2012

AFP - France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy named Prime Minister Francois Fillon head of a streamlined and more right-wing government, setting the stage for his undeclared 2012 re-election bid.

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Reuters - More than half of France’s voters would prefer a candidate from the political left to conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy for the 2012 election, a survey said on Sunday.

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AP - Israel’s hard-line foreign minister said Tuesday that there was “no chance” a Palestinian state would be established by 2012 — a message that threatened to cloud the latest…