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Nicolas Sarkozy is back at Paris Court House this Friday to answer questions in his appeal trial about illegal campaign financing during his 2012 failed re-election bid. The Former head of state was sentenced to one year's imprisonment in 2021 in what has been dubbed the "Bygmalion case". Conservative Sarkozy has faced a litany of legal problems since his one term in office from 2007 until 2012, and has been charged separately with corruption, bribery, influence-peddling, and breaking campaign financing laws. IMAGES
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives in a Paris court as his appeal hearing opens against a conviction for illegal campaign financing in a failed 2012 re-election bid. IMAGES
For the first time since the opening of the Bygmalion trial, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is present at the hearing. Questioned about excessive spending before the 2012 presidential election, he defended himself from having led a lavish campaign. IMAGES
Exteriors of the courthouse in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory in the Pacific where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appear at a hearing as part of a plea deal that will see him freed. IMAGES
Three decades later, the appeal trial of the non-ministerial financial part of the 'Karachi scandal' opens: six men are suspected of having played a role in a system of kickbacks on arms contracts that boosted the presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur in 1995. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.