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Paris : Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been taken into police custody for questioning over allegations that he received funding from the regime of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for the 2007 presidential election campaign. Sarkozy, 63, was summoned to a police station in Nanterre and was being questioned in relation to "irregularities" over the financing of his 2007 campaign that swept him to power for a single five-year term, Le Monde daily reported citing court sources. An inquiry was opened in April 2013 into allegations that Sarkozy's campaign had...