Mauritania has a long history of coups, with the military involved in nearly every government since its independence from France in 1960.
Since its independence from France in 1960, Chad's history has been marked by instability and violence stemming mostly from tension between the mainly Arab-Muslim north and the predominantly Christian and animist south.
The news that Chad will pull its troops from Mali could force France to push back its own timeframe for withdrawing its troops from its former West African colony and creates greater urgency for a U.N. military mission to Mali.
Recorders from the doomed plane, which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in June 2009 on its way from Brazil to France, were found amid the wreckage last week after almost two years on the sea bed.
But it is not realistic to expect that the United States of America can get, at this moment, 80 percent of its energy from nuclear power -- as France does, for example -- or 30 percent of its energy from wind sources, as other countries her in Europe do.
The company wanted to fly in new tyres from its factory in France, but International Automobile Federation (FIA) rules introduced this season, prohibit the introduction of a new tyre part-way through a Grand Prix weekend.
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Despite its unilateral move to strike, France is seeking help from its regional allies and the international community.
Google selling ads into France from its Irish office (which is what it does) is not some perversion of the tax system.
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The row had been sparked by a report that Renault was considering moving production of a future version of the Clio, its popular small car, from France to Turkey.
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Mrs Thatcher wrote that one Peruvian ship had been sent away from France empty, but another ship was on its way to France to take delivery of weapons - Peru was protesting to France about a breach of contract.
How would Airbus get the huge ready-built sections of the A380 to its headquarters in Toulouse, France from factories in Britain and Germany?
In an effort to untangle itself from its parent company, the France-based Atari SA, Atari US has filed for bankruptcy and will sell all its assets in the next three to four months.
To pass, the resolution needs to attract nine votes from the 15-member council and no vetoes from its permanent members (who, apart from America and Britain, include France, Russia and China).
Part of the answer came that evening from Deauville: France changed its mind and now supported a new treaty.
France began withdrawing from its shops Belgian eggs and chicken suspected of contamination.
The British Foreign Office had changed its tone since the 1890s from suspicion of France and Russia to suspicion of Germany.
The startling news that Germany is repatriating its gold reserves from the United States and France has got precious metals speculators worried that this is the first major sign that trust between central banks across the globe could be deteriorating.
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It would help France to climb down from its own strident position on Iraq if the Americans toned down their own strident anti-French rhetoric.
France plans to withdraw its troops from Mali next month, with West African countries expected to take over in the run-up to elections due in July.
In November, rating agency Moody's downgraded France's debt from Aaa to Aa1, and kept its negative outlook, meaning the rating could be cut again, because of France's "persistent structural economic challenges" .
In France, aside from those representing its overseas territories, there are no minorities in parliament.
Around a tenth of its revenues comes from overseas, mostly from sales to France and Canada.
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By Sunday 10 February, the Romanian government was examining the possibility that horsemeat found in beef products in Britain and France had come from an abattoir in its jurisdiction.
Fitch ratings today affirmed France AAA rating but revised its outlook to negative from stable.
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It is one of three ships used by the company to ferry the wings from north Wales to its assembly factory at Toulouse in southern France.
The Chirac they describe lacks the degree of clear direction and application to haul a country as complex as France on to a fresh track away from its old feather-bedded, statist ways.
Check out the iShares France (EWQ) ETF and its 10% drop from its peak this year.
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France wants to start withdrawing its 4, 000 soldiers from its former colony next month.
Air France-KLM scrapped its bid last week amid opposition from unions.
EADS, which is a consortium of aerospace and defence manufacturers from France, Germany and Spain, was upbeat about its business despite the wing problems, citing strength in Airbus and its space and Eurocopter helicopter units.
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