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Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey leaves Westminster Magistrates' Court after being given unconditional bail. He appeared at the London court to face charges of sex offences against three men. Deputy Chief Magistrate Tan Ikram told the 62-year-old actor that the next hearing had been set for July 14 at Southwark Crown Court, in south London. IMAGES
Santo Domingo, Oct 14 (EFE).- The trial of the Odebrecht case, the biggest corruption scandal ever tried in the Dominican Republic, ended on Thursday with only two convictions, of a former minister and the former representative in the country of the Brazilian construction company.Former minister Víctor Díaz Rúa was sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering, while businessman Ángel Rondón was sentenced to eight years, after being found guilty of distributing the millionaire bribes and money laundering. (Camera: MARÍA MONTECELOS VILLODRES). SHOT LIST: A HEARING HELD ON THURSDAY IN THE FIRST COLLEGIATE COURT OF THE NATIONAL DISTRICT IN SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
Two former French air force pilots go on trial in France, six years after they fled the Dominican Republic following a spectacular drugs bust on a private jet in the Caribbean nation. In what has become known as the "Air Cocaine" case, Pascal Fauret and Bruno Odos are accused along with seven other defendants of trying to smuggle 680 kilogrammes (1,500 pounds) of the drug out of the country. IMAGES
While tension and violence caused by criminal gangs persist in Haiti's capital, in the border province of Dajabon, in the Dominican Republic, commercial exchange continues as normal. Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, has been in turmoil for years with armed gangs taking over parts of the country and unleashing brutal violence that has left its economy and public health system in tatters. 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