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A Paris court on Monday found French former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling and sentenced him to one year in prison and a two-year suspended sentence. The 66-year-old politician, who was president from 2007 to 2012, was convicted for having tried to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014 about a legal action in which he was involved. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy attends the inauguration of the Institut Claude Pompidou, a new centre for care and research of Alzheimer disease, in Nice in this March 10, 2014 file photo. mizuno REUTERS The court said Sarkozy is entitled to request to be detained at home with an electronic bracelet.This is the first time in France s modern history that a former president has been convicted of corruption.Sarkozy s co-defendants - his lawyer and longtime friend Thierry Herzog, 65, and now-retire yeezy d magistrate Gilbert Azibert, 74 - were also found guilty and given the same sentence as the politician.The court found that Sarkozy and his co-defendants sealed a pact of corruption, based on consistent and serious evidence . The court said the facts were particularly serious given that they were committed by a former president who used his status to help a magistrate who h adidas originals ad served his personal interest. In addition, as a lawyer by training, he was perfectly informed about c Hhng More than 100 killed in Syria assault on Damascus suburb
WASHINGTON stanley cup - President Obama voiced condolences to Japan Friday for the people who perished in a massive earthquake, saying the United States stands ready to help in any way it can.At the same time, Obama said in a statement that his administration will continue to closely monitor tsunamis around Japan and the Pacific going forward. The Navy has ships all over the Pacific preparing to head for Japan or already steaming there, CBS News senior national security correspondent David Martin reports. The carrier George Washington is in Yokosuka but has not been told to deploy, probably because it is undergoing repairs. The carrier Reagan is en route but 28 hours away. Two amphibious ships - one in Japan and one in Malaysia - are also making preparations to get under way.Tsunami slams Japan after massive earthquakeHawaii, U.S. West Coast under tsunami warningWitness: Japan quake a terrifying sensation The largest earthquake in Japan s history 151; measured at a magnitude of 8.9 151; pummeled the eastern coast of Japan Friday, accompanied by a towering tsunami. Hundred stanley quencher s of people were killed.Obama said he has told the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be ready to assist Hawaii and any other U.S. states and territories that might be affected. He said he s ready to support the Japanese people in this time of great trial. The friendship and alliance between our two nations is unshakeable, he said, and only strengthens our resolve to stand with the people of J
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LIMA, Peru -- Rescuers were working Friday to save an injured Spanish speleologist who has been trapped for more than a week about 1,300 feet underground in a cave in Peru s remote Amazon regio dunk panda n. Cecilio Lopez was hurt when he fell 16 feet inside the Inti Machay cave in a ravine in Leimebamba district, 376 miles northeast of the capital, Lima.Rescue coordinator James Apaestegui said a doctor had reached Lopez and found the well-known cave explorer had two damaged lumbar vertebrae that limit his movement. Cecilio Lopez is lying face up. He can move laterally but he cannot stand up, said Apaestegui, who is a researcher at the Geophysical Institute of Peru and President of the Andino Caving Club.Rescuers said they have been getting food, water and medicine to hoka Lopez, but his e yeezy xtraction has been made difficult by the remoteness of the cave and the cavern itself, which narrows at places. He s accompanied by someone at all times , and is waiting for the stretcher to arrive to begin the evacuation, Apaestegui said, adding that Lopez was in good spirits.Foreign and Peruvian cavers are trying to rescue Lopez, including a large contingent from Spain. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-61f58db7-81d9-465c-87b1-1b13ff840d41, right-rail-recirc-item--id-61f58db7-81d9-465c-87b1-1b13ff840d41 display: none; inline-recirc-it Mwik At least 12 killed, dozens hurt in stampede at El Salvador soccer match
Black smoke wafted from the Sistine Chapel s chimney Monday evening, signaling that the cardinals sequestered inside had failed to elect a new leader. Thus ended the first day of the first papal conclave of the new millennium to elect a pope to lead the world s 1.1 billion Roman Catholics.Vatican Radio pronounced the smoke black, meaning the 115 voting princes of the church would retire for the night and return to the chapel Tuesday morning for two more r stanley kubek ounds of balloting in their search for a successor to Pope John Paul II. If those rounds fai stanley bottles l to produce a pope, the cardinals will hold two additional rounds Tuesday afternoon.Some 40,000 people who packed St. Peter s Square to stare at the stovepipe jutting from the chapel roof shouted, It s black! It s black! and snapped photos.The cardinals, from six cont stanley cup inents and representing 52 countries, began their secret deliberations late in the afternoon after the massive doors of the chapel, which is decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo and wired with electronic jamming devices to thwart eavesdropping, were ceremonially closed.Before sequestering themselves inside the chapel, the cardinals read out an oath of secrecy led by German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who stood before a large crucifix adorned with a golden Jesus. One by one, they filed up to a Book of the Gospels, placed their right hands on it and pronounced a second oath to keep secret their deliberations to elect a successor to Pope John Paul II, who died April 2
A Paris court on Monday found French former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling and sentenced him to one year in prison and a two-year suspended sentence. The 66-year-old politician, who was president from 2007 to 2012, was convicted for having tried to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014 about a legal action in which he was involved. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy attends the inauguration of the Institut Claude Pompidou, a new centre for care and research of Alzheimer disease, in Nice in this March 10, 2014 file photo. mizuno REUTERS The court said Sarkozy is entitled to request to be detained at home with an electronic bracelet.This is the first time in France s modern history that a former president has been convicted of corruption.Sarkozy s co-defendants - his lawyer and longtime friend Thierry Herzog, 65, and now-retire yeezy d magistrate Gilbert Azibert, 74 - were also found guilty and given the same sentence as the politician.The court found that Sarkozy and his co-defendants sealed a pact of corruption, based on consistent and serious evidence . The court said the facts were particularly serious given that they were committed by a former president who used his status to help a magistrate who h adidas originals ad served his personal interest. In addition, as a lawyer by training, he was perfectly informed about c Hhng More than 100 killed in Syria assault on Damascus suburb
WASHINGTON stanley cup - President Obama voiced condolences to Japan Friday for the people who perished in a massive earthquake, saying the United States stands ready to help in any way it can.At the same time, Obama said in a statement that his administration will continue to closely monitor tsunamis around Japan and the Pacific going forward. The Navy has ships all over the Pacific preparing to head for Japan or already steaming there, CBS News senior national security correspondent David Martin reports. The carrier George Washington is in Yokosuka but has not been told to deploy, probably because it is undergoing repairs. The carrier Reagan is en route but 28 hours away. Two amphibious ships - one in Japan and one in Malaysia - are also making preparations to get under way.Tsunami slams Japan after massive earthquakeHawaii, U.S. West Coast under tsunami warningWitness: Japan quake a terrifying sensation The largest earthquake in Japan s history 151; measured at a magnitude of 8.9 151; pummeled the eastern coast of Japan Friday, accompanied by a towering tsunami. Hundred stanley quencher s of people were killed.Obama said he has told the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be ready to assist Hawaii and any other U.S. states and territories that might be affected. He said he s ready to support the Japanese people in this time of great trial. The friendship and alliance between our two nations is unshakeable, he said, and only strengthens our resolve to stand with the people of J
Kfov Palestinians OK U.S. Proposal on Settlements
LIMA, Peru -- Rescuers were working Friday to save an injured Spanish speleologist who has been trapped for more than a week about 1,300 feet underground in a cave in Peru s remote Amazon regio dunk panda n. Cecilio Lopez was hurt when he fell 16 feet inside the Inti Machay cave in a ravine in Leimebamba district, 376 miles northeast of the capital, Lima.Rescue coordinator James Apaestegui said a doctor had reached Lopez and found the well-known cave explorer had two damaged lumbar vertebrae that limit his movement. Cecilio Lopez is lying face up. He can move laterally but he cannot stand up, said Apaestegui, who is a researcher at the Geophysical Institute of Peru and President of the Andino Caving Club.Rescuers said they have been getting food, water and medicine to hoka Lopez, but his e yeezy xtraction has been made difficult by the remoteness of the cave and the cavern itself, which narrows at places. He s accompanied by someone at all times , and is waiting for the stretcher to arrive to begin the evacuation, Apaestegui said, adding that Lopez was in good spirits.Foreign and Peruvian cavers are trying to rescue Lopez, including a large contingent from Spain. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-61f58db7-81d9-465c-87b1-1b13ff840d41, right-rail-recirc-item--id-61f58db7-81d9-465c-87b1-1b13ff840d41 display: none; inline-recirc-it Mwik At least 12 killed, dozens hurt in stampede at El Salvador soccer match
Black smoke wafted from the Sistine Chapel s chimney Monday evening, signaling that the cardinals sequestered inside had failed to elect a new leader. Thus ended the first day of the first papal conclave of the new millennium to elect a pope to lead the world s 1.1 billion Roman Catholics.Vatican Radio pronounced the smoke black, meaning the 115 voting princes of the church would retire for the night and return to the chapel Tuesday morning for two more r stanley kubek ounds of balloting in their search for a successor to Pope John Paul II. If those rounds fai stanley bottles l to produce a pope, the cardinals will hold two additional rounds Tuesday afternoon.Some 40,000 people who packed St. Peter s Square to stare at the stovepipe jutting from the chapel roof shouted, It s black! It s black! and snapped photos.The cardinals, from six cont stanley cup inents and representing 52 countries, began their secret deliberations late in the afternoon after the massive doors of the chapel, which is decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo and wired with electronic jamming devices to thwart eavesdropping, were ceremonially closed.Before sequestering themselves inside the chapel, the cardinals read out an oath of secrecy led by German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who stood before a large crucifix adorned with a golden Jesus. One by one, they filed up to a Book of the Gospels, placed their right hands on it and pronounced a second oath to keep secret their deliberations to elect a successor to Pope John Paul II, who died April 2
