France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy maintained his innocence on Tuesday, telling an appeal hearing in Paris that not a single cent from Libya helped fund his 2007 presidential campaign. “I owe the truth to French people,” Sarkozy told a three-judges panel during a hearing in the case that lead him to spend 20 days in prison before being granted release pending appeal. Sarkozy, 71, is challenging his conviction after being found guilty in September of “criminal conspiracy.”

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 3 (Reuters) - A federal labor judge in Brazil ordered the government to add a poultry unit of meatpacker JBS to a so-called "dirty list" of employers responsible ​for subjecting workers to slavery-like conditions, according to a Tuesday court ruling seen by Reuters. The case ‌stems from a federal raid last year that found 10 people working in slavery-like conditions for a contractor hired to load and unload cargo ‌for poultry unit JBS Aves, in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul stat

The hospital told ABC News the incident is being investigated.