The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been handed a prison sentence after being convicted of corruption. The politician, 66, who was president from 2007 to 2012 was convicted on charges of corruption and influence peddling in a Paris court and handed a three-year prison sentence of which two years are suspended. Sarkozy was accused of…
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Former prime minister Jean Chrétien part of secretive project to store nuclear waste in Labrador, emails show
by Sue JonesEmails drafted in 2019 and 2020, obtained by Radio-Canada’s Enquête investigative program, reveal a group of business executives have been discussing a secretive project to bury nuclear waste from foreign countries in Labrador. In an interview with Radio-Canada’s Enquête, former prime minister Jean Chrétien defended the project to store nuclear waste in Labrador, saying Canada has been…
Columbia Law lecturer and former federal defender and civil rights attorney Alexis Hoag shares her analysis on “CBS This Morning” on the…
Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told CNN he believes the coronavirus originally escaped…
More than a decade in the Big Apple! The Real Housewives of New York City premiered in 2008, but not every Housewife…
Peter Veash’s love affair with his converted coach house in Highgate, north London, began years before he had set foot inside it. Now 43, the digital entrepreneur was living in a flat just across the road and would lust after the atmospheric period building in Hornsey Lane as he drove past it each day. ‘I…
Not even our favorite celebrities are immune from experiencing health woes — and many of them are opening up about their battles…
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B.C. ordered to pay $964K to former correctional officer targeted for being Black
by Sue JonesThe B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the province to pay compensation of almost a million dollars to a former corrections officer who was targeted on the job for being Black.Former B.C. Corrections officer Levan Francis faced repeated racial slurs and physical attacks at the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam, B.C. (Ben Nelms/CBC)The…
Vas Morgan has claimed former Towie co-stars uttered vile racial slurs, including the ’n-word’ right in front of him while filming for the show. The 31-year-old, who appeared on the ITV series for four years, from 2014, has spoken openly in the past about his experiences with trolling, receiving cruel messages from the public over…
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Former casino CEO, actress identified as couple who flew to Yukon, got COVID-19 vaccines
by Sue JonesMarried couple Rod and Ekaterina Baker are accused of flouting COVID-19 rules and lying about being local motel workers in order to obtain doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine in Beaver Creek, Yukon, last week. Rod Baker has resigned from his job as CEO of Great Canadian Gaming Corporation.Rod and Ekaterina Baker are accused of…