Chirac calls for airline tax to help Africa on contentious Japan visit (AFP via Yahoo! News)

French President Jacques Chirac called for a tax on airline fuel and tickets by the end of the year to fight epidemics in Africa in what could be a test for a more far-reaching tax on financial transactions.

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Posted March 28, 2005

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