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PARIS (Reuters) - France's first lady, model-turned-singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, has rejected accusations of influencing the President Nicolas Sarkozy's political decisions, saying he was "not a yes-man."  

PARIS — American screen icon Clint Eastwood was made a commander in France's prestigious Legion of Honor on Friday. French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented the 79-year-old actor and director with the decoration, honoring his body of work, his ...  

French President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) welcomes Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, 13 Nov 2009French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been pushing the stalled Middle East peace process this week, holding talks ...  

France and Brazil have adopted a common policy for next week's global warming summit in Copenhagen, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday. Speaking after talks with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Sarkozy said he would ...  

Informed sources have asserted that the meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Syrian President Bashar al-Asad "was very useful due to the good personal relationship between them" and said Sarkozy recalled that he was behind the ...  

HOLLYWOOD icon Clint Eastwood has been made a commander in France’s prestigious Legion of Honour. The decoration was bestowed upon the 79-year-old actor and director by French President Nicolas Sarkozy for his contribution to cinema. In presenting the accolade, President Sarkozy described Eastwood as “a myth” and “a giant” as well as “an example of the admiration we have for American culture”. In a career spanning five decades, Eastwood...  

In a major speech Thursday about what it means to be French, President Nicolas Sarkozy said that the burqa and the "subservience of women" had no place in secular France. France has one of Europe's largest Muslim populations.  

The Israeli official quoted Netanyahu from comments at a meeting in Paris with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who pressed ahead in their 90-minute session with a U.-led effort to bring a resumption of the stalled Middle East talks. "Sarkozy raised ...  

PARIS (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, at odds over Jewish settlements, made no apparent dent in the dispute as they sought to find ways Wednesday to revive Mideast peace efforts. The Israeli ...  

guardian.co.ukNicolas Sarkozy accused of rewriting history after Facebook slipguardian.co.ukIt started out as a personal account by a world leader of where he was when the wall came down. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, posted a photograph of himself taking a pickaxe to the Berlin Wall on his Facebook page, describing how he rushed to ...Berlin Wall anniversary: doubts cast over Nicolas Sarkozy's pickaxe claimTelegraph.co.ukSarkozy...  

French President Nicolas Sarkozy (left) greets Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris. Sarkozy tried to breathe life into the Middle East peace process Friday, hosting his Syrian counterpart just two days after ...  

President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday stepped up French diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, holding talks with Palestinian and Israeli leaders ahead of an Elysee meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad.With the Israeli-Palestinian peace effort in peril, Sarkozy spoke by phone with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after meeting.  

SCEPTICS are crying foul over a Facebook post by French President Nicolas Sarkozy that suggests he was in Berlin the day the wall began to fall. French journalists who covered the November 9, 1989, events raised alarm bells over the well-timed note on Mr Sarkozy's Facebook page, posted last Sunday.  

French President Nicolas Sarkozy rushed to Berlin 20 years ago to begin chipping away at the Berlin Wall just hours before it fell, he recalls on his Facebook page. There's just one small problem: it never happened, say critics. The French media have been chipping away at Sarkozy's claim, uncovering...  

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was in Paris on Wednesday to mark the 91st anniversary of the end of World War I. The event is exactly what French President Nicolas Sarkozy needed to deflect attention away from a growing list of negative headlines.