• McKinnon was on the brink of extradition in August 2008, when the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, refused to reconsider the decision to send him to the United States, effectively clearing the way for his transfer.

    CNN: UK Pentagon hacker loses appeal, will be sent to U.S.

  • Gill said they had a 35m Euro bid for France striker Karim Benzema refused.

    BBC: Wayne Rooney not for sale at any price - Man Utd

  • The European Union, France, and Germany all refused to make explicit offers of aide.

    FORBES: The Greek Debt Crisis Was Resolved By A Confidence Game

  • But at a news conference, the leaders of Germany, France and the European Commission refused to make any detailed comment on the crisis in Cyprus, reports said.

    BBC: Cyprus told it can amend bailout, as key vote postponed

  • When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British.

    WHITEHOUSE: George Washington

  • Predictably, in a strictly Catholic France where actors were excommunicated and refused burial in consecrated ground (though churchmen patronised the theatre and wrote plays themselves), the usual dour moral lessons were drawn.

    ECONOMIST: Mysterious Moli��re

  • But France's president, Jacques Chirac, has stridently refused to back away from his candidate, Jean-Claude Trichet, governor of the Bank of France.

    ECONOMIST: Fanfare for the euro | The

  • However, Montpellier's Fulgence Ouedraogo, Stade Francais' Antoine Burban and Brive duo Fabrice Estebanez and Alexis Palisson have been left out because their clubs refused to release them for France's team in the London Sevens last week.

    BBC: France omit Sebastien Chabal & William Servat for tour

  • The response from France and Russia - the two permanent members who refused to approve a second resolution before the war - to a first draft was on the whole positive, though each had specific worries about the text.

    BBC: Q&A: Lifting sanctions on Iraq

  • Tensions between Britain and EU members, particulary France, have been rising since prime minister David Cameron refused to sign onto EU fiscal treaty changes.

    FORBES: Euro Crisis Will Persist And Cause Severe Market Volatility, Fitch Says

  • In 1789, in France, the Third Estate proclaimed itself a National Assembly and refused to let the king keep his veto.

    CNN: Wednesday,

  • The upright Mr Balladur can hardly, they say, be accused of sympathy for the Front: only this spring, after a regional election, he refused to take the presidency of the Ile de France region (which surrounds Paris) if that meant accepting votes from Fronters.

    ECONOMIST: France

  • At a time when both France and America were pressing it to leave Lebanon, Mr Hariri refused to take the Syrian side.

    ECONOMIST: Syria

  • When the insurance companies refused to pay up and the fraud was exposed, Wainewright fled to France.

    ECONOMIST: Literary history: Murderous man | The

  • Andrews had a row with France's Lassana Diarra after the Croke Park contest on Saturday although the Irishman has refused to reveal what was said.

    BBC: French 'disrespect' riled Andrews

  • Britain, France and Spain then demanded changes in voting weights, but were forced to back down when the small countries refused to budge, and nobody wanted to block that enlargement.

    ECONOMIST: Mountains still to climb | The

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