The French security alert follows a plan, codenamed Vigipirate, which was first introduced in 1995 following a series of bombings in Paris that were blamed on Algerian guerrillas of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA).
Clinton also will stress that it is imperative for the international community to speak with one voice on the issue, but administration officials acknowledge there is still deep resistance to military strikes among the Russians, the French, the Chinese and other Security Council members.
The renewed violence heightens security concerns as the French military seeks to hand over its mission to African forces.
"We asked the French to step up security around our diplomatic missions in France, " said Selcuk Unal, a spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
The French take their operational security as seriously as their food.
France will begin to reduce its troop levels in Mali next month in an effort to have West African forces, with the support of the United Nations, take over and maintain security in the country, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said earlier this week.
An estimated 6, 000 French expatriates are said to live in Bamako and one of the tasks of the French mission is to guarantee their security.
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Others in former colonies continue to embrace France, saying the current security situations that have spurred reluctant French interventions on the continent don't amount to neo-colonialism.
But the French media is questioning why security was not watertight in the first place and why rights holders, in turn, failed to conduct regular checks on the firm.
And to sidestep Anglo-French vetoes at the Security Council, for the first time the General Assembly met in emergency session (where no country held a veto) and took up a Canadian suggestion to assemble an international emergency force to go to the canal and monitor the ceasefire.
The UK and French governments' argument is as follows: the increased security around Calais and the recent dismantling of four people-smuggling gangs will send a strong signal to those who traffic in immigrants.
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- A car bomb exploded just outside the French embassy in Tripoli early Tuesday morning, injuring two French security guards and a local girl, officials said.
In a presentation at the Black Hat and Defcon security conference in July, for instance, French security researcher Andre Costin presented vulnerabilities in the next-generation air traffic control system known as ADS-B that he said would allow a hacker with a software-defined radio to track and even spoof planes in the sky, potentially creating dangerous distractions for pilots.
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Jean Philippe Chauzy of French agency Acted said the security issues in Haiti should neither be over-played nor used as an excuse to prevent aid deliveries.
The heads of state and government and thousands of World War II veterans took part in the ceremonies amid one of the biggest security operations staged on French soil.
The second is security, and specifically the fear of where a radicalised French Islam might lead.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the offending scene showed the shooting of a security guard in the lobby of a Shanghai skyscraper by the French assassin being chased by Bond.
Defeat would be too high a price for the security of Americans, the French, and Europeans.
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PESC, to use the French acronym for the common foreign and security policy.
Correspondents say the rapid progress of the French-led force has put the diplomatic focus on how to ensure lasting security in Mali.
Despite French and German opposition, the UN Security Council is expected to vote Thursday to extend exemption of American forces from ICC prosecutions.
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Meanwhile, French forces protecting Bangui's main airport opened fire on three cars that were speeding toward a security checkpoint, said the French Defense Ministry.
Several hundred French troops are being deployed to the Malian capital, Bamako, to help ensure its security and protect French nationals, he said.
And Mr Blair's passage stressing the importance of a close security relationship with America was greeted with stony silence by the French national assembly.
For one thing, Mr. Bush may or may not get the Russians, Chinese and French (who, together with Great Britain and the United States wield vetoes in the Security Council) to go along with a new resolution to his liking.
Failure to give such assurances might tempt the French and Russians to wield their vetoes on the Security Council.
Papers throughout the world have made the connection between the French military operation in Mali and the hostage crisis in Algeria, and expressed concern over the deteriorating security situation in the region.
Regarding the chain of command, the French intelligence assessment said the section of the Syrian military responsible for filling munitions with chemical agents and for security at storage sites - "Branch 450" of the CERS - was staffed only by members of the president's minority Alawite sect and was "distinguished by a high level of loyalty to the regime".
The French are readier than ever before to act together on security matters.
"The situation is too dynamic for the French to allow reporters up there, " said a security source familiar with similar campaigns.
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