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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy starts five-year jail term

Sarkozy was convicted of criminal conspiracy for seeking campaign funds for the 2007 election from Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.

21 Oct 2025

France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy has arrived at a prison in Paris to start serving a five-year jail sentence.

The 70-year-old leader arrived at La Sante prison in a police car on Tuesday morning, becoming the first former head of an European Union state to be jailed.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/21/former-french-president-nicolas-sarkozy-starts-five-year-jail-term

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Europe backs Trump's Ukraine peace push as Kremlin hedges on summit

AFP

Tue, October 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM MDT

European leaders Tuesday threw their support behind President Donald Trump's peace push for Ukraine, while reaffirming their red lines, as the Kremlin cast doubt on chances of an imminent summit between the US leader and Vladimir Putin.

Fresh from his Gaza peace deal, Trump has resumed the search for an elusive breakthrough in Ukraine, as the war grinds into its fourth year since Russia's invasion, through contacts with both Kyiv and Moscow.

The likelihood of a Trump-Putin summit taking place in Budapest within two weeks, as promised by the US leader, appeared to recede Tuesday as Moscow warned laying the groundwork "could take time".

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/europe-backs-trumps-ukraine-peace-133143237.html?