Prosecutor calls for shorter political ban on disgraced former French PM
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The prosecution at an appeal hearing by former French prime minister Alain Juppe, found guilty on corruption charges, called on the court Wednesday to slash the period of his disqualification from public office ...
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Rwandan Justice Minister Tharicisse Karugarama called Tuesday for legal proceedings against French politicians who ignored signs of the 1994 genocide in his country.
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Investigators searched the home of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Thursday, thrusting him back into the center of a political scandal, a judicial official said.
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War crimes prosecutors have demanded a life sentence for a former top Bosnian Serb politician charged with genocide for allegedly helping orchestrate atrocities during Bosnia's 1991-95 war.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, given until tonight by kidnappers of two French reporters to revoke a law banning the Muslim headscarf in state schools, called an emergency cabinet meeting for this morning.
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A special prosecutor aims to hold former political leaders accountable for deaths and disappearances during the country's "dirty war."
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An Italian prosecutor asked a court on  Friday to sentence Silvio Berlusconi to eight years in jail for  bribing judges as the prime minister's four-year corruption  trial reached its closing stages.
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Nicolas Sarkozy's ex-wife Cecilia went to court Thursday seeking to block the release of a book in which the former first lady is quoted as describing the French president in unflattering terms.
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Justice Department lawyers asked a federal court Tuesday to extradite former Panamanian President Manuel Noriega to France when his U.S. prison term ends later this summer.
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Ex-French President Francois Mitterrand's son gets a suspended 30-month jail sentence for tax evasion.
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A Paris court on Friday gave French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen a three-month suspended prison sentence and a $14,500 fine for denying the brutality of the Nazis' World War II occupation of France.
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The chief prosecutor in the corruption trial of Silvio Berlusconi yesterday requested an eight-year jail sentence for the media tycoon turned prime minister.
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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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An Italian prosecutor asked a court yesterday to sentence Silvio Berlusconi to eight years in jail for bribing judges as the prime minister&#39;s four-year corruption trial reached its closing stages.
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France's interior minister and presidential frontrunner Nicolas Sarkozy stood accused by top judges Thursday of undermining the work of the judiciary after he lashed out at the courts of a riot-hit Paris suburb ...Comment
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The French parliament discusses a tough crime bill amid a row over new Justice Minister Rachida Dati.
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An appeals court in France cuts a ban on former Prime Minister Alan Juppe holding public office from 10 years to one.