Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy and former close aides are on trial charged with devising a pact with late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to illegally fund Sarkozy's victorious 2007 ...

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome, August 30, 2010. ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP Nicolas Sarkozy and three former French ministers are among the defendants who have been on trial since Monday ...

The case first came to light in March 2011, when a Libyan news agency reported that the Gaddafi government had financed Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign. In 2014, news outlet French24 reported ...

Gaddafi’s success in buying influence set a precedent, Anas Al-Gomati, Director of Libyan think tank the Sadeq Institute told FRANCE 24. “The blueprint continues today.

In exchange he would help end Gaddafi’s pariah status after the Lockerbie bombing and other attacks. Sarkozy, 69, who remains influential and reportedly sometimes advises president Emmanuel ...

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Mohsin Naqvi on Friday, announced that the inauguration ceremony of the newly-renovated Gaddafi Stadium here will take place in the first week of February ...