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Paris (CNN)Marie-Alice Dibon and Luciano Meridda's relationship began with poetry. The pair met during a taxi ride through Paris in 2004. Dibon, then 38 and a cosmetics and pharmaceutical specialist who split her time between Silicon Valley and the French capital, had grown curious about her driver's reading material. She wanted to know about the poetry book that lay by his side. Meridda, then 51, told her of his enthusiasm for literature and Dibon was captivated. "He was always reading, trying to get more cultured, more savvy. And she kind of respected and admired that, I guess," Dibon's sister, Helene de Ponsay, told CNN. Things moved quickly. Within a few weeks of meeting, they moved into an apartment in Courbevoie, just outside Paris. Read More At the start of their relationship, her sister said, the couple seemed happy. But five years in, Meridda revealed a darker side, and became increasingly possessive and manipulative. De Ponsay remembers one visit with her sister in … [Read more...] about 137 women have been killed by their partners in France this year. Critics blame a ‘deeply sexist society’

Photo: PRWeb Photo: PRWeb Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Photo: PRWeb SportsTechX and SIGNA Sports United Team Up to Release Global SportsTech VC Report 1  /  1 Back to Gallery The #1 source for data & insights about SportsTech startups and the surrounding ecosystem partnered with the #1 sports online platform in Europe to provide a data-driven deep dive on global Venture Capital activities in SportsTech. BERLIN (PRWEB) November 21, 2019 SportsTechX announced the release of a new publication: The Global SportsTech VC Report. Powered by SIGNA Sports United, the data-driven report focuses on the SportsTech investment space globally and offers insights on funding and investor activities in the industry. The report is available now and, in … [Read more...] about SportsTechX and SIGNA Sports United Team Up to Release Global SportsTech VC Report

Ukraine’s new top prosecutor announced he will open a review into the criminal proceedings dismissed against Burisma Holdings, an oil and gas conglomerate with ties to Joe Biden’s youngest son, Hunter. Ruslan Ryaboshapka, Ukraine’s newly appointed prosecutor general, announced at a press conference on Friday that his office will review 15 prior cases that were closed under suspicious circumstances by his predecessor.“We are now reviewing all the cases which were closed, fragmented or investigated earlier in order to make a decision on cases where illegal procedural decisions were taken,” Ryaboshapka said. The news comes only days after Ukraine announced it was opening a public corruption investigation into Yuriy Lutsenko, the country’s most recent prosecutor general. Lutsenko, who served a prison sentence for embezzlement and corruption in the mid-2000s, was appointed to the post in 2016 after Joe Biden demanded the ouster of his predecessor. The … [Read more...] about Ukraine’s Top Prosecutor Reviewing Biden-Linked Burisma Case