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IMF boss Christine Lagarde is undergoing a second day of grilling by a French court on her conduct during a disputed arbitration payment to one of France’s most colourful but controversial personalities.
The hearings could lead to Lagarde being placed under formal investigation for misuse of public funds and conspiracy to fraud. She is not accused of personally profiting from her decision when she was French finance minister in 2007, but of facilitating the payment of over 400 million euros to high profile businessman Bernard Tapie.
A one-time socialist minister who was jailed for match-fixing involving his football team Olympique Marseille, Tapie sold the sports equipment firm Adidas in the 1990s to the state-owned Credit Lyonnais bank. It went bust, the state picked up the pieces, and a long-running legal dispute ensued with Tapie claiming he had been defrauded.
It is alleged that Christine Lagarde approved the compensation deal for Tapie in connection with his decision to switch sides from the socialists and instead support former President Sarkozy. She denies the claims, insisting any action she took was to protect the French taxpayer from the costs of the interminable legal wrangle.
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As Stockholm wakes up after a fifth consecutive night of rioting, questions are increasingly being asked about the root causes.
A police station, schools and cars in several surburbs of the Swedish capital were the latest victims of Thursday night’s public disorder.
Stockholm is one of the richest cities among countries that are part of the international economic organisation – the OECD. However, Sweden has the the fastest growing inequality of any OECD nation.
Some 15 percent of Sweden’s population is foreign-born. Immigrant communities are the worst affected by youth unemployment and poverty.
Although the Nordic country is known for its generous welfare system, benefits have been reduced and taxes lowered during the seven years centre-right Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has been in charge.
In addition, anti-immigrant party the Sweden Democrats are third in the polls ahead of a general election next year.
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There are fears that militant violence in West Africa is spreading after a double suicide attack in Niger which left more than 20 people dead, mostly soldiers.
They are the first such attacks experienced by the country which is involved in a French-led offensive in neighbouring Mali against Islamist rebels.
At Agadez in the north, around 20 troops were killed and 16 others injured when the bombers attacked an army barracks. A French-run uranium mine at Arlit was also targeted.
The MUJWA, a West African offshoot of al Qaeda’s North African wing has claimed responsibility. The group was among Islamist forces ousted from northern Mali earlier this year.
The Algerian commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar “supervised” the attacks, according to a Mauritanian news agency. In March the Chadian army said it had killed him but this was never confirmed.
Security had been stepped up at the uranium mine operated by the French nuclear group Areva. A car bomb there left one person dead and many injured.
The attacks are seen as evidence that the conflict in Mali is spilling over.
The French President Francois Hollande has vowed to protect his nation’s interests and to support Niger in its “fight against terrorism”.
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