBS News

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:13:22 +0000

Susan G. Komen reverses course, will keep funding Planned Parenthood
CBS News
Three days after pulling its funding for cancer screenings from Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation on Friday apologized for the decision and reversed course. "Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and …
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FRANCE: ‘Extras’ bussed in for Sarkozy publicity stunt

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:43:35 +0000

French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a visit to a social housing building site Thursday to highlight his work on this key election issue – but according to builders at the site, many of the ‘workers’ Sarkozy met on the tour had been bussed in.
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FRANCE: Sarkozy ‘playing politics’ with more jury trials, magistrates claim

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:30:48 +0000

The use of juries in French criminal courts is to be extended from the beginning of January. Magistrates say that they support the greater use of juries, but claim that there is a strong political motivation behind the decision.
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FRANCE: France makes it harder to become French

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:26:39 +0000

France will be making it harder for foreigners to seek French citizenship as of January. Critics say the new requirements, which include tough language tests and allegiance to “French values”, are an electoral ploy that panders to the far right.
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FRANCE: France won’t arrest former war crimes court official

admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:20:50 +0000

France has said on Monday it would not arrest Florence Hartmann, the ex-spokeswoman to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia who has been convicted for disclosing confidential decisions during the trial of Slobodan Milosevic.
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FRANCE: Turkey recalls Paris envoy as lawmakers back genocide bill

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:53:42 +0000

France’s lower house of parliament has approved a bill making it illegal to deny a genocide, including the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks. Turkey, which denies the genocide, has withdrawn its Paris ambassador and frozen military ties.
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FRANCE: Socialists set up watchdog to survey Sarkozy travel costs

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:41:19 +0000

The opposition Socialist Party say President Nicolas Sarkozy may be misusing his official agenda to campaign for re-election, and have launched a monitoring group to survey his travel expenses.
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FRANCE: The National Front and the quest for the Jewish vote

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:15:36 +0000

Less than six months ahead of the presidential and legislative elections, France’s far-right National Front is on a mission to gain respectability among the Jewish electorate despite its traditionally anti-Jewish stance.
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FRANCE: French senate debates allowing foreigners to vote

admin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:11:13 +0000

A French bill that would allow non-EU foreigners to vote in local elections passed its first hurdle Friday when it was adopted by the upper-house Senate. But the bill stands no chance of passing in the lower house, the National Assembly.
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FRANCE: Late general’s ashes spark row in France

admin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:40:37 +0000

A decision by France’s Ministry of Defense to include the ashes of famed General Marcel Bigeard in the Invalides monument in Paris has met with fierce opposition from his detractors.
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