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...immigration policies have created considerable antipathy in Algeria - as has the President's refusal to apologize for crimes and abuses committed during France's colonial past. The resentment has even gotten personal: last week, apparently referring to Sarkozy's distant Jewish ancestry, the Algerian Veterans Affairs Minister Mohammed Cherif Abbès described France's "Jewish lobby" as "the real architect of Sarkozy's ascent to power...
...doing so, he must have caught his outspoken detractors off guard. On November 26, the Veterans' Affairs Minister Abbès warned the nation's largest circulation paper el Khabar, that "there will be no normalizing of relations with France under Sarkozy," whose election he accredited to a French "Jewish lobby" that commands "a monopoly of industry in France." In spite of the outcry across France's political spectrum that the comment caused, Bouteflika's repudiation was mild when stating Abbès' analysis "in no way reflects Algeria's [official] view", and said he'd be greeting the French...
Other companies have heard Harvard’s message. The German engineering conglomerate Siemens, the Swiss-based power company ABB, and CHC Helicopter of Canada have all said that they will leave Sudan. In April, Rolls Royce announced it would shut down its activities there as well. “This is a responsible line to adopt in the current circumstances,” the carmaker said...
...widely applauded struggle to defend the rights of women, immigrants and residents of France's blighted housing projects as the head of the group "Ni Putes, Ni Soumises" (Neither Whores Nor Submissive). Hirsch, meanwhile, previously headed an organization caring for and defending the homeless founded by the Abbé Pierre. The recruitment of both well-known leftists was considered as big a coup for Sarkozy as the luring of a Socialist Party figure like Bernard Kouchner to his cabinet. Their declarations will embolden critics from within Sarkozy's own conservative ranks who have long opposed the very policy of "ouverture...
Princeton directed its fund managers to look into its investments in an Indian subsidiary tied to ABB, but eventually determined that the subsidiary had no part in ABB’s Sudan activities...