Drummond's Colombia rights trial begins in Alabama
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - U.S. coal company Drummond went on trial on Monday on charges it paid right-wing paramilitary gunmen to kill union leaders at a mine it operates in a war-torn corner of northern Colombia.
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A Pennsylvania town's efforts to crack down on illegal immigration will be challenged by civil rights campaigners in a landmark federal trial beginning on Monday that could signal whether such local laws across the country can stand up to legal challenge.
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The landmark trial of a foreign national accused of a crime that occurred outside Britain opened Friday against an Afghan warlord accused of conspiring to kidnap and torture in his homeland.
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Nearly 3 1/2 years after his wife was gunned down as she sat alone in a car on a dark street, opening statements in the much-delayed murder trial of Emmy-winning actor Robert Blake got underway Monday.
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A Yemeni man facing trial on war crimes charges has appeared in a US military court confessing to be a member of al-Qaida and demanding to represent himself before what will be the first military commissions since WWII.
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The conviction of an American citizen on charges of rape and murder, and his subsequent release, has put Nicaraguaâs justice system on trial.
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The trial begins of a UK aristocrat accused of murdering a black Kenyan man he suspected of poaching.
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One of Saddam Hussein&#39;s top associates, Ali Hassan al-Majid -- better known as &quot;Chemical Ali&quot; -- will be the first member of the former Iraqi regime to stand trial, beginning sometime before the end of the month, an Iraqi Defense
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One of the bloodiest chapters in Colombia&#039;s recent history is being revisited in a Bogota courtroom: A former justice minister is on trial for allegedly masterminding the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan.
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Businessman Mark Thatcher is to be tried in his absence by a court in Equatorial Guinea for his alleged role in a bid to oust President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, a defense lawyer told reporters.
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The treason trial of Nigerian oil militant Mujahid Dokubu-Asari is due to start in the capital, Abuja.
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A father's emotional testimony over the loss of his son aboard the USS Cole opened a civil trial Tuesday in which relatives of the 17 victims of the terrorist attack are trying to prove it couldn't have happened without Sudan's support.
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JACKSON, Mississippi  - A former Ku Klux Klansman went on trial on Monday for kidnapping two black men murdered in Mississippi in 1964 in a case that highlights white supremacist violence during the civil rights era.
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Jury selection began today in Fort Hood, Tex., in the military trial of the so-called ringleader of the prison scandal in Iraq.
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An Indonesian Muslim cleric goes on  trial on Thursday charged with leading a militant network seen  as the regional arm of al Qaeda in a case that will test the  new president's pledge to fight terrorism.
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The first trial of a suspect implicated in the March 11 train bombings in Madrid opens on Tuesday with a 16-year-old in the dock facing up to eight years in detention for allegedly handling the explosives used in the attack which killed 191 people.
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: After years of speculation and delay, one of the most extraordinary trials in legal history will finally begin this week.