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Added on the 17/02/2021 15:37:28 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The judge arrives at Moncloa Palace as Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is set to testify in a preliminary graft probe into his wife's business dealings, a case that has piled pressure on his fragile minority government. He has denied any wrongdoing by his wife, Begona Gomez, and dismissed the allegations as part of a right-wing smear campaign against his leftist government. IMAGES
Israelis protest next to the Sde Teman military base near Beersheba against the detention for questioning of military reservists suspected of abusing a detainee held there. The Sde Teiman facility is known to be holding Palestinians arrested from Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war. IMAGES
Mayor of Saint-Etienne, Gael Perdriau, mired in a case of political blackmail involving a sex tape that has shaken his city since September 2022, is placed in custody by the judicial police of Lyon. The elected official was summoned at the same time as his former private secretary Pierre Gauttieri, his former deputy Samy Kefi-Jerome and the latter's ex-partner, Gilles Rossary-Lenglet. IMAGES
Images show the European Parliament as they vote to lift the immunity of two lawmakers, Belgian MEP Marc Tarabella and Italian MEP Andrea Cozzoli, targeted in a Belgian probe into suspected bribery linked to Qatar and Morocco. IMAGES
South Africa's Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo hands over the first part of a report in a long-awaited probe into state corruption under former president Jacob Zuma to President Cyril Ramaphosa in a ceremony in Pretoria. The remaining two instalments will be handed over in February. At the press conference, President Ramaphosa calls the report "a defining moment in our country's effort to definitely end the era of state capture". IMAGES