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IMF boss Christine Lagarde was in a Paris court on Tuesday for the second day of her trial for negligence over a state payout to a tycoon made while she was French finance minister. IMAGES
IMF chief Christine Lagarde went on trial in France on Monday over a massive state payout to a flamboyant tycoon when she was finance minister in a case that risks tarnishing her stellar career. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron holds talks with newly appointed International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva at the Elysee Palace. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the courtroom after the Paris court of appeal lightened a one-year prison sentence for the former French president over illegal campaign financing, saying he needed to spend only half that time behind bars. But while lighter than the original sentence, Wednesday's ruling was still harsher than the one-year suspended sentence that prosecutors called for. IMAGES
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the Paris courthouse to hear the verdict of the appeal trial in the 'Bygmalion' case. Sarkozy was previously sentenced to a year in prison for illegal financing of his 2012 presidential campaign. IMAGES
The President of French centrist party MoDem, François Bayrou, and former Secretary of State to the Minister of the Armed Forces, Geneviève Darrieussecq, arrive at the Paris Court House as they await verdict in their trial. Bayrou and ten senior members of the party are accused of devising a fraudulent scheme to pass some party members as European parliamentary assistants and get them paid as such. IMAGES