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-OpEd- PARIS — A sex scandal is again shaking up politics and media in France. Denis Baupin, a a Green Party member and vice president of the National Assembly, who also happens to be husband to the current housing minister, is being investigated after accusations that he harassed many women, including colleagues and elected officials, […]
PARIS — Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former head of the International Monetary Fund whose sexual exploits cost him a shot at the French presidency, has been working as a lobbyist in France for cigarette maker Philip Morris, Le Journal du Dimanche reports. The French weekly cites anonymous sources linked to the U.S. tobacco giant who […]
HUNGARY CLOSES BORDER TO REFUGEES Photo: Geovien So/ZUMA Things are only becoming more difficult for refugees fleeing war in the Middle East. After Germany closed its border Sunday, Austria dispatched its military to control the influx of refugees and several other countries imposed stricter security checks at their borders. And starting today, tough limits on […]
UKRAINE PARTIES REFUSE PULLBACKPhoto: Donetsk airport — Source: Sokolov Mikhail/TASS/ZUMAGovernment forces and pro-Russian rebels have failed to withdraw heavy weapons from the front line despite today’s agreed deadline, The Guardian reports. Fighting has stopped in most areas since a ceasefire began three days ago, but not in the city of Debaltseve where a Ukrainian military […]
Almost four years after the New York trial that ended his political career, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is back in court Monday in a case that once again centers on his sex life. This time, he’s defending himself against charges of “aggravated pimping” related to the presence of prostitutes at sex parties. In the northern France city […]
LE PARISIEN (France) Worldcrunch PARIS – No, Gérard Depardieu has not just been arrested in New York for nothing of the kind.. Instead, this is reportedly the first photo of the new DSK movie, directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Depardieu as the disgraced IMF boss accused and later cleared of raping a maid at […]
And a bit “Poodle” too, according to Marcela Iacub, a lawyer and writer who had an eight-month affair with Strauss-Kahn last year.
LE POINT, LE PROGRÈS (France) Worldcrunch PARIS – It’s been an eventful couple of days for French actor Gérard Depardieu. Or is it Belgian actor Gérard Depardieu? Wait, you said Russian? In case you’re having trouble keeping up with Gégé’s moves, here’s a quick overview of what’s happened the past three days in the life […]
LE POINT (France) Worldcrunch PARIS – Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former leader of France’s Socialist Party and ex-head of the International Monetary Fund, has spent the past year trying to return the focus of attention to his economic acumen. But no doubt, his first interview since September 2011, set to be published in French weekly […]
PARIS – Is there a way that the countries of southern Europe can avoid sinking further into debt at unsustainable interest rates, without resorting to euro bonds, which Germany refuses to consider? Former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has an idea that he presented this past weekend at the YES (Yalta European Strategy) Forum which was […]