Paris, Apr. 11 : French president Nicolas Sarkozy has received a letter containing two bullets, prompting speculation that one was intended for him and the other for his wife, Carla Bruni.
It is the second time in a month the president has been sent death threats by post, but the first time France''s First Lady has potentially been targeted.
The menacing package, which was addressed to Sarkozy, was delivered to the Elysée palace on Thursday, the Scotsman reports.
Paris - French naval forces overwhelmed pirates who had seized a private yacht in the Indian Ocean a week ago, but at the cost of the lives of one of the hostages and two pirates, Paris disclosed Friday evening. The presidential office said the three other pirates involved in the capture of the yacht Tanis on April 4 had beencaptured.
President Nicolas Sarkozy expressed his condolences to the family of the hostage who had died. He stressed France's determination not to give in to blackmail and to keep the pirates in check.
Strasbourg, France - Many demonstrators came to march for peace, but instead there was violence as masked rioters unleashed an orgy of destruction in Strasbourg on Saturday, burning a hotel, a tourist bureau and a pharmacy.
The scene, the approaches to the Pont de l'Europe road bridge, was just a couple of hundred metres away from a footbridge over the Rhine River where President Nicolas Sarkozy had welcomed the other 27 leaders of NATO to a summit Saturday.
Smiles in the morning. Grim skirmishing in the afternoon.
Paris - US President Barack Obama and his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, were to meet in the French city of Strasbourg on Friday for their first head-to-head meeting since Obama's election to the White House.
The meeting was to take place at lunchtime, ahead of a NATO summit in Strasbourg and in the German cities of Kehl and Baden-Baden.
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said on Wednesday that their two countries were preparing a proposal for a new world governance to prevent future economic crises caused by a lack of regulation.
"We want (at least) a minimum of regulation in the face of the disaster that has been caused by total deregulation," Sarkozy told journalists in Paris after a meeting with Lula just hours before the two were to travel on to London for the G20 summit.
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday it was essential that this week's G20 summit in London take concrete steps to sanction uncooperative tax havens.
"It is unacceptable and incomprehensible if concrete regulations cannot be applied in the coming days or weeks" to offshore tax havens that do not share information about their accounts, Sarkozy told Europe 1 radio.
Paris, Apr. 11 : French president Nicolas Sarkozy has received a letter containing two bullets, prompting speculation that one was intended for him and the other for his wife, Carla Bruni.
Paris - French naval forces overwhelmed pirates who had seized a private yacht in the Indian Ocean a week ago, but at the cost of the lives of one of the hostages and two pirates, Paris disclosed Friday evening. The presidential office said the three other pirates involved in the capture of the yacht Tanis on April 4 had beencaptured.
Strasbourg, France - Many demonstrators came to march for peace, but instead there was violence as masked rioters unleashed an orgy of destruction in Strasbourg on Saturday, burning a hotel, a tourist bureau and a pharmacy.
Paris - US President Barack Obama and his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, were to meet in the French city of Strasbourg on Friday for their first head-to-head meeting since Obama's election to the White House.
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said on Wednesday that their two countries were preparing a proposal for a new world governance to prevent future economic crises caused by a lack of regulation.
