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MARRAKECH, Morocco U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday she continued to expect the U.S. economy would
2023-10-11 16:55

Wisconsin Assembly to vote on early ballot processing bill
Wisconsin elections officials would be able to process absentee ballots the day before an election under a bill scheduled for a vote in the state Assembly on Tuesday
2023-11-09 23:16

Former 'Smallville' actress and high-ranking member of Nxivm group Allison Mack released from prison
Allison Mack, the former "Smallville" actress and high-ranking member of the cultlike group Nxivm who was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021, was released Monday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in online records.
2023-07-05 19:49

Sarkozy to face trial over alleged Gaddafi funding for 2007 presidential campaign
French magistrates have ordered former president Nicolas Sarkozy and 12 others to go on trial on charges that his 2007 presidential campaign received millions in illegal financing from the government of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The national financial prosecutor, Jean-Francois Bohnert, announced that the decade-long investigation has been formally closed. The trial will run from January to April 2025, the statement said. The case is the biggest of multiple corruption investigations involving Sarkozy. He has been convicted in two others. He denies wrongdoing in all cases. In the Libya case, he is charged with illegal campaign financing, embezzling, passive corruption and related counts. Sarkozy has been under investigation in the Libya case since 2013. Investigators examined claims that Gaddafi's government secretly gave Sarkozy 50 million euros (£42 million) for his winning 2007 campaign. The sum would be more than double the legal campaign funding limit at the time and would violate French rules against foreign campaign financing. The investigation gained traction when French-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine told news site Mediapart in 2016 that he had delivered suitcases from Libya containing five million euros (£4.2 million) in cash to Sarkozy and his former chief of staff. Takieddine later reversed course and Sarkozy sought to have the investigation closed. In May, the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) demanded that Sarkozy be tried, citing charges against him of "concealment of laundering public funds, passive corruption, illegal campaign financing and criminal conspiracy with a view to committing a crime punishable by 10 years in jail". Investigating magistrates, who had the last word, gave the go-ahead for a trial, the PNF said. After becoming president in 2007, Sarkozy welcomed Gaddafi to France with high honours later that year. Sarkozy then put France at the forefront of Nato-led air strikes that helped rebel fighters topple Gaddafi's government in 2011. In an unrelated case, Sarkozy was sentenced to a year under house arrest for illegal campaign financing of his unsuccessful 2012 re-election bid. He is free while the case is pending appeal. He was also found guilty of corruption and influence peddling in another case and sentenced to a year under house arrest in an appeals trial in May this year. He took the case to France's highest court, which suspended the sentence. Associated Press Read More French former President Nicolas Sarkozy to go on trial over Libya financing for 2007 campaign Wagner leader ‘killed’ in plane crash: Your questions answered by an expert Minister calls out ‘arsonist scum’ as 79 arrested over Greece wildfires
2023-08-25 22:25

Why does Lionel Richie want to keep his iconic mustache? 'R&B' singer says he likes to keep his 'signature' look uncomplicated
'I'm the guy who obsesses over the fact of is it equal on the left side? On the right side?' Lionel Richie candidly admitted
2023-07-20 02:17

Every player released by Premier League clubs this summer
A full list of all the players released by Premier League clubs at the end of the 2022/23 season.
2023-06-17 23:55

Dodgers place Clayton Kershaw on the injured list due to left shoulder soreness
Clayton Kershaw was placed on the 15-day injured list by the Los Angeles Dodgers before Monday’s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates due to left shoulder soreness
2023-07-04 08:28

'A whole ‘nother album': SZA announces deluxe version of sophomore album 'SOS'
SZA teased that deluxe album 'Lana' is 'like a whole ‘nother album', and will have 'seven to ten songs'
2023-09-10 06:57

Blockbuster heatwave helping drive summer movie box office
What are some of the most packed movie screenings at the Maya Cinemas Fresno 16 in Fresno, California, these days? "Oppenheimer?" The multiplex's dozen daily showings of "Barbie?" Actually, it's the matinees of both.
2023-08-05 22:24

Attacked by Trump, New York judge to weigh ex-president's fraud case
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK Last week, Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner in the 2024 race for the
2023-10-02 18:27

Hamilton will sign new Mercedes deal 'in coming weeks'
Lewis Hamilton on Thursday denied all reports that he has been approached by Ferrari and said he was set to re-sign with...
2023-05-26 01:56

Sheriff says he is 'ashamed' after five of his former deputies plead guilty to torture of two Black men
A Mississippi sheriff said he was "ashamed" and apologized after five of his former deputies pleaded guilty to charges related to the torture of two Black men.
2023-08-05 02:53
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