Former French president Jacques Chirac and presidential hopeful Dominique de Villepin received "suitcases of cash" from African leaders to fund their electoral campaigns, a former political aide alleged over the weekend.
The corruption trial of former French President Jacques Chirac will go ahead, a Paris court ruled Monday, and will take place September 5-23.
The French supreme court has rejected a constitutional challenge in the corruption trial of former President Jacques Chirac, allowing court proceedings to move forward after they were suspended in March.
A judge postponed Tuesday the corruption trial of former French President Jacques Chirac.
Former French President Jacques Chirac goes on trial Monday for embezzling money from the city of Paris when he was mayor, along with nine other people.
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Former French President Jacques Chirac faces corruption charges relating to his time as Paris mayor.
Former French President Jacques Chirac will stand trial for embezzlement by early next year, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Former French President Jacques Chirac has been placed under investigation for allegations stemming from his time as mayor of Paris, his office said Friday.
Former French President Jacques Chirac is ready to face trial for corruption, he told a leading French radio station Thursday.
Former French President Jacques Chirac must stand trial on corruption charges, marking the first time a former French president is being brought to court.
The French President likes to cast himself as the anti-Chirac, though not much between the two nations has changed
Speculation surrounds the state of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's marriage following word that the first lady, Cecilia Sarkozy, will not be accompanying her husband on a state visit to Morocco next week.
Analysis: The new French president seeks a friendly relationship with his American counterpart, to prevent their substantial disagreements on Iraq, Iran and much else from souring transatlantic ties
France's new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, reached out to his political opponents in his inaugural speech, pledging to reunite the country as he was formally sworn in Wednesday in an elaborate ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
French President Jacques Chirac kicked off an international donor conference aimed at raising billions in aid for battle-torn Lebanon by offering the government a 500 million euros ($650 million dollars) loan at "advantageous terms."
French President Jacques Chirac has said he believes a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis can be found without resorting to U.N. sanctions.
European countries will provide "the backbone" of a U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday.
European countries have pledged to contribute almost 7,000 troops to a U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
French President Jacques Chirac has announced he will commit a total of 2,000 French troops to the United Nations' international force that is to help Lebanon's army secure that country's borders.
French President Jacques Chirac says peace talks to resolve conflict in the Middle East will focus on a return of sovereignty to Lebanon and Israel's right to security.
Pleas for restraint on all sides of the latest Middle East violence have been expressed by governments around the world as tension continues to escalate in the region.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is in Paris Friday for talks with French President Jacques Chirac -- with the future of Europe's energy supplies and in particular nuclear power topping the agenda.
The French government has scrapped a controversial youth job law, bowing to weeks of million-strong protests with a change of heart likely to further undermine the image of the country's embattled Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.
France's Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has refused to bow to demands that he repeal a controversial youth labor law that has stirred mass protests and threatened his political future, saying he will "fight to the end."
French union leaders have said they will press for a full repeal of a controversial new labor law in talks with the government to try to end the nationwide protests it has sparked.
Major French labor unions are expected to meet Wednesday with representatives of President Jacques Chirac's party over a contested youth jobs law that has sparked nationwide protests.
More than a million protesters took to the streets of France on Tuesday hoping to kill a new labor law that will allow employers to more easily hire and fire young, first-time workers.
French President Jacques Chirac has said he will sign a controversial youth job law despite weeks of protest against it, but promised amendments that would weaken two of its most disputed reforms.
France's highest court has ruled that a job bill that has sparked massive demonstrations and strikes across the country is valid.
The pressure was on the French government Wednesday after massive protests against a new law that will make it easier to fire young people.
French trade unions and student groups have called for a nationwide "day of action" on March 28 to pressure the government to withdraw the new youth employment law, a source at the trade union CFDT told CNN.
The dispute over whether Dubai Ports should be able to buy a British company that operates several U.S. ports may be about national security; the rights of Congress; and the quality of decision-making about foreign investment, as the many critics of the deal say it is. But it is sure looking like a xenophobic catfight, too.
French senators Wednesday joined the country's National Assembly in voting to extend a state of emergency for three more months amid a wave of rioting in numerous cities and suburbs.
As arson and violence spreads into regional France and central Paris, French President Jacques Chirac has vowed to crack down on the perpetrators.
Paris was hit by an eighth night of unrest Thursday with youths setting fire to cars despite the presence of more than 1,000 riot police on the streets.
France's prime minister has cancelled a trip to Canada in order to tackle spreading violence in poor Paris suburbs and soothe a public row between his ministers over the government's response.
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French President Jacques Chirac has been taken to a military hospital, suffering a "minor vision problem" after a "small vascular incident," the president's press office said Saturday
French President Jacques Chirac has called for an emergency summit to discuss the future of the European Union, reeling after French and Dutch rejections of is first constitution.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is expected to postpone a referendum on the new European Union, following a rejection by voters in France and the Netherlands.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said a referendum on the European constitution has been postponed, following the document's rejection in France and the Netherlands.
In their first meeting since French and Dutch voters rejected the European Union's proposed constitution, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac have urged the continuation of the constitutional ratification process.
Just days after French voters handed the EU constitution a big "thumbs down," a slimmed-down government to be led by new Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has been unveiled.
Does it matter much to the U.S. that the French voted "No" on a proposed European Constitution?
French President Jacques Chirac has appointed loyalist Dominique de Villepin as prime minister after French voters rejected the European Union Constitution -- throwing the future direction of the 25-nation organization into doubt.
French President Jacques Chirac appeared set to replace his prime minister after voters soundly rejected a proposed constitution for the European Union.
Exit polls from France's referendum Sunday say a decisive majority has rejected a treaty to create a constitution for the European Union.
Voters in mainland France began casting their ballots Sunday on a proposed landmark constitution for Europe.
French voters have rejected a proposed European Union constitution, turning aside an extensive pro-ratification campaign by President Jacques Chirac and throwing a wrench into plans for closer European integration.
France's vote on the European Constitution has become more of a referendum on the record of President Jacques Chirac and his government, says CNN European Political Editor Robin Oakley.
Suspense was growing in France less than 24 hours before more than 40 million French voters go to the polls in Sunday's crucial referendum on the European Constitution.
Overseas voters cast their ballots on Saturday in France's crucial referendum on the European Union's constitution, with the "No" camp holding its lead in the final opinion polls.
France is wrapping up a divisive campaign on the new European Union constitution with most polls indicating that voters will shake the continent by rejecting the landmark charter.
French media has dismissed as unconvincing President Jacques Chirac's efforts to persuade his country to vote for the EU constitution in an upcoming referendum.
President Bush told European leaders Monday that trans-Atlantic unity was essential to take on shared challenges -- including Middle East peace, an alleged Iranian nuclear threat and moves away from democracy in Russia.
French President Jacques Chirac has warned that "silent tsunamis" of despair, such as unemployment, are plaguing the world, and called on those attending the World Economic Forum help others.
French President Jacques Chirac has warned journalists in France to stay out of Iraq, because their safety cannot be guaranteed.
Much of Europe fell silent for three minutes on Wednesday as busy rail stations, stock exchanges, offices and shops paused to mourn the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster.
Two French journalists taken hostage by an Iraqi insurgency group in August and released Tuesday received a joyful greeting as they arrived in Paris.
The White House announced Tuesday that President Bush will travel to Belgium, Germany and the Slovak Republic in February for meetings with NATO allies and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
U.S. diplomats here respond to Jacques Chirac's continued Yankee-bashing following George W. Bush's re-election by saying the French president is out of step with his people, who are not nearly that anti-American.
Alain Juppe has always been considered among Jacques Chirac's most faithful followers.
The show looked like a presidential rally, and some in the hall believed it was, but Nicolas Sarkozy, the ambitious, and hyper kinetic follower of Jacques Chirac, had, in principle, simply come to accept the leadership of Chirac's political party.
French President Jacques Chirac was ending a fence-mending but at times edgy state visit to Britain Friday with a question-and-answer session with students at Oxford University.
French President Jacques Chirac continued a fence-mending but at times edgy state visit to Britain Friday by reaffirming that the United Nations should decide on foreign interventions.
French President Jacques Chirac is in London for a state visit after reigniting a bitter row over the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, saying the U.S. and Britain had made the world a more dangerous place.
Setting aside their differences over the war, French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have told a joint news conference they both want a peaceful and stable Iraq.
Last year's U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and ousting of former leader Saddam Hussein has made the world more dangerous by provoking terrorism, French President Jacques Chirac said on the eve of a state visit to Britain.
French President Jacques Chirac's visit to China has netted nearly $5 billion in deals for French companies and also put the spotlight on his views on the EU arms embargo against China.
Two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq have pleaded for Paris to meet their captors' demands and reverse a ban on Muslim headscarves for girls in public schools.
John Paul II is visiting the French "miracle shrine" town of Lourdes where he called himself a sick man among the suffering.
U.S. President George W. Bush has repeated a call for the European Union to admit Turkey, despite criticism by France's President Jacques Chirac that he was meddling in EU affairs.
French President Jacques Chirac has taken U.S. President George W. Bush to task over his call for Turkey's admission to the European Union.
President Bush has told world leaders at the G8 summit in Georgia that NATO should take on a bigger role in Iraq -- a proposal that French President Jacques Chirac greeted with reservations.
A D-Day veteran has told how he hitched a lift with French President Jacques Chirac after he got lost following Sunday's ceremonies in northern France to honor the men who liberated Europe in June, 1944.
World leaders gave a standing ovation to D-Day veterans Sunday at a moving ceremony overlooking the invasion beaches of June 6, 1944.
The alliance forged between the United States and Europe during World War II is strong "and is still needed today," U.S. President George W. Bush told veterans commemorating the 1944 D-Day landings.
U.S. President George W. Bush and French President Jacques Chirac have stressed their joint support for democratic strides being made in Iraq, although the French leader admitted he was troubled by the "level of chaos" in the Mideast country.
The first world leader President Bush spoke with after his speech on Iraq's future Monday was French President Jacques Chirac.
French President Jacques Chirac says a U.S.-British draft resolution outlining the handover of power to an interim Iraqi government has some positive aspects but needs further discussion.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is in Paris for talks with French President Jacques Chirac on the proposed European Union constitution.
Queen Elizabeth II has warned Britain and France they cannot afford to be divided while facing threats to their security.
Queen Elizabeth II is marking 100 years of peace between Britain and France by taking her first trip to Paris on the Eurostar -- one of the strongest symbols of the two countries' ties.
French President Jacques Chirac has unveiled a new government, with a major shakeup that includes the appointment of popular Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy as finance minister.
French President Jacques Chirac is to reshuffle his Cabinet but will keep his unpopular prime minister after his center-right party suffered a landslide defeat in regional election.
French President Jacques Chirac will respond in the next few days to the rout of his governing conservatives in regional elections, aides say.
Alain Juppe has always been considered among Jacques Chirac's most faithful followers.
French police have opened an investigation after a Paris newspaper published a letter from a Muslim group threatening the French people.
The leaders of France and Germany have pledged to step up the fight against terrorism and coordinate with other nations to protect citizens and institutions.
The French National Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a proposed controversial ban on Muslim headscarves and other "conspicuous" religious symbols in French schools.
French President Jacques Chirac has backed a former prime minister who was convicted last week in a party financing scandal.
A French court has dashed the political ambitions of former Prime Minister Alain Juppe by convicting him over a party financing scandal.
Taipei is bracing for more international pressure over its plan to hold a series of controversial referendums after France joined the United States in opposing the move.
France's president has warned Taiwan it will be committing a "grave error" if it holds a referendum in March.
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