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U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade says 13 current and former Detroit Public School principals are charged with engaging in a long-running kickback scheme that netted more than $900,000 in cash and checks.. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
A former US ambassador to Bolivia and member of the National Security Council has been charged with spying for Cuba for 40 years, US Attorney General Merrick Garland announces. "This action exposes one of the highest reaching and longest lasting infiltrations of the US government by a foreign agent," Garland says. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron is launching ETIncelles ('Sparks', ed.), a programme of "special support for high-potential SMEs" with the ambition of becoming intermediate-sized companies (ETIs) by removing "the obstacles to growth". IMAGES (COMPLETE VIDI34486QE_FR)
The Swiss Islamic scholar, Tariq Ramadan, arrives in court in Geneva on the second day of his trial, charged with "rape and sexual coercion", allegations which the former Oxford University professor denies. IMAGES
"We are not candidates for any arrangement, any scheme or any participation in a government with the president”, declares left-wing party La France Insoumise deputy Adrien Quattenens at the end of an interview with Emmanuel Macron. The French President continues his consultations of the political forces, in search of a difficult consensus in the National Assembly, three days after the second round of the legislative elections. SOUNDBITE