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France's tireless Sarkozy strides into Middle East (The Christian Science Monitor)

 
The Christian Science Monitor - – French President Nicolas Sarkozy is no longer head of the European Union. But that has not stopped the peripatetic dynamo from a ceaseless search for a Middle East cease-fire. (link)

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