Ill Chirac will miss cabinet meeting
7th Sep 2005, 15:51 GMT
French President Jacques Chirac - who has been taken to hospital with a vascular problem that has impaired his vision - will skip his weekly cabinet meeting for the first time since taking office in 1995.
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