PARIS (Reuters) - France's justice minister on Wednesday rejected opposition calls for her to resign over her handling of revelations that ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's telephone was being tapped.
Christiane Taubira, accused by the head of the UMP party of misleadingly saying that she was not aware of the phone-tapping, made a special appearance at a regular government news conference to say: "No I did not lie. No I will not resign."
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