PARIS (Reuters) -Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy left his home in Paris hand in hand with his wife Carla Bruni on Tuesday morning to go to the capital’s La Sante prison to start a five-year prison term. (Reporting by Inti Landauro and Clotaire Achi and Manuel Ausloos;Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)
By Juliette Jabkhiro and Layli Foroudi PARIS (Reuters) -Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy heads to jail on Tuesday to serve a five-year prison sentence after being convicted ofcriminal conspiracy in a case related to efforts to obtain campaign financing from Libya during Muammar Gaddafi’s rule. Below are some key facts and details about La Sante …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -American pianist Eric Lu won the top prize at the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw on Tuesday. The decision came after hours of deliberations by a 17-person international jury, chaired by American pianist Garrick Ohlsson. The winner of the 19th edition of the competition receives a 60,000 euro ($69,972) prize and …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Steven Scheer CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -U.S. envoys met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday aiming to corral Israel and Hamas to get the Gaza ceasefire plan back on track after an explosion of violence over the weekend that threatened to derail the week-old truce. Israel and Hamas have both recommitted to …
(Reuters) -The fragility of world security is unmatched since World War Two, requiring willingness to compromise to avoid a new global conflict, Russia’s RIA agency cited Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia’s SVR intelligence service, as saying on Tuesday. “The world is now experiencing the most fragile moment for international security since World War Two, namely …
By Sharon Kimathi LONDON (Reuters) -Global investors managing over $3 trillion in assets called on governments on Monday to stop and reverse deforestation and ecosystem degradation by 2030, in a statement signed ahead of a U.N. climate conference in Brazil next month. Around 30 institutional investors including Swiss private bank Pictet Group and Nordic investor …
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(Reuters) -A new Russian attack on the Ukrainian border region of Chernihiv on Monday knocked out power to stretches of territory in the north of the country, including the main town outside the decommissioned Chornobyl nuclear power station, officials said. The local power company in the region, Chernihivoblenergo, said the latest assault targeted an energy …
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By Max Hunder and Andrea Shalal KYIV/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy painted his meeting last week with Donald Trump as a success that yielded progress on acquiring new air defence systems, a contrast from reports that Trump had berated him with obscenities in the White House. In comments made to media on Sunday initially …
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By Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania’s top court struck down on Monday a government plan to raise the retirement age for judges and prosecutors and cap their pensions, pressuring the months-old broad ruling coalition as it tries to curb the EU’s biggest budget deficit. The Constitutional Court rejected, by five votes to four, proposals to …
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PARIS (Reuters) -One person has died after a tornado struck the Val d’Oise area just to the north of Paris, said French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez on Monday. Nunez said he was monitoring the situation closely, and added several others had been seriously injured as a result of the tornado. (Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing …
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