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A Paris court convicts French oil company Total of maritime pollution over the 1999 sinking of the tanker Erika.
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France has reported a big increase in its trade deficit to a record of 29.2 billion euros (37 billion dollars), but Trade Minister Christine Lagarde blamed high oil prices.
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A French court convicted dozens of people on Friday in a baby-trafficking case involving the sale of nearly two dozen Bulgarian infants over two years.
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PHILADELPHIA A big gash has been found on the tanker that caused the Delaware River&#39;s worst oil spill in nearly a decade. Divers have found a six-foot cut on the ship, plus holes in two tanks.
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France begins a trial over the 1999 Erika oil spill - one of the country's worst environmental disasters.
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Media tycoon Conrad Black, known for his lavish parties and ostentatious personality, was found guilty Friday of fraud and obstruction of justice after being accused of raiding his company&#39;s coffers.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 6  â The largest verdict in Alabama history went before the Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday with Exxon Mobil arguing that the $3.6 billion judgment is unjustified because the company committed no fraud.
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The US Department of Justice fines oil giant BP some $373m (Â£182m), for fraud and environmental violations.
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The widow of the Earl of Shaftesbury has been found guilty of arranging his murder by a French court.
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An Iraqi-American pleads guilty to four charges connected to the UN oil-for-food scandal.
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French oil giant Total posts a record 12.58bn-euro net profit in 2006, but fourth-quarter earnings slip as oil prices fall.
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A US lorry driver is found guilty over a mass people smuggling attempt in which 19 immigrants died.
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A U.S. jury on Monday found a former  Credit Suisse Group  investment banker guilty of  insider trading and conspiracy.
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Vivendi Universal and its former chief executive Jean-Marie Messier have each been fined 1m euros ($1.3m; Â£690,000) by French regulators.
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Garnier and Adecco are found guilty of carrying out a racist recruitment campaign in France in 2000.
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A tanker spilled about 114,000 litres of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, creating a 32-kilometre-long slick that killed dozens of birds and threatened other wildlife, US officials said
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Five former Guantanamo Bay inmates were  found guilty on Wednesday of terrorism-related charges by a  French court and sentenced to one year in prison.