Crystal balls are dangerous objects in the Middle East. Mine have been broken several times. But there’s no reason why Donald Trump should be immune from the fate of so […]
By AFP – Mar 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this photo taken on Thursday, fighters fire weapons against the Daesh terror group in the Hawari area, south-west of the city of Benghazi, Libya (AP photo) WASHINGTON — In a rare public rebuke of two of Washington’s closest allies, […]
France24. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and president-elect François Hollande appeared side by side in Paris on Tuesday for the first time since the pre-election debate on May 2 to commemorate the end of the Second World War. After a bitter election that culminated with the victory of the Socialist Hollande […]
Rfi. ince 1958 only Giscard d’Estaing has failed to win a second term, apart from Georges Pompidou who he died in office. Sarkozy, whose popularity slumped while he was in office, staged a determined comeback campaign, reducing Hollande’s lead over him in the polls. But he lost when it counted […]
Credit: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar He posed in spectacular grandeur as the neo-imperial Liberator of Libya – only a few years after Colonel Muammar Gaddafi helped finance his 2007 election campaign with a cool US$65 million. Profiting from a mysterious alliance between the Holy Ghost and an African chambermaid […]
Rfi France. Sarkozy has made no secret of chasing the more than six million voters who picked far-right. His speeches have concentrated on race, Islam and law and order, themes dear to her Front National (FN).candidate Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s first round of France’s presidential poll.On Thursday the Sarkozy camp asserted […]
By AGENCIES ARABBEWS PARIS/TRIPOLI: Muammar Qaddafi’s regime agreed to fund French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign to the tune of 50 million euros, a news website reported yesterday, publishing […]
“France is the worst place in Europe to be a Muslim, because the government is so against us. And if Nicolas Sarkozy is re-elected, it can only get worse.” Ahead […]
France 24. REUTERS – French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday he would fight with everything he has to win a second term but will bow out of politics if he loses an April-May election. Sarkozy, who is badly lagging Socialist challenger Francois Hollande in opinion polls six weeks before the […]
Credit: Spiegel International-Germany. Nicolas Sarkozy is unpopular because he has behaved more like an upstart than a president. He’s trying to get re-elected,claiming to have changed, but it’s probably too late. The French people prefer his Socialist opponent François Hollande,who would bring change to France and upheaval to Europe. By Mathieu […]
Aakanksha Gupta, a 16-year-old Indian girl who studies in Class 11 in Pathways School, Noida, wrote the letter as part of an essay-writing competition to French president Nicolas Sarkozy, criticising the burqa ban in his country. It was sent to the French premier, who decided to meet her to discuss the issue in detail. The contest required […]