Trial into France's 'Watergate' opens
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A trial begins in Paris over the late President Francois Mitterrand's  wiretapping of his opponents in the 1980s.
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Twenty-seven people went on trial Monday in western France accused of running a prostitution ring whose profits were laundered via a luxury property development in Thailand.
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Investigating judges plan to file preliminary charges against former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin over a smear scandal targeting Nicolas Sarkozy before he became the French president, Villepin's office said Tuesday.
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French film director Jean-Claude Brisseau is sent to trial for the alleged sexual harassment of four actresses.
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Societe Generale laid out its defense ahead of a high-profile money laundering trial due to begin in Paris on Monday, which could put further pressure on the French bank as it grapples with the effects of a trading scandal.
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The first trial in France over a major environmental disaster will open on Monday  to decide whether oil giant Total and other parties bear responsibility for the massive oil spill from the Erika shipwreck in 1999.
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Allies of Jacques Chirac went on trial on   Monday charged with vote-rigging in Paris at a time when the   French president was city mayor.
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afrol News, 23 August - The trial against 14 foreigners, allegedly plotting a &quot;mercenary invasion to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema,&quot; started today in Equatorial Guinea&#39;s capital Malabo.
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French authorities said Wednesday they had opened a preliminary criminal probe into a lawmaker who headed a failed freelance mission to Iraq to free two French reporters who were finally released by their ...
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A DOZEN former government officials and police officers have gone on trial for tapping phones so late president Francois Mitterrand could keep tabs on personal enemies.
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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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A French art thief who stole dozens of masterpieces in several countries goes on trial in Strasbourg.
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The Miami trial of seven men accused of plotting to blow up U.S. government and commercial buildings opened on Tuesday with the removal of a waist-high curtain designed to hide the suspected terrorists' leg shackles.
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The trial of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi and the estranged husband of Britain's culture minister opened Tuesday with both men facing charges of false accounting, embezzlement and tax fraud in the purchase ...Comment
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A major trial aimed at establishing responsibility for the 1999 inferno in the Mont-Blanc tunnel linking France and Italy that killed 39 people was set to begin in eastern France.
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PARIS, Nov 15  - In an affair described as France&#39;s equivalent of Watergate, 12 former government officials and senior police officers go on trial in Paris Monday for running a phone-tapping operation which was used by the late president Francois
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The trial of 29 suspects opened with hopes that a public forum could offer a catharsis to a nation scarred by the rush-hour train bombings.