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French court finds IMF chief guilty in 2008 arbitration case

Monday, 19 December 2016, 16:10 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

The International Monetary Fund's managing director was convicted Monday of negligence by a special French court for her role in a hugely contentious arbitration award to a businessman in...

Jet-setting Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor dies at age 99

Monday, 19 December 2016, 08:58 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Zsa Zsa Gabor, the jet-setting Hungarian actress and socialite who helped invent a new kind of fame out of multiple marriages, conspicuous wealth and jaded wisdom about the glamorous life, died...

France, Russia reach compromise as Aleppo rescue uncertain

Monday, 19 December 2016, 08:06 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

France struck a compromise Sunday with Russia on a U.N. resolution that it said would prevent "mass atrocities" in besieged areas of Aleppo, where thousands of trapped civilians and rebel...

Gunmen kill 10, including Canadian, in attacks on police in Jordan

Monday, 19 December 2016, 07:50 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Gunmen assaulted Jordanian police in a series of attacks Sunday, including at a Crusader castle popular with tourists, killing seven officers, two local civilians and a woman visiting from Canada,...

UK government rejects Farage's ambition to be link to Trump

Sunday, 18 December 2016, 18:11 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

The British government says it doesn't need maverick anti-European politician Nigel Farage to be its go-between with the incoming Trump administration. Senior figures in Prime Minister Theresa...

Boy, 3, out shopping with grandma dies in road rage shooting

Sunday, 18 December 2016, 18:08 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

A 3-year-old boy being taken on a shopping trip by his grandmother was killed in a road rage shooting when a driver opened fire on the grandmother's car because he thought she "wasn't moving fast...

Renzi vows to revamp Italian party, make it more humble

Sunday, 18 December 2016, 18:07 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Recently drubbed by voters, Italian ex-Premier Matteo Renzi on Sunday exhorted his Democratic Party to be more humble and in synch with citizens as he eyes elections widely expected in...

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