Two jailed for DRC atrocities, Canadian company cleared
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A military court jailed two Congolese army officers for life Thursday for the 2004 massacre of civilians in a verdict which cleared three Canadian mining company employees of complicity.
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THE VERDICT: A judge cleared opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of treason charges rooted in an alleged plot to assassinate Zimbabwe's longtime president, Robert Mugabe.
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The U.N.'s International Criminal  Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Wednesday acquitted former  Rwandan education minister Andre Rwamakuba of murder and  incitement charges related to the country's 1994 genocide.
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A French court on Monday convicted two construction companies of manslaughter for their roles in a deadly shipyard accident on the world's largest ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2, before it was launched.
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Child killer Marc Dutroux and his ex-wife lose an appeal against their sentences for crimes which horrified Belgium.
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NAIROBI, Dec. 13 -- A Catholic priest was convicted Wednesday of taking part in Rwanda's 1994 genocide by ordering militiamen to set fire to a church and then bulldoze it while 2,000 people seeking safety were huddled inside.
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Two prosecutors were convicted of corruption and sentenced Monday to four-year prison terms.
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Thirteen Congolese army soldiers and four former militia fighters have been sentenced to life imprisonment in separate war crimes convictions by local military authorities, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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A Canadian court handed down a rare conviction to a white supremacist for posting hate material on the Internet, police here said Tuesday.
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A U.N. court trying leaders of Rwanda's 1994 genocide jailed a former Catholic priest for 15 years on Wednesday for ordering bulldozers to level a church, sparking the death of 2,000 people hiding inside.
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The second round of DR Congo's landmark elections is thrown into confusion after a Supreme Court ruling.
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Media tycoon Conrad Black is convicted on charges of fraud and obstructing justice but is cleared of racketeering.
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TORONTO -- Gary Payton, Sam Cassell and Jason Caffey were cleared of assaulting a male exotic dancer and his stripper fiance during a confrontation outside a downtown Toronto strip club in 2003.
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A French court convicted Congolese world music star Papa Wemba Tuesday of smuggling people into France but the King of Rhumba Rock walked free because he has already served four months in jail.
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Two Canadian men were each sentenced Friday to three consecutive life prison terms for the bludgeoning deaths of one of the men's parents and sister 10 years ago.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, June 20 -- Three former military leaders in Sierra Leone were found guilty of war crimes Wednesday by a U.N.-backed court, the first verdicts stemming from the country's 10-year civil war.
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A federal judge in New York dismissed a human rights suit yesterday against 35 major corporations that did business in South Africa under apartheid, dealing a blow to rights lawyers who have