French ex-PM Édouard Balladur goes on trial over corruption
(WorldNews Europe)

Former French Prime Minister Édouard Balladur has gone on trial over charges of financing his failed presidential campaign in the 1990s with illegal kickbacks from arms deals with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Balladur on Tuesday appeared at the Court of Justice of the Republic, which hears cases involving ministerial misconduct. Also in the dock was Balladur`s former defense minister,...