Hostages Freed
PAR2000082904 -29 AUGUST 2000 - PARIS, FRANCE: Sonia Wendling, left, next to her sister Christell, arrive at Charles de Gaulle airport. She is one of several French hostages held on the island of Jolo, and freed thanks to intervention by Libya's general Kadhafi. mc/xl/Xavier Lhospice UPI
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PARIS, March 18 (UPI) -- France's Parliament has voted 329-238 in favor of rejoining the military wing of NATO.
PARIS, March 11 (UPI) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday that his country will return to NATO's military command after a 42-year rift.
COLOMBEY-LES-DEUX-EGLISES, France, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy met Saturday in advance of a meeting of euro zone leaders.
WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to reverse more than 40 years of French skepticism and suspicion of U.S. defense policies and develop a more ambitious and comprehensive BMD system than any major European nation has ever dreamed of: The odds against him appear daunting, but he has a lot going for him too.
WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI) -- Is French President Nicolas Sarkozy sincere about re-joining NATO, or is this another European ploy to ease the Americans out?
PARIS, March 12 (UPI) -- U.S. air carrier Continental Airlines should face manslaughter charges over the 2000 Concorde crash in which 113 people died, a French prosecutor said.
PARIS, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A monument to former French President Charles de Gaulle opened to the public Saturday at the French army museum in Paris.
DUBLIN, Ireland, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton displayed symptoms of psychiatric disorders that may have been a key to their genius, a Dublin psychiatrist said.
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