An influential French journalist and editor lived a double life as a “highly rated” KGB spy for 35 years, according to L’Express magazine, his former employer.
Robert Badinter, who has died aged 95, was the Minister of Justice who in 1981 secured the abolition of France’s death penalty – having campaigned for the reform since witnessing a criminal he had defended being guillotined nine years before.
NEW YORK Refuting claims that his references to recent conversations with deceased politicians were made by mistake, President Joe Biden confirmed Thursday that he speaks to dead European leaders all the time as they beckon him toward the light. “That was not a gaffe I distinctly remember Helmut Kohl telling me the…