Bangladesh starts trial of ex-PM for extortion
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A Bangladesh court started prosecution on Wednesday against detained former prime minister Sheikh Hasina for alleged extortion.
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A new trial on corruption charges against former Premier Silvio Berlusconi opened Tuesday, just as the opposition leader is seeking to capitalize on weaknesses in the governing coalition to get back into power.
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A former vice minister of trade went on trial on Tuesday on charges of accepting thousands of dollars in bribes involving garment and textiles exports to the United States.
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A Bangladesh court remanded two politicians and a top businessman in police custody for interrogation, officials said on Wednesday, the latest in a long list of prominent officials to be held in a corruption crackdown.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor goes on trial before a U.N.-backed court at The Hague on Monday charged with instigating murder, rape and mutilation during Sierra Leone's civil war.
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An Indonesian Muslim cleric, accused of heading the al-Qaida-linked terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, went on trial Thursday charged in the 2002 Bali bombings and last year&#39;s attack on the JW Marriott Hotel.
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A prosecutor on Monday launched an investigation against former prime minister Ivan Kostov on suspicion he used money from state firms to fund his party, the Info Radio reported.
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The U.N. war crimes tribunal on Wednesday started the trial of a Bosnian Muslim commander accused of overseeing the destruction of 15 Serb villages and the torture of prisoners in Eastern Bosnia.
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Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed fell sick in court during a hearing on extortion charges, a state prosecutor said.
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A former Bangladeshi minister is arrested a day after three politicians were held in an anti-corruption drive.
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Abu Bakar Ba'asyir goes on trial in connection with the 2002 Bali bombings and other attacks.
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A senior civil servant goes on trial accused of raping a woman in a government office.
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Another former minister is detained in Bangladesh as the government says it is stepping up an anti-corruption drive.
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Asia&#39;s top terror suspect, Hambali, went on trial yesterday along with eight other alleged Muslim militants on charges of attempted murder in an alleged plot to bomb targets in Cambodia.
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A Bangladesh court remanded a senior politician, a former junior minister and a top businessman in police custody for interrogation, officials said on Wednesday, the latest in a long list of prominent officials to be held in a corruption crackdown.
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Security forces arrested former  Bangladesh prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia for corruption on  Monday, a signal of the interim government&#39;s determination to  root out graft under the emergency rule imposed eight months  ago.
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Kosovo's former prime minister has "blood on his hands", the U.N. chief prosecutor said on Monday at the start of a war crimes trial on charges stemming from the war against Serb forces in 1998-99.