France says US claims over Iraqi bribes &quot;unverified&quot;
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PARIS : The accusations made in an official US report that French businessmen and politicians received bribes from Saddam Hussein in order to influence government policy in Iraq are &quot;unverified,&quot; the French foreign ministry said.
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Two separate reports have recently surfaced describing in greater detail allegations of corruption in the United Nations-administered oil-for-food (OFF) program in Iraq and the so-called "oil voucher" scheme by ...
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Paris will deliver confidential documents to U.N. investigators to refute charges in a report published on a CIA Web site that French firms abused the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq, officials said on Monday.
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France's involvement in Ivory Coast receives sceptical scrutiny in several papers.
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Britain says it disagrees with the assessment of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that the invasion of Iraq was illegal. Fresh controversy has erupted over the legality of the US-led invasion of Iraq last year
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United Nations: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has termed the US-led invasion of Iraq &quot;illegal&quot; as it contravened the world body&#39;s charter and said he feared &quot;credible&quot; elections in that country as planned were unlikely to take place given the present
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A lawyer for a US army official claims the FBI is now investigating the controversial awarding of Iraqi contracts to the US giant.
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Two French journalists taken hostage in Iraq are believed to be alive and safe, France&#39;s defence minister has said. But Sunni Muslim clerics in Iraq say efforts to free them are being hampered by the escalation of security operations led by US forces.
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New US charges that it is working with Hizbullah in Iraq.
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The US military says it is investigating claims that 19 US soldiers in Iraq refused to undertake a convoy mission.
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A French bank may have repeatedly violated US money-laundering laws, letting Saddam Hussein rip off the multibillion-dollar UN oil-for-food program, a House investigator said yesterday.
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France's BNP Paribas received hundreds of millions of dollars from the scandal-plagued UN Oil-for-Food program in Iraq, while possibly ignoring rampant abuses in the program, a top US lawmaker charged.
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The Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein issued millions of dollars in lucrative oil export vouchers to leading French, Russian and other foreign politicians as part of a concerted effort to win their assistance in lifting UN sanctions against Iraq, according to a CIA report made public here.
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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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Britain, Australia and a former US official, stung by criticism from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, have insisted that their countries&#39; military action in Iraq was legal.
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DAMASCUS: Iranâs foreign minister challenged US and Iraqi officials to prove their accusations that his country is meddling in Iraqi affairs.
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France backed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's description of the US-led war on Iraq as &quot;illegal&quot; with Foreign Minister Michel Barnier saying that that long-held stance was why his country had opposed joining the conflict.