Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alain Orsoni, a former Corsican nationalist leader turned businessman and former head of the AC Ajaccio football club (as seen ...

Alain Orsoni, a former Corsican separatist leader and ex-president of AC Ajaccio football club, was killed by a sniper Monday as mourners gathered at his mother's funeral in the village of Vero.

Local elected leaders Gilles Simeoni and Jean-Guy Talamoni stayed away from a working lunch with the 40-year-old president, on the second and final day of his trip to the Mediterranean island of ...

PARIS(AP) — Former Corsican nationalist leader Alain Orsoni, who also served as the president of soccer club AC Ajaccio, was shot dead in Corsica on Monday during his mother’s funeral, French media ...