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France's Sarkozy Wins Battle to Pull Secret Recordings

A French court on Friday ordered a news website to withdraw recordings an adviser secretly took of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy during his 2012 election campaign. In an emergency ruling sought by Sarkozy, who is expected by many to enter the next presidential contest in 2017, the Paris court also ordered the adviser, Patrick Buisson, to make a damages downpayment of 10,000 euros ($13,900) to the conservative leader and wife Carla Bruni. Revelations in early March that Buisson, once...

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