Topic: Nicolas Sarkozy

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Top U.S. policymakers are declaring victory in Iraq and switching their focus to Afghanistan and Pakistan, where Islamist violence continues to surge following the fall of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

TBILISI, Georgia, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Russian peacekeeping troops have withdrawn from buffer zones around Georgian rebel provinces South Ossetia and Abkhazia, officials said Thursday.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- France pushes to boost Europe's military strength; Thales woos France for UAV sales package; Sarkozy plans equipment boost in Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- This is more than a global financial meltdown: Other major nations around the world this week are following U.S. President George W. Bush's lead in effectively dismantling the very structures of free-market capitalism.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- President Bush finally called for global action to stabilize the global markets, but is anyone still listening?

BERLIN, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The financial crisis has hit Europe harder than expected, with banks all over the continent on the brink of collapse.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Leaders of the four big European economies -- Germany, Britain, France and Italy -- met in Paris Saturday and failed to come up with any kind of common European solution to the financial crisis that is battering their banks.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Syria has long claimed that it is tied to Lebanon in more ways than one. Over the last two weeks this statement has proven to be far more on the money than Syria ever would have imagined -- or hoped for -- as the wave of terrorist attacks that reared its ugly head in Lebanon has now exported itself to Syria.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- From European and Russian leaders came calls for fundamental changes in the post-World War II financial and monetary system dominated by the United States. Hard to get the major players on the same page.

BERLIN, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday her government will guarantee all private bank accounts in a move intended to reassure depositors.