PARIS — The Paris prosecutor's office on Friday opened a preliminary investigation into accusations that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund who is accused of sexually assaulting a New York hotel housekeeper, tried to rape a French journalist during an interview in 2003, an official at the prosecutor's office said.
On Monday, the International Criminal Court in The Hague opened a preliminary investigation into accusations that the North committed war crimes in the Nov. 23 attack and in a March torpedo strike on a South Korean ship, the Cheonan, which killed 46 sailors, the court's prosecutor said in a statement.
For many posters, playing the "consistency" card is merely preliminary to the accusation they really want to make, the accusation that the boycotters are anti-Semites.
After investigating the other complaint, the commission has "come to the preliminary conclusion that the accusations made against Intel are unfounded," she said.
The Pentagon's inspector general today opened a preliminary inquiry into an accusation against the Army's highest-ranking woman, Lt. Gen. Claudia J. Kennedy, who has accused another Army general of sexual misconduct, senior defense officials said.
But law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the F.B.I. was likely to open a preliminary investigation into the new accusations to determine whether a full investigation was warranted.
He denied the accusation at a preliminary hearing at the ICC last September.
Since leaving office he has been tangled in judicial investigations and accusations, and he faces preliminary charges in a party-financing investigation linked to Liliane Bettencourt, a billionaire heiress.
The French defence ministry said it was informed in July 2014 of the accusations, and French prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation.
The accusations were made after he received preliminary approval from one of the church's two decision-making bodies on Sunday evening.
