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Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who partly ran an investment company that is being sued for alleged fraud, will file a suit next week for defamation, his lawyer Jean Veil told AFP today.

On Monday, exactly a year will have passed since his arrest on charges of trying to rape a maid in a luxury New York hotel room. Those charges were dropped and in September the French politician and freshly resigned head of the International Monetary Fund returned to Paris a free man.

President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday rejected Dominique Strauss-Kahn's claims that he was the cause of the sex scandal that thwarted the ex-IMF chief's bid for the French presidency.

Allegations in the civil suit are much the same as the criminal charges initially lodged against Mr Strauss-Kahn: that Ms Diallo went to clean his luxury hotel suite and found herself being chased, then assaulted by its naked occupant.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was handed preliminary charges on Monday alleging he was involved in a hotel prostitution ring in France, a stunning blow on the home front for the former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief.

Scuffles broke out on Friday at Cambridge University as about 200 protesters demonstrated against a speech by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief accused of sexual assault.

Former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was questioned by French police for a second day on Wednesday over allegations that he took part in sex parties organized by a corrupt vice ring.

A lawyer for the hotel maid, who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her, has criticised the former IMF chief for not disclosing what happened during the encounter.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the IMF visited the headquarters of the body here to meet his successor and say goodbye to his ex-colleagues following the dismissal of sex assault charges against him.

She's on a magazine cover and national television, telling her emotional and explicit story of being sexually attacked by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and pressing for him to be tried.

A young French author has formally accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape, breaking her long public silence with a dramatic account of fending off an attacker who ripped at her clothes as they fought on his apartment floor.Tristane Banon's criminal complaint, which was filed Tuesday, was already sp...

A French novelist will file a criminal complaint on Tuesday accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape, her lawyer said, throwing fresh uncertainty into a fierce national debate about whether the former International Monetary Fund chief can return to his country's presidential race. The political world was hit by a new shock when the lawyer ...

The semen of former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn was found on the shirt of a hotel maid who alleges he tried to rape her, according to media reports.DNA taken from Strauss-Kahn matched genetic material found on the shirt of the 32-year-old chambermaid who has alleged the former IMF chief attacked...

Fallen IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will plead not guilty and be cleared of attempting to rape a hotel chambermaid, his main lawyer said on Sunday.The French politician, until recently considered a serious contender for the French presidency, is holed up in a Broadway apartment under armed guard while efforts were made to find him a more perman...

French voters who've shrugged at politicians' infidelities for decades are suddenly grappling with something far more serious: allegations that International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn engaged in a pattern of sexual assaults dating to at least 2002.Strauss-Kahn's defenders say his self-acknowledged reputation as a womanizer made him ...

Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who partly ran an investment company that is being sued for alleged fraud, will file a suit next week for defamation, his lawyer Jean Veil told AFP today.

On Monday, exactly a year will have passed since his arrest on charges of trying to rape a maid in a luxury New York hotel room. Those charges were dropped and in September the French politician and freshly resigned head of the International Monetary Fund returned to Paris a free man.

President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday rejected Dominique Strauss-Kahn's claims that he was the cause of the sex scandal that thwarted the ex-IMF chief's bid for the French presidency.

Allegations in the civil suit are much the same as the criminal charges initially lodged against Mr Strauss-Kahn: that Ms Diallo went to clean his luxury hotel suite and found herself being chased, then assaulted by its naked occupant.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was handed preliminary charges on Monday alleging he was involved in a hotel prostitution ring in France, a stunning blow on the home front for the former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief.

Scuffles broke out on Friday at Cambridge University as about 200 protesters demonstrated against a speech by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief accused of sexual assault.

Former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was questioned by French police for a second day on Wednesday over allegations that he took part in sex parties organized by a corrupt vice ring.

A lawyer for the hotel maid, who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her, has criticised the former IMF chief for not disclosing what happened during the encounter.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the IMF visited the headquarters of the body here to meet his successor and say goodbye to his ex-colleagues following the dismissal of sex assault charges against him.

She's on a magazine cover and national television, telling her emotional and explicit story of being sexually attacked by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and pressing for him to be tried.

A young French author has formally accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape, breaking her long public silence with a dramatic account of fending off an attacker who ripped at her clothes as they fought on his apartment floor.Tristane Banon's criminal complaint, which was filed Tuesday, was already sp...

A French novelist will file a criminal complaint on Tuesday accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape, her lawyer said, throwing fresh uncertainty into a fierce national debate about whether the former International Monetary Fund chief can return to his country's presidential race. The political world was hit by a new shock when the lawyer ...

The semen of former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn was found on the shirt of a hotel maid who alleges he tried to rape her, according to media reports.DNA taken from Strauss-Kahn matched genetic material found on the shirt of the 32-year-old chambermaid who has alleged the former IMF chief attacked...

Fallen IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will plead not guilty and be cleared of attempting to rape a hotel chambermaid, his main lawyer said on Sunday.The French politician, until recently considered a serious contender for the French presidency, is holed up in a Broadway apartment under armed guard while efforts were made to find him a more perman...

French voters who've shrugged at politicians' infidelities for decades are suddenly grappling with something far more serious: allegations that International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn engaged in a pattern of sexual assaults dating to at least 2002.Strauss-Kahn's defenders say his self-acknowledged reputation as a womanizer made him ...