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French PM to impose curfews, deploy police forces to combat rioting

November 7, 2005 03:03:00 PM

As rioting continues to spread in France , Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Monday announced the implementation of curfews and the deployment of 9,500 police officers and...

November 5, 2005 05:00:00 PM

More than 250 people were arrested Friday night in France as rioting spread from the poor suburbs of Paris into the cities of Strasbourg and Rennes. The riots, which began late last week, originated in Parisian ghettos, where jobless...

July 20, 2005 05:44:00 PM

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) will pay $125 million to settle with US regulators. The SEC and the state of New York accused CIBC of lending money to...

May 31, 2005 06:20:00 AM

French President Jacques Chirac has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin just two days after French voters turned down the proposed European constituton in a referendum that...

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France seeks ban on neo-Nazi groups

February 3, 2005 08:39:00 AM

French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin has called on French lawmakers to back a new proposal to break up all neo-Nazi groups numbering some 3,000 in France. De Villepin said the groups were...

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FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover died

Longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover died on May 2, 1972 at age 77, having led the agency since 1924. He built his reputation on battling bootleggers during Prohibition and communist and pro-rights groups after World War II.

Review Hoover's official FBI personnel file, released under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act.

European Central Bank founded

On May 2, 1998, the European Central Bank (ECB) was founded to set monetary policy for the sixteen EU nations who use the Euro as their primary currency.

Learn more about the ECB from the organization's website.