Sarkozy calls for troop exit from Iraq
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President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday called for a clear timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq as he outlined an assertive role for France in other world hotspots.
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The time has come for Australian combat troops to leave Iraq, the head of the country's armed forces says.
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The British Prime Minister announces the withdrawal of some British troops from Iraq; Denmark follows suit
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Thousands of people demonstrated in central London on Saturday calling for British troops to be pulled out of Iraq, the largest such protest for several years.
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Military commander in Iraq says call for withdrawal would represent 'a giant step backwards'.
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Iraq's interim president said Tuesday it would be "complete nonsense" to ask U.S. and other foreign troops to leave Iraq at this point but some of the 170,000 soldiers could be leaving Iraq by the end of the year.
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France, which is pulling its special forces soldiers out of Afghanistan, said on Monday it would temporarily redeploy its remaining troops anywhere in the country for emergencies.
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Australians are calling for a withdrawal of troops from Iraq, less than a week before a general election.
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WARSAW, Poland Poland&#39;s defense minister says his country should pull its troops out of Iraq at the end of 2005. It&#39;s the first official indication of when the country may leave Iraq.
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CAIRO - The kidnapped director of CARE International in Iraq tearfully urged British forces to withdraw from Iraq in a videotape broadcast Friday by Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite television news channel.
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The international community cannot afford to lose the war against extremists in Afghanistan, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday on a quick visit to the insurgency-hit country.
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France is ready to launch a military operation in Chad against rebels if necessary, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday
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British and American troops should be pulled out of Iraq by January 2006, two former foreign secretaries have said.
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France's foreign minister appealed Monday for the release of two French journalists abducted in Baghdad, saying he was in the Middle East to explain that his nation respects all religions and that he was not ...
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France's government and leaders of its  Muslim minority urged Iraqi militants Sunday to free two French  journalists they were holding hostage in a bid to force Paris  to revoke its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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"We will be, as I said before, in this country, Afghanistan, for the long haul, and it's important for us to be here in partnership with countries from NATO"  Leaders of France, Australia and Italy traveled to Afghanistan over the weekend to meet with President Hamid Karzai and visit troops stationed in the conflict-ridden country.Nicolas Sarkozy, the first French president to visit Afghanistan, signaled that French troops would not pull out of the country anytime soon. He told Karzai that France has a long-term political and military interest in Afghanistan, Karzai's office said in a statement.'We did not want to give the signal of a withdrawal, which would have been a detestable signal at a time when we see the ravages that terrorism can do to the world,' Sarkozy said on France-Info radio. Read more
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Poland&#39;s Defence Minister, Jerzy Szmajdzinski, has said he believes Polish troops should withdraw from Iraq at the end of next year.