Christine Lagarde, boss of the International Monetary fund, is in court in Paris today in connection with a state payout, made while she was French finance minister, to businessman Bernard Tapie ...
A French court is likely to charge IMF boss Christine Lagarde with complicity in fraud and embezzlement of public funds, according to Le Monde newspaper.
The African press is dominated by the situation in Nigeria following President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of a state of emergency in the northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.
The weeklies are dominated by Le Canard Enchaîné’s story line that French President François Hollande has been handed a 2 year so-called “suspended ...
Disappointment and anger are this morning's key words after May Day demonstrations throughout France yesterday against a background of unemployment and economic crisis.
Former French interior minister Claude Guéant has denied accusations that he laundered half a million euros donated by the late Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 ...
27/04/2013
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Pakistan elections 2013 - the parties
A relatively new kid on the Pakistani political block, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) hopes its campaigns against corruption and national pride will bring electoral gains that have so far eluded ...
