Lula ex-aide faces corruption trial
233446
Brazil's high court rules that a former top presidential aide should stand trial over a corruption scandal.
42689
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
393373
THE HAGUE, June 4 -- The trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, the highest-ranking African leader to face an international war crimes court, began Monday with the defendant refusing to leave his cell and prosecutors alleging that his fighters hacked off civilians' hands and legs, forced...
631772
The former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, goes on trial for war crimes after a conflict in which thousands died.
675977
Liberia's court charges a former army chief and an ex-parliamentary speaker with treason, officials say.
557433
By Tiago Pariz and Daniela Machado BRASILIA, Brazil  - A Brazilian congressionalprobe accused 91 people, including a former central bank chiefand an ex-mayor of Sao Paulo, on Tuesday of involvement insuspected laundering of money from drug trafficking, smugglingand other crimes.
433905
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Sept. 21 -- Vice President Annette Lu and two other senior figures from Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party were charged Friday with corruption and forgery, the latest in a series of scandals that have created turmoil in President Chen Shui-bian's independence-minded gove...
408203
East Timor&#039;s ex-prime minister has been ordered to appear in court after failing to turn up for questioning last month over allegations he authorised a hit squad to be armed to eliminate his opponents.
261230
Kosovo's former prime minister went on trial at the U.N. tribunal on Monday on war crimes charges related to his time as a guerrilla leader in the war against Serb forces between 1998-99.
192290
Vietnam's former deputy trade minister goes on trial, charged with accepting kickbacks from textile firms.
637792
Liberia's ex-President Charles Taylor appears at his war crimes trial in The Hague for the first time.
666686
Trial began on Monday for a   former deputy prosecutor accused of ordering the deaths of   Tutsis during Rwanda's 1994 genocide and providing weapons to   men at roadblocks set up to facilitate the slaughter.
386567
A couple of former government officials are scheduled Thursday to go on trial in Sofia on charges of illegally indemnifying property claimants in Bulgaria's restitution.
287844
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was expected to be extradited from Chile to Peru on Saturday to face trial on charges of corruption and the killing of 25 people by death squads during his rule.
235162
A Costa Rican appeals court judge ordered the former head of the Organization of American States jailed Friday while prosecutors prepare corruption charges against him for allegedly accepting kickbacks when he was the nation's president.
6311
A former Philippine communist leader charged with ordering murders is due in court in The Hague.
583370
The last army chief from Argentina's dictatorship and five other retired officers went on trial Tuesday for their alleged roles in the illegal detentions and torture of dissidents during military rule.