Sarkozy calls Cesaire 'great man'
                   
newsvine.com     Apr 20, 2008            

French President Nicolas Sarkozy hailed the late French Martinican poet and politician Aime Cesaire on Sunday as a great man whose anti-colonialist philosophy had worldwide influence. ... Sarkozy credited Cesaire — an early proponent of black pride who died last Thursday... [read full story]                    


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US Dispatches Destroyers To Black Sea As Rice Says No New Cold War

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Russian general says Georgia 'regrouping' forces A senior Russian commander said Wednesday that Georgian forces were "regrouping" in preparation for new aggression, in violation of a ceasefire accord, but Tbilisi swiftly denied...                    

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Blast kills three NATO soldiers in Afghanistan

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KABUL (Reuters) - Three soldiers from the NATO-led force were killed in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan, the alliance said on Thursday, the latest foreign casualties in a week of rising violence. The soldiers were...                    

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Artist's Pointed Critique Is Barred

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Zhang Hongtu's "Bird's Nest, in the Style of Cubism" was supposed to be exhibited during the Beijing Olympic Games, but it was seized by Customs on arrival and denied entry as "unacceptable" for its color, its depiction of the...                    

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Martinique man found guilty of burning woman

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FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique — A jury in Martinique has found a man guilty of murder after he set his ex-girlfriend on fire in front of town hall three years ago. The public violent act occurred early in the evening and shocked residents and police in the normally quiet capital of Fort-de-France.                    

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