Prosecutor Opens French Nuke Test Probe
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The Paris prosecutor's office said Wednesday it has opened an investigation into France's controversial nuclear weapons testing program that lasted through 1995.
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French prosecutors are investigating a cryptic e-mail sent to an Islamic Web site urging attacks on the capital's mayor and its tourist sites, judicial officials said Wednesday.
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Investigating judges plan to file preliminary charges against former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin over a smear scandal targeting Nicolas Sarkozy before he became the French president, Villepin's office said Tuesday.
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A French Muslim convert suspected of hatching plots to blow up a nuclear reactor and military installations in Australia is to go before a Paris criminal court from Wednesday.
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A prosecutor on Monday launched an investigation against former prime minister Ivan Kostov on suspicion he used money from state firms to fund his party, the Info Radio reported.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa  - South African  authorities have arrested one person in an investigation into  contraventions of laws on weapons of mass destruction and  nuclear energy, the government said Thursday.
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The first trial in France over a major environmental disaster will open on Monday  to decide whether oil giant Total and other parties bear responsibility for the massive oil spill from the Erika shipwreck in 1999.
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Russia's security agency said Friday that it has opened an espionage case in connection with claims made by Andrei Lugovoi, the suspect named by Britain in the radiation poisoning death of former agent Alexander Litvinenko in London last year.
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French police have found two Russian-made surface-to-air missiles among huge arms caches uncovered during a sweep against Basque separatist guerrilla group ETA in southwestern France, officials said on Tuesday.
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German police have uncovered a  radioactive trail linked to what prosecutors believe could be a  possible suspect in the murder of a former Russian spy in  London last month.
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France's highest court paved the way Friday for a trial of officials being investigated in connection with the 2000 crash of a Concorde jet that killed 113 people.
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French police have found two Russian-made surface-to-air missiles among huge arms caches uncovered during a swoop against Basque separatist guerrilla group ETA, officials said on Tuesday.
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French legal authorities opened Wednesday a preliminary criminal probe into lawmaker Didier Julia and his two aides, who failed a private mission to gain the two French reporters&#39; release in Iraq.
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French judges searched the offices of  former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Friday, a day  after targeting his home, as they investigated allegations he  unlawfully tried to wreck Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s presidential hopes.
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French prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into whether President Nicolas Sarkozy received a substantial discount when he purchased an apartment in a rich suburb of Paris when he was mayor in 1997, judicial officials said Wednesday.
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German authorities are investigating a Russian businessman after finding traces of polonium 210 four days before he met with Alexander V. Litvinenko.
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A total of 16 people and companies appear in court in eastern France tomorrow for a mammoth three-month trial that will seek to determine responsibility for one of historys worst tunnel disasters.