Israeli television reports Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is clinically dead.Â
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The report quoted French sources and said doctors are debating whether to disconnect him from life support.Â
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia denied the report, saying Arafat is still alive and being treated at Percy hospital in France.
PARIS If it had been up to the French people, John Kerry would have been elected the next president of the United States by a wide margin. But as officials and political observers here came to terms Wednesday with another four years of George W. Bush in the White House, many said that, ironically, France could come out stronger.
0 Read MoreFrench President Jacques Chirac followed other European leaders Wednesday in congratulating U.S. President George W. Bush on his re-election.
“It is in a spirit of dialogue, esteem and mutual respect that we must continue to develop our cooperation, our shared fight against terrorism and the action we carry together to promote liberty and democracy,” the French president wrote.
Chirac told the U.S. president a close transatlantic partnership is essential if the two continents are to meet a variety of challenges confronting them.
Experts are divided over whether transatlantic
0 Read MoreJacques Chirac continues to lose public support in France, according to a poll by Ifop published in Le Journal du Dimanche. 41 per cent of respondents are satisfied with the president’s performance, a two per cent drop since September.
Chirac won the presidential election in 1995, and was re-elected in a run-off over Jean-Marie Le Pen on May 5, 2002. The head of state’s popularity increased in late 2002 and early 2003 due to his vocal opposition to armed conflict in Iraq without an explicit mandate from the United Nations (UN) Security Council.
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After being served up defeat I want to tell the French. Keep doing what you are doing. America is shifting conservative greater than I would have ever thought and the world will need as many moderate voices as it can get with the US pushing its conservative agenda.
I do have one small comment though on the "hate" side. Thanks for nothing when it came to your Presidents support for Kerry, it could have been the deciding factor, but who knows.
God help us all.
Disenchanted American.
154 Read MoreThis is a sad day for me, a sad thay for Human kind, a sad day for our planet, and unfortunatly, I think american people will realize their mistake way too late, off course I hope not, but i’m quiet sure that the consequence of this present day will be catastrophic for the futur generation, and as a futur dad (next may) I am really scared for my children now.
53% of the american people where a huge disapointment to me today.
What can I say…
144 Read MoreI would like to take the opportunity to say good luck to America on this election day.
I hope USA will get back where it belong and will become, again, the most admired country in the world.
George W Bush made it the most hated country worlwide and that never happend, ever!
174 Read MoreHi,
I’m a french student in Public law looking for english speaking penpals. I’m not that bad in english but i just would like to keep on improving it.
I’m a 20 years old student (third year) and will specialize in international penal law. This summer Iwas an intern at the Terrorism Prevention Branch of the United Nations in Vienna, Austria. I will maybe go to Russia next year to work on terrorism topics in eastern europe. I fon of classical music, arts, history, martial arts ( my father was a philosophy teacher and a Aïkido teacher, I practice myself Judo, French boxing/savate and jiu Jitsu), foreign languages and foreign cultures…
I speak French, English, German and a bit Russian.
1 Read MoreI am considering visiting my son who is working in Paris for 7 months. Is December 17 -25 a poor time to visit? I have visited in July/August twice. Is March – May a better time.
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