Villepin expects formal investigation over smear charges
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Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin said Tuesday he expects to be placed under formal investigation over an alleged smear campaign against President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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A senior prosecutor recommended that Daniel Bouton be questioned by judges in connection with accusations he has made about a rogue traderâs role in SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©raleâs loss of billions of euros.
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The French defense ministry on Saturday called for an internal investigation of the leak of an intelligence document that raises the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan a month ago but said the report of the death remained unverified.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Haitian Prime Minister  Gerard Latortue said on Friday he ordered his justice minister  to obtain an arrest warrant on corruption charges against  ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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The 'Clearstream affair' implicates President Chirac and Prime Minister Villepin in a smear campaign.
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French legal authorities opened Wednesday a preliminary criminal probe into lawmaker Didier Julia and his two aides, who failed a private mission to gain the two French reporters&#39; release in Iraq.
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A long-awaited report into the death of Princess Diana in a Paris car crash due out Thursday is expected to refute theories of a plot by British intelligence targeting her, and confirm a French probe that said it was an accident.
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Prosecutors order a criminal investigation into allegations of perjury during the Tommy Sheridan defamation trial.
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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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Representative William J. Jefferson of Louisiana is expected to be indicted on corruption charges this afternoon.
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The Conservative Party said Monday that it plans to call for an immediate probe into the government&#39;s handling of the US-led war in Iraq.
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Senate Democrats said yesterday they are preparing to subpoena five senior Justice Department officials as part of a widening probe into whether eight U.S. attorneys were fired for political reasons.
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French judges searched the offices of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Friday, a day after targeting his home, as they investigated allegations he unlawfully tried to wreck Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential hopes.
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The French PM is to meet police in Corsica after a suspicious fire damaged the island's parliament.
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Â· Ex-president questioned as immunity comes to endÂ· Party officials said to have been on Paris city payroll
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French judges have placed the head of Warner Music, Edgar Bronfman Jr, under formal investigation as part of a probe into French media giant Vivendi Universal, legal sources told AFP on Thursday.
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A three-year police inquiry into the death of Princess Diana will issue its long-awaited report Thursday amid hopes it would finally halt the speculation about her fatal Paris car crash in 1997.