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		<title>President Bling-Bling has met his Waterloo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 10:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The Daily Mail (May 7th, 2012) So the French have got their wish: they have evicted the brash, egotistical and hyperactive President Bling-Bling from the Elysee [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The Daily Mail (May 4th, 20120) He cut an unlikely figure as he stood in a corridor of the Bercy Omnisports Arena in Paris last Sunday, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The Daily Mail (April 24th, 2012) However you cut it, Sunday’s presidential election in France was a profoundly depressing result: not just for the French, but [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sarko is heading for the guillotine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The Daily Mail (April 20th, 2012) The rally bore all the hallmarks of a president on a triumphant home run back to the Elysee Palace: the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Massacres, emails, and a modern Marie Antoinette</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in the Daily Mail (March 15th, 2012) Among a stash of emails that emerged yesterday, apparently sent by the Syrian president and his wife, it is the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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