French spy chief defies inquiry
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A French intelligence officer refuses to give evidence in the Clearstream corruption inquiry.
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France had "taken note" of a U.S. court ruling in the case of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega but an official on Sunday declined comment on his possible extradition to Paris after his U.S. prison term ends.
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Poisoned Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko was no spy for Britain, and such claims are no more than an attempt by the man accused of his murder to shield himself from justice, Litvinenko's widow said in an interview.
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Two of six men acccused of plotting to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Paris denied on Wednesday that they had links to an alleged al-Qaida leader.
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The trader blamed for a $7 billion fraud at French bank Societe Generale is not on the run and will be questioned at an appropriate moment, the Paris prosecutors' office said on Saturday.
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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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French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has denied allegations his government secretly endorsed a failed attempt by maverick congressional deputy Didier Julia to free two journalists held in Iraq.
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MARSEILLE, France : In a major broadside, President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin rejected a senior government minister's idea of using state funds to build mosques and train Islamic ...
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PARIS -- A prominent Swiss Muslim intellectual said yesterday that the United States had dropped charges against him of supporting terrorism, but had refused to scrap an entry ban.
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Civil servant behind one of the biggest frauds in Whitehall history avoids paying confiscation order
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French Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said that there was no reason to suspect poisoning in the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in a Paris hospital last week, in response to a question during a French radio interview.
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LONDON  - The director of a feature-length documentary about the fatal radiation poisoning of a former Russian spy -- set to screen this weekend at the Cannes Film Festival, as a late addition to the lineup -- denied on Wednesday that news of its Official Selection status had been delayed for political reasons.
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Poisoned Russian exile Alexander  Litvinenko was no spy for Britain, and such claims are no more  than an attempt by the man accused of his murder to shield  himself from justice, Litvinenko&#39;s widow said in an interview.
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Scandal-hit French bank Societe Generale opened its own inquiry on Wednesday into how it suffered history's biggest rogue trader loss, but resisted heavy pressure to sack its chairman and CEO.
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Le Pen, Le Cracked A cyber crook has stolen sensitive data from Jean-Marie Le Pen, a far-right contender for president of France. The breach may kill his chances of being able to run for the office.â¦
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi and his predecessor Silvio Berlusconi will not be called to testify on behalf of Italy's former spy chief, who is accused of helping the CIA kidnap a terrorism suspect, a judge ruled on Tuesday.
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Mauritania's security chief denies that an attack on his home was linked to last week's alleged coup plot.