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France

Case is crucial to Sarkozy's future

Nicolas Sarkozy's lawyers are asking France's highest court to throw out evidence obtained through wiretaps of phone conversations between the former French president and his main lawyer. It is one of several legal cases in which Sarkozy's name has appeared, but the most potentially damaging to his political future. He was expected to seek the conservative nomination to run for president again next year.