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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, left speaks with French Prime Minister Francois Fillon before the French-Italian summit in Nice, south eastern France, November 30, 2007.
(photo: (AP Photo Eric Gaillard/Pool ) / )
France Moves to Make 'Psychological Violence' a Crime
The New York Times
| PARIS — France’s National Assembly approved on Thursday night a proposal to add “psychological violence” to a law designed to help victims of physical violence and abuse, despite doubts that the law is specific enough to have much impact. | Carefully covering both genders, ...
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, addresses the opening plenary session of the Summit on Climate Change.
(photo: UN / Marco Castro)
French court acquits former French PM in slander trial over alleged role in Sarkozy smears
KDVR
PARIS (AP) — A French court acquitted former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Thursday of playing a role in a smear campaign against President Nicolas Sarkozy, capping a trial that exposed a bitter rivalry between the two politicians. | The acquittal paves the way for Villepin — a...
Power to the people: French reform lets citizens challenge constitutionality of laws
Star Tribune
| PARIS - They are known as "Les Sages" — the wise men — and their role is to judge whether French laws are constitutional. As a massive reform expanding their powers went into effect Monday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy ins...
France Moves to Make 'Psychological Violence' a Crime
The New York Times
| PARIS — France’s National Assembly approved on Thursday night a proposal to add “psychological violence” to a law designed to help victims of physical violence and abuse, despite doubts that the law is specific enough to hav...
Crystal Bowersox Wows "Idol" Judges
CBS News
Simon Cowell says he "Completely Underestimated" Dreadlocked Singer Prior to Comeback Performance | Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments | In this publicity image released by Fox, "American Idol" season nine contestant, Crystal Bowersox, of Ellist...
France orders 5 former Gitmo inmates back to court
Zeenews
Paris: France's highest court on Wednesday overruled a lower court's acquittal of five former inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison and ordered an appeals court to rehear the case centring on terrorism charges. | The Court of Cassation did not immedia...
France orders 5 former detainees back to court
The Miami Herald
| PARIS -- France's highest court on Wednesday overruled a lower court's acquittal of five former inmates at the Guantánamo Bay prison and ordered an appeals court to rehear the case centering on terrorism charges. | The Court of Cassation did not im...
France Orders 5 Former Gitmo Inmates Back to Court
The New York Times
| Filed at 4:18 p.m. ET | PARIS (AP) -- France's highest court on Wednesday overruled a lower court's acquittal of five former inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison and ordered an appeals court to rehear the case centering on terrorism charges. | The ...
Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin arrives at the Paris courthouse, Monday Oct. 12, 2009,
AP / Jacques Brinon
French court to give verdict on former PM smear trial
BBC News
| A Paris court is due to hand down its verdict in the trial of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. | He is accused of plotting to discredit the then interior minister and...
Polish movie director Roman Polanski gestures as he is awarded with 'The European Contribution to World Cinema' in a ceremony by the European Film Academy at the Schiller Theater in Berlin, Saturday, Dec. 4, 1999.
AP
Judge orders French publications to pay damages to Polanski and family
KDVR
PARIS (AP) — A Paris judge ordered three French publications Tuesday to pay damages to Roman Polanski and his family for printing unauthorized photos — but the sums wer...
France orders 5 former Gitmo inmates back to court
The News & Observer
| PARIS -- France's highest court has overruled a lower court's acquittal of five former inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison and ordered an appeals court to rehear the case centering on terrorism charges. | The Court of Cassation did not immediately...
France orders 5 former Gitmo inmates back to court
Newsvine
PARIS — France's highest court has overruled a lower court's acquittal of five former inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison and ordered an appeals court to rehear the case centering on terrorism charges. | The Court of Cassation did not immediat...
France orders 5 former Gitmo inmates back to court
Wtop
| PARIS (AP) - France's highest court has overruled a lower court's acquittal of five former inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison and ordered an appeals court to rehear the case centering on terrorism charges. | The Court of Cassation did not immedia...
France Orders 5 Former Gitmo Inmates Back To Court
CBS News
Top French Court Overrules Acquittals Of 5 Former Guantanamo Inmates Facing Terror Charges | Font size Print E-mail Share (AP) PARIS (AP) - France's highest court has overruled a lower court's acquittal of five former inmates at the Guantanamo Bay pr...
France orders 5 former Gitmo inmates back to court
Tulsa World
PARIS — France's highest court has overruled a lower court's acquittal of five former inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison and ordered an appeals court to rehear the case centering on terrorism charges. | The Court of Cassation did not immediately ...
Business Law
Clusters of ripe and unripe pinto noir grapes. Throughout the history of wine, wine makers would use the sugar and acid levels of the grape as a guide in determining ripeness. Early wine makers would taste the grape to get this gauge but more modern wine making would use a refractometer to get a measure of the sugar levels in the form Brix and a titration test (using an indicator such as phenolphthalein) to determine the titratable acidity within the grape.
(photo: Creative Commons / Olivier Vanp)
France wine producers guilty of US scandal
BBC News
| A dozen French winemakers and traders have been found guilty of a massive scam to sell 18 million bottles of fake Pinot Noir to a leading US buyer. | The judge in Carcassonne, south-west France, said the producers and traders had severely damaged the reputation of the Langedoc region. | The 12 more than doubled profits passing off the wine to E a...
Corruption
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, shakes hands with unidentified political leaders from the French Caribbean islands before a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday Feb. 19, 2009. Protesters in Martinique and Guadeloupe have persisted with a work stoppage to demand higher salaries and lower prices, hurting scores of businesses including restaurants, hotels and car rental agencies during the islands' peak winter tourist season. Violent strikes in Guadeloupe have left one man dead, piles of smelly uncollected garbage in the streets, and stores looted
(photo: AP / Regis Duvignau, Pool)
Prosecutors appeal former French PM smear ruling
The Star
| PARIS (Reuters) - French prosecutors will appeal against a judgment clearing former prime minister Dominique de Villepin of involvement in a plot to smear his rival Nicolas Sarkozy. Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin speaks to the media as he leaves after the verdict in the so-called "Clearstream case" at the courthouse in Paris J...



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