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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 339

Jacques Chirac

French President Emmanuel Macron asks Israeli police to leave the 12th-century Church of Saint Anne in the Old City of Jerusalem on January 22, 2020. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)
January 22, 2020, 6:43 pm
Macron yells at Israeli security to leave French church during Jerusalem visit
French president loses his temper, says he ‘knows the rules’ at Church of St. Anne, a French territory; incident similar to dust-up with Jaques Chirac in 1996
By AFP and ToI Staff
Former French President Jacques Chirac attends a ceremony in Paris, November 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
September 27, 2019, 1:03 am
How Jacques Chirac started France’s reckoning with the Holocaust
President, who died on Thursday, broke a 50-year taboo in 1995 when he acknowledged France’s role in rounding up Jews for Nazi regime in World War II
By Liam Hoare
France's former president Jacques Chirac in the French Riviera town of Saint-Tropez, August 14, 2011 (SEBASTIEN NOGIER / AFP)
September 26, 2019, 2:03 pm
Former French president Jacques Chirac dies at 86
Career politician, who defiantly opposed the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, was the first French leader to acknowledge his country’s role in the Holocaust
By Elaine Ganley
A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Vertou, western France, during the first round of legislative elections on June 11, 2017. (AFP/Loic Venance)
June 11, 2017, 11:21 am
Macron seeks majority as France votes for new parliament
The president’s untested En Marche party needs a clear majority for him to push through his promised reforms
By Guy JACKSON and Sylvie Groult
French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National party Marine Le Pen delivers a speech during a campaign meeting at the Palais des Congres in Ajaccio on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on April 8, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pascal Pochard-Casabianca)
April 10, 2017, 12:57 pm
Israel slams Marine Le Pen’s Holocaust comments as ‘contradicting historical truth’
French far-right presidential candidate on Sunday denied French culpability for roundups of Jews under Nazi rule
By Stuart Winer and AFP
French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National party Marine Le Pen delivers a speech during a campaign meeting at the Palais des Congres in Ajaccio on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on April 8, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pascal Pochard-Casabianca)
April 10, 2017, 12:43 am
Le Pen: France not responsible for WWII round-up of Jews
Far-right presidential candidate defends comments as Jewish groups slam ‘revisionist’ statement
By AFP
German chancellor Angela Merkel leaves a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin on February 17, 2016. (AFP / Adam BERRY)
December 3, 2016, 5:52 am
Merkel: From austerity queen to ‘leader of free world’
Following rise of Trump, German leader seen by many as new torch-bearer of liberal democracy
By AFP
Marine Le Pen delivering a speech on stage behind a French national flag during the FN's summer congress in Frejus, southern France on September 18, 2016. (AFP / Franck PENNANT)
November 17, 2016, 9:58 am
Trump looms large over French presidential race
Far right party leader Le Pen sees hope in US results, but other candidates also try to make hay, calling for change, rejecting group-thinking and dismissing comparisons to Clinton
By Daphné BENOIT and Clare BYRNE
This photo taken on November 21, 2014 shows French ex-president Jacques Chirac arriving to attend the award ceremony of the Jacques Chirac Foundation at the Quai Branly museum in Paris. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / PATRICK KOVARIK)
September 18, 2016, 5:42 pm
French ex-president Chirac, 83, hospitalized with lung infection
Source close to former leader says he’s conscious; son-in-law says he’ll remain in the hospital in ‘the coming days’
By AFP
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls at the National Assembly in Paris, February 11, 2015 (Patrick Kovarik/AFP)
June 24, 2015, 10:49 pm
France: US must repair relations after spy claims
PM Manuel Valls calls for an intelligence ‘code of conduct’ to be established, denies Paris spies on its allies
By AFP
Former French president and conservative party UMP leader Nicolas Sarkozy gives a speech following the final round of French local elections, in Paris, France, March 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
June 24, 2015, 1:55 am
WikiLeaks: NSA spied on last 3 French presidents
Report follows last year’s revelations of US spying on Germany’s Merkel, sparks anger in Paris
By Angela Charlton and Raphael Satter
Graves of victims of Halabja gas attack in Kurdistan region of Iraq (photo credit: Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
June 11, 2013, 1:40 am
25 years on, Saddam’s Kurdish victims seek justice
Survivors of 1988 Halabja attack demand an investigation of the French company that supplied poison gas to Iraqi government
By Lazar Berman and AP
The French Justice Ministry is reviewing name-change applications on a case-by-case basis. (Croquant via Wikipedia)
April 3, 2013, 4:15 am
French Jews win right to choose their own names
After a historically charged legal fight, Jewish families can revert to their foreign ancestors’ last names
By Rebecca Benhamou
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy (photo credit: Michel Euler/AP)
March 22, 2013, 5:08 am
Sarkozy investigated over campaign financing
Former French president allegedly accepted illegal donation during 2007 presidential run
By Jamie Keaten
French Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti returned six stolen paintings to American heir Thomas Selldorff at Tuesday's ceremony. (Michel Euler/AP)
March 20, 2013, 11:02 pm
France launches drive to find owners of Nazi-stolen art
Yearlong campaign begins with culture ministry’s return of seven looted paintings to surviving heirs
By Rebecca Benhamou
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