Second French bank suspect freed
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A second man being questioned after huge losses at French bank Societe Generale is freed without charge.
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French police had a second trader in custody Friday in their probe of trades that led to massive losses at bank Soci&#201;t&#201; G&#201;n&#201;rale, the newspaper Le Monde reported
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Two French journalists freed from a  four-month hostage ordeal in Iraq finally found total freedom  on Thursday after being held for a day following their return  home to be debriefed by France's DSGE intelligence service.
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Two French TV journalists are released on bail from prison in Niger and will return to their home country, France says.
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The former head of Bawag, the Austrian bank linked to last yearÂs collapse of the commodities brokerage firm Refco, was arrested in France on fraud charges, Austrian authorities said. French authorities took the former executive, Helmut Elsner, who was BawagÂs general manager, into custody at his villa in southern France, a Justice Ministry spokesman told the Austria Press Agency. Bawag, the acronym for Bank FÃ¼r Arbeit und Wirtschaft A.G., has been under investigation for lending the former chief executive of Refco, Phillip Bennett, several hundred million dollars just before Refco filed for bankruptcy in October.
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An Algerian who has been held without trial or charges since 2001 under anti-terrorism laws was freed by the British government Monday, his lawyer said.
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Would-be robbers took eight people hostage in a bank south of Paris on Tuesday, but all were released unharmed during several hours of negotiations with authorities, and the gunmen were arrested, police said.
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PARIS -- French police were holding a second person for questioning about the loss of billions at bank Societe Generale, a judicial official said Friday.
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The former head of one of Austria's biggest banks, Bawag, is arrested in France on fraud charges authorities say.
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The French Foreign Ministry has confirmed that two French journalists held hostage by an Iraqi insurgency group since August have been released.
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A Paris court sent French trader Jerome Kerviel behind bars Friday, while the investigation into billions of euros (dollars) of losses he allegedly caused for bank Societe Generale took a new twist with a second employee taken into custody.
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A prominent former banker was convicted on Sunday in a $2.2 billion fraud case that drove the Caribbean nation into an economic tailspin four years ago.
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French journalist Gwen Le Gouil, seized by gunmen in Somalia's breakaway Puntland state, is freed, say officials.
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Jerome Kerviel, the rogue trader alleged to have cost his bank billions of euros, is in police custody, reports say.
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Iraqi kidnappers released Jordanian businessman Ziad Jabr Abu Irfai, two weeks after his abduction, following the payment of a ransom, his brother told The Associated Press.
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French police had a second trader in custody Friday in their probe of trades that led to massive losses at bank Societe Generale, respected daily Le Monde reported.
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Two suspects are freed in the Anna Politkovskaya murder probe, fuelling doubts about Russia's investigation.