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(CNSNews.com) – Ahead of a mammoth United Nations sustainability conference in Rio de Janeiro next month, the Brazilian government has signaled a new push to get the U.N.’s top environmental body upgraded – a push long opposed by the United States. The U
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A picture taken 17 May 2007 shows former Nicolas Sarkozy's spokeswoman for the presidential campaign, Rachida Dati arriving at Matignon, the prime minister's official residence. French Prime Minister Francois Fillon on Friday unveiled a 15-member... View Photo »
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He went on to build a half-female "rainbow" cabinet, which included a high-profile left-wing foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, and France's first senior minister of North African origin, the glamorous Rachida Dati. But soon his private life was making
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Ingrid Betancourt, held for more than six years by the rebel FARC group, steps off a plane after being rescued To be a hostage of Colombia's Marxist guerrillas is to be on the move. The rebels the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) sequester
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This story by Igor Ignatchenko , political scientist, Strategic Culture Foundation expert, was published in International Affairs magazine. At the moment, there is little doubt that Francois Hollande can count on winning the presidential run off in Franc
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Head of the French socialist party group at the National Assembly Jean-Marc Ayrault adresses foreign Affairs minister Bernard Kouchner, 11 December 2007 at the French National Assembly in Paris, before socialist deputies leave the room as a boycott of a... View Photo »
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As the French presidential election moves into its final stages, the French people are now reflecting on the nature of Nicolas Sarkozy's presidency. Known by the French themselves as Sarko the American, what many do not know is that Sarkozy's family ties
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Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner at a meeting of the UN Security Council Source: ISN The doctrine of Responsibility to Protect is not going to disappear soon – and neither is the question of UN Security Council R
About Bernard Kouchner
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Bernard Kouchner (born 1 November 1939 in Avignon) is a French politician, diplomat, and doctor. He is co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) -also known as Doctors Without Borders- and Doctors of the World. He is currently the French minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the right-wing Fillon government, although he was considered... Full Article
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French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Bernard Kouchner and his wife the journalist Christine Ockrent leave after the funerals of French film director Alain Corneau on September 4, 2010 at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Corneau, one of France's most well-known film...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is helped by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, behind him, as he slips, while stepping down from his plane, on his arrival at Kigali airport, on February 25, 2010. Nicolas Sarkozy acknowledged that France made mistakes during the 1994 genocide,...
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French President Francois Mitterrand (2ndL), surrounded by his Bosnian security guards (L & R) and his personal body guard Daniel Gamba (2-R), is accompanied by his Bosnian counterpart Alija Izetbegovic (C) and French doctor Bernard Kouchner (L) 28 June 1992 in Sarajevo during his surprise...
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Bosnian President Aljia Izetbegovic (C, with black grey and red tie) chats with French Health minister Bernard Kouchner (blue shirt) and French President Francois Mitterrand (R, bold head) after their visit to a military hospital in Sarajevo 28 June 1992. Mitterrand made a surprise...
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Mali's President Amadou Toumani Toure (L) walks with France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner hands in hands, upon his arrival at Bamako's airport 07 June 2007, in Mali. Kouchner, who arrived today at the start of his first visit to Africa since his appointment last month, is to hold...
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Freed Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt delivers a speech next to French President Nicolas Sarkozy upon her arrival at Vélizy-Villacoublay's military airport, west of Paris, on July 4, 2008. French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt was snatched with three US hostages and 11...
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Freed Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt (C) is welcomed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, his wife Carla (L) and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner ,on July 4, 2008 at Villacoublay's military airport, west of Paris. French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt was snatched...
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Freed Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt delivers a speech next to French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner upon her arrival on July 4, 2008 at Vélizy-Villacoublay's military airport, west of Paris. French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt was snatched with three US hostages and...
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(Archive) A picture taken on May 5, 1992 shows French French Health Minister Bernard Kouchner (R) talking to a rescuer at Furiani stadium in Corsica where a temporary stand collapsed. Eighteen people were killed when the stand collapsed minutes before the start of the French Cup soccer...
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First French Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (L), Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Bernard Kouchner (C) and Junior minister responsible for Foreign Assistance and Francophony Jean-Marie Bockel attend a honour ceremony upon their arrival with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at...
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French former Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner walks during a visit next to Guinea's Health Minister Naman Keita (R) in Conakry on January 17, 2012. Kouchner visited the construction site of a medical center financed by French companies.
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French Foreign Affairs minister Bernard Kouchner (R) is about to join French president Nicolas Sarkozy (L) and Libyan leader Moamer Khadafi (C) for talks shortly after their arrival for an official visit to Libya, 25 July 2007 in Tripoli. French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy (2L) speaks with French soldiers from the 8th regiment of paratroopers, survivors of the Taliban's ambush of Ouzbine, in the Warehouse camp in Kabul on August 20, 2008. French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged France's commitment to its mission in...
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A United Nations peacekeeper from India stands guard upon the arrival of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner at the Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in Kibati, about 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) north of the provincial capital of Goma, on November 1, 2008. Belgian Foreign...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy (2nd R) shows a photo offered by former South African president Nelson Mandela (C), as his wife Graca Machel, French Foreign minister Bernard Kouchner (L), French committee on constitutional reform member Jack Lang (2nd L) and Prime minister Francois...
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French actor and director Michel Piccoli (2ndL), his wife Ludivine Clerc (L), journalist Christine Ockrent (2ndR) and his companion, former Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner (R), attend on June 11, 2011 in Paris, the ceremony in hommage to Spanish writer, left-wing activist and former...
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