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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is calling a meeting of eight Amazon countries next week to forge a common stand ahead of next month's key climate talks, officials said Friday.

Van Rompuy , Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Ashton at the European Union summit at the European Council headquarters in Brussels after the election of the EU president and foreign affairs supremo.

Europe's new president, Herman Van Rompuy, faced a furious backlash in Turkey yesterday amid reports of his hostility to the country's EU membership.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris last week that he wanted to launch talks with Damascus without preconditions, according to Syrian President Bashar Assad's top aide Bouthaina Shaaban.

World soccer's governing body Fifa should order replays of matches where "cheating" affects the outcome, a senior French government minister said on Friday.

France may have painted itself into a corner by pushing state-owned nuclear power group Areva to sell its most profitable unit, and could end up weakening the very domestic industries it is trying to champion.

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France moved a step closer Thursday to issuing billions of euros in bonds to raise money to promote growth industries, even as a leading research group warned it could damage the country's long-term fiscal future.

Belgium's Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy arrives at a news conference after being elected as EU president during a leaders summit in Brussels Thursday.

Recovery in developed economies will accelerate next year due to "substantial improvements" in financial markets and fast-growing Asian countries, but is likely to remain fragile, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said as it doubled its 2010 growth forecast.

Comment about "Brazil and France call for climate concessions" Phone Name Comment 0 Brazil and France call for climate concessions Reuters French President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomes his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva prior to a meeting yesterday at the Elyse presidential Palace in Paris.

Well, that didn't last long. Last week, Syrian President Bashar Assad announced he would resume peace negotiations with Israel without preconditions, but now he suddenly says it's impossible .

Boeing Co. may lose a $7.5 billion jet fighter sale to Brazil unless the U.S. Senate lifts a four- month delay in confirming President Barack Obamaa s nominee for ambassador to Latin Americaa s biggest country, a former top U.S. diplomat to the region said.

France risks attracting the ire of its European neighbours when it unveils plans to raise tens of billions of euros in new borrowing just as its EU partners are being urged to begin reining in the stimulus packages that caused deficits and debts to skyrocket.

European leaders are heading for a fierce battle on Thursday after Germany and France were accused of plotting to bounce their favoured federalist candidate into the post of EU president.

Now that judges have refused to pursue the complaint, observers say, Bongo junior is ready to resume business as usual with his French allies and is due in Paris for a three-day visit and talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy.

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to stay in power to keep hopes for Mideast peace alive.

The European Union is about to pick its very first president, a post conjured up after years of tortuous political machination to give the bloc a unified voice on the world stage.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called on Monday for direct talks with Damascus, two days before his meeting with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, whose country has worked to jump-start negotiations on the Syrian track.

The European Union on Tuesday joined the US in discouraging Palestinian intentions to seek international recognition of an independent state, urging instead a return to stalled peace talks with Israel.