Prosecutor Opens French Nuke Test Probe
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The Paris prosecutor's office said Wednesday it has opened an investigation into France's controversial nuclear weapons testing program that lasted through 1995.
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France's Justice Ministry orders an inquiry into Jean-Marie Le Pen's alleged claims about wartime Nazi occupation.
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Prosecutors in France begin investigating whether French citizens are joining the ranks of insurgents in Iraq.
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Russian prosecutors on Thursday formally  opened a criminal investigation into the murder of ex-spy  Alexander Litvinenko who died of radiation poisoning in London  on November 23.
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A French Muslim convert suspected of  plotting to attack an Australian nuclear power station went on  trial on terrorism charges in a Paris court on Wednesday.
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Doubts about how much plutonium and uranium is contained in a vast waste tank at Sellafield in Cumbria has led the European commission to prosecute the British government for failing to adhere to proper nuclear safeguards.
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WARSAW -- Polish war crimes prosecutors have opened an investigation into the 1940 massacre in the Katyn forest of more than 21,000 Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviet secret police, authorities said yesterday. Leon Kieres, the head of Poland's National Remembrance Institute, told a news conference that the investigation by 16 of his specialized prosecutors will attempt to add ...
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French police have found two  Russian-made surface-to-air missiles among huge arms caches  uncovered during a swoop against Basque separatist guerrilla  group ETA, officials said on Tuesday.
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Proceedings are due to begin on a case that has scandalised France for over two decades. Twelve Mitterand-era government officials and senior police officers will face trial in Paris for running a phone tapping
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Suspected Islamists arrested by secret  service agents in Paris this week were plotting terrorist  attacks on French and foreign targets in the country, the Paris  public prosecutor's office said on Friday. Anti-terrorism  magistrates are to prosecute three of the 11 people detained in  a series of swoops in a northern district of the French capital  on Monday and Tuesday, the prosecutor's office said in a  statement.
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"I have just lived through ... moments that were not agreeable, but I know that the truth will come out"  Investigators searched the office of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Friday, a day after looking through his home as part of a probe trying to determine who was behind a political smear campaign, a police official said.The investigation arose from an attempt a few years ago to use false accusations of secret bank accounts to taint then Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, a political rival of Villepin who this spring was elected France's president.Investigative Judges Jean-Marie d'Huy and Henri Pons and police from an investigation unit took part in the search of Villepin's office, said the police official, who agreed to discuss the case only if not quoted by name. Read more
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The trial begins of former French foreign minister Roland Dumas accused of corruption over art sales.
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Prosecutors have opened an investigation into suspicions that French Islamic radicals have gone to Iraq to fight alongside militants there, judicial officials said Wednesday.
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Ukrainian prosecutors reopened their probe yesterday into allegations that opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned.
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French prosecutors are investigating a cryptic e-mail sent to an Islamic Web site urging attacks on the capital's mayor and its tourist sites, judicial officials said Wednesday.
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A trial opens in Paris into the late President Francois Mitterrand's  wiretapping of his opponents.
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Authorities are investigating how three workers were exposed to radioactive plutonium during environmental restoration work at the Nevada Test Site, the National Nuclear Security Administration said.