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Lightning sparks Hollande's French presidency
Atlanta Journal
| PARIS — Socialist Francois Hollande assumed France's presidency Tuesday, inheriting a country fearful for its financial future and jetting off immediately to Berlin to tackle his most pressing problem: Europe's debt crisis. President-elect Fr...
Lightning sparks Hollande's French presidency
Springfield News-Sun
| PARIS — Socialist Francois Hollande assumed France's presidency Tuesday, inheriting a country fearful for its financial future and jetting off immediately to Berlin to tackle his most pressing problem: Europe's debt crisis. | A flash of light...
Lightning hits French president's plane, none hurt
The Boston Globe
| PARIS-Socialist Francois Hollande took over as France's president Tuesday and jetted off to Berlin hours later for talks on Europe's debt crisis -- only to have his plane struck by lightning. No one was hurt. | It was a startling beginning for a ma...
New French President Hollande's plane hit by lightning hours after inauguration, no one hurt
Star Tribune
| PARIS - Socialist Francois Hollande took over as France's president Tuesday and jetted off to Berlin hours later for talks on Europe's debt crisis — only to have his plane struck by lightning. No one was hurt. | It was a startling beginning f...
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WN / Rubielyn Bunag
Euro eases after first round of French vote
The Times Of India
Tweet | The euro lost ground against the dollar and yen in Asia on Monday amid concern over the French Socialist challenger who beat Nicolas Sarkozy in the first round of the natio...
Francois Hollande takes the helm in France
Palm Beach Post
| PARIS — Francois Hollande walked up the steps of the Elysee Palace in Paris and walked out Tuesday as France's first Socialist president since 1995, taking the helm of a country worried about Europe's future and pledging to make it a fairer p...
Francois Hollande takes the helm in France
Atlanta Journal
| PARIS — Francois Hollande walked up the steps of the Elysee Palace in Paris and walked out Tuesday as France's first Socialist president since 1995, taking the helm of a country worried about Europe's future and pledging to make it a fairer p...
Francois Hollande takes the helm in France
my SA
| PARIS (AP) — Francois Hollande walked up the steps of the Elysee Palace in Paris and walked out Tuesday as France's first Socialist president since 1995, taking the helm of a country worried about Europe's future and pledging to make it a fairer ...
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The President of the German Central Bank (Bundesbank) Axel Weber gestures prior to the annual news conference in Frankfurt, central Germany, Tuesday, March 13, 2007.
(photo: AP / Michael Probst)
Weber seeks low key entrance as UBS chairman
The Guardian
By Katharina Bart ZURICH (Reuters) - When he becomes chairman of UBS next month, Axel Weber, the former head of Germany's central bank, must do something he didn't as one of the euro zone's top officials: act diplomatically. The 55-year-old, who spoiled his chances of becoming European Central Bank chief by criticising ECB policies, must curry favo...
Currency Markets
Marine Le Pen, the daughter of France's longtime far-right leader who now heads his National Front party, gestures as she meets the press after touring a center for illegal migrants on Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa, Monday, March 14, 2011. Despite her party's anti-immigrant politics, Le Pen insisted before her arrival that the visit is aimed at gathering information, not at provocation. Le Pen, 42, who his stumping for next year's French presidential race, has been trying to soften the National Front's xenophobic image. Her visit comes as five new boats laden with migrants are headed to the island refuge. Most of the 8,700 north Africans who have arrived here since unrest in Tunisia started in January say they want to go to France, where many have family.
(photo: AP / Antonello Nusca)
Hollande edges Sarkozy in French vote, Le Pen surges
The Star
| PARIS (Reuters) - Far-rightist Marine Le Pen threw France's presidential race wide open on Sunday by polling nearly 19 percent in the first round - votes that may tip a runoff between Socialist favourite Francois Hollande and conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy. Francois Hollande, Socialist Party candidate for the 2012 French presidential elec...



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