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French President Francois Hollande called on Thursday afternoon for a euro zone government with its own budgetary capacity, a harmonized tax system and a president.
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*Gunmen demanded end to French war in Mali. Details remained scant- including for Western governments, some of which did little to disguise irritation at being kept in the dark by Algeria before the raid and its bloody outcome.
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*Gunmen demand end to French war in Mali. In the first official word from Algeria after hours of fast-moving events, government spokesman Mohamed Said was quoted on Thursday evening as saying the operation to free the hostages was still going on and many "terrorists" had been killed.
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*Gunmen demand end to French war in Mali. ALGIERS, Jan 17- Twenty-five foreign hostages escaped and six were killed on Thursday when Algerian forces launched an operation to free them at a remote desert gas plant, Algerian sources said, as one of the biggest internatonal hostage crises in decades unfolded.
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*Gunmen demand end to French war in Mali. ALGIERS/ BAMAKO, Jan 17- Islamist gunmen holding dozens of Western hostages and scores of Algerians at a gas plant deep in the Sahara desert let some them speak to the media on Thursday to warn that they would be blown up if the site is stormed.
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PARIS, Jan 16- French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Wednesday that the country's campaign against al Qaeda- affiliated rebels in Mali would be long, and that French ground troops were deploying in the north. "We're in a better position than last week, but the combat continues and it will be long, I imagine," Le Drian told RTL radio.
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Manji Cheto, West African analyst, tells CNBC that France's aim to be out of Mali in a matter of weeks is extremely unrealistic.
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BAMAKO, Jan 15- France hit Islamist rebels in Mali with fresh air strikes and deployed armoured cars on Tuesday, stepping up its intervention in the West African state as regional allies struggled to accelerate their plans to send in troops.
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BAMAKO, Jan 15- France kept up its air strikes against Islamist rebels in Mali as plans to deploy African troops gathered pace on Tuesday amid concerns that delays could endanger a wider mission to dislodge al Qaeda and its allies.
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BAMAKO/ DUBAI, Jan 15- France will end its intervention in Mali only once stability has returned to the West African country, French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday, raising the prospects of a costly, drawn-out operation against al Qaeda- linked rebels.
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*Mali action, labour reform success to boost Hollande. PARIS, Jan 14- Francois Hollande has shot down the idea that he is a spineless, indecisive president in three days that saw him nail a landmark labour reform, stand up to anti-gay marriage protesters and dispatch troops to Mali.
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Jan 14- Here is a look at Mali since a military coup paved the way for Islamist rebels to take over the country's mostly desert north:. The African Union suspends Mali the next day. One week later on April 6, the rebel group, the Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, proclaims independence for northern Mali, which it names Azawad, after announcing an end to fighting.
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BAMAKO/ PARIS, Jan 14- Al Qaeda- linked Islamist rebels launched a counter-offensive on Monday in central Mali after four days of air strikes by French warplanes on their strongholds in the desert north, promising to drag France into a long and brutal Afghanistan-style ground war.
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*Rebels threaten to strike at France, turn Mali into new Afghanistan. BAMAKO/ PARIS, Jan 14- Al Qaeda- linked Islamist rebels in Mali launched a counter-offensive on Monday after three days of strikes by French fighter jets on their strongholds in the desert north, vowing to drag France into a long and brutal ground war.
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BAMAKO/ PARIS, Jan 13- French fighter jets pounded Islamist rebel strongholds deep in northern Mali on Sunday as Paris poured more troops into the capital Bamako, awaiting a West African force to dislodge al Qaeda- linked insurgents from the country's north.
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*Dislodging al Qaeda from north Mali seen as "massive" task. JOHANNESBURG, Jan 13- France has rushed to help Mali block a push south by Islamist rebels from its desert north but a U.N.-backed intervention plan to dislodge al Qaeda and its allies faces a tough enemy and terrain and could still take months- if it succeeds at all.
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*Mali is Hollande's first military intervention. PARIS, Jan 13- Just as its leaders were defining a new "hands-off" strategy for Africa, France has been thrust onto the front line of one of the continent's riskiest battlefields deep in the desert of Mali.
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BAMAKO/ PARIS, Jan 13- French fighter jets pounded an Islamist rebel stronghold in northern Mali on Sunday as Paris poured more troops into the capital Bamako, awaiting a West African force to dislodge al Qaeda- linked insurgents from the country's north.
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*Mali is Hollande's first military intervention. PARIS, Jan 13- Just as its leaders were defining a new "hands-off" strategy for Africa, France has been thrust onto the front line of one of the continent's riskiest battlefields deep in the desert of Mali.
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*Communications gaffes blights French government. *Anti-business image overshadows pro-growth reforms. PARIS, Jan 10- On the campaign trail, Francois Hollande pleased working-class voters with promises of a super-tax on millionaires and sought to reassure foreign investors with commitments to restore public finances and revive French industry.
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PARIS, Jan 7- French employers will reject moves to overhaul rigid labour rules unless unions drop demands for heavier welfare charges on short-term job contracts, their leader said on Monday, suggesting talks this week could fail.