Former Paraguay president jailed
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Former Paraguay President Luis Gonzalez Macchi is jailed for eight years for fraud and embezzlement.
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Panama wants former military leader Manuel Noriega returned to serve jail time for murder when he is released from a U.S. prison in September, President Martin Torrijos said on Thursday, denying a secret deal to have Noriega extradited to France.
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A three-judge panel Wednesday found a former interior minister guilty of fueling violence in East Timor a year ago that ultimately led to the downfall of the government and sentenced him to 7 1/2 years in prison.
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The state president of Sicily is found guilty of assisting the Mafia and sentenced to five years in prison.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A once-powerful state senator at the center of a corruption scandal was sentenced Wednesday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for taking payoffs from the health care industry.
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A former state senator who was released after serving about three months of a one-year sentence in a bribery scheme was ordered back to jail Friday by a city commission.
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A military court on Thursday ordered a former army general convicted of leading a failed coup attempt released from prison, and his aides said he intends to compete in next year's presidential election.
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A top opposition politician in ex-Soviet  Belarus was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday in  what he denounced as an attempt to block his drive to make the  ex-Soviet state more democratic.
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A former Uruguayan dictator was arrested on Monday and charged with secretly transferring political prisoners who later disappeared and are presumed dead, a prosecutor said.
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Accused of corruption, a former Philippine president (and action movie superstar) is sentenced to life imprisonment -- in his country estate.
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A Kenyan judge has imprisoned a businessman and a former bank executive for two years for fraud, in the first convictions under President Mwai Kibaki&#39;s anti-corruption drive.
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A judge has placed former Chilean ruler, Augusto Pinochet, under house arrest in connection with charges of human rights abuses during his 17-year rule.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - An Argentine court on  Wednesday charged former President Fernando de la Rua with  misusing public funds, three years after a public outcry forced  him to leave office early.
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The former boss of Indonesia's national airline is jailed for a year for his part in a prominent murder case.
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A former Uruguayan colonel, wanted in his own country and Argentina for alleged human rights abuses, is arrested in Brazil.
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The ex-president of Peru is facing multiple-court proceedings. Already found guilty of abuse of power, he faces murder charges that could see him in prison for 30 years
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Former Yugoslav general Pavle Strugar is given an eight-year jail term for his role in the 1991 siege of Dubrovnik.