S.Africa judge throws out charges against Zuma
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PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa  - A South African   judge on Wednesday threw out corruption charges against former   Deputy President Jacob Zuma, boosting the popular politician's   bid to succeed President Thabo Mbeki.
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JOHANNESBURG -- South African authorities yesterday abruptly dropped criminal charges against a Pretoria man charged last week with possessing components for the construction of nuclear weapons. The move was part of a deal in which Johan Andries Muller Meyer, 53, will cooperate with prosecutors to pursue other targets of the investigation, said a source familiar with the probe. Police arrested ...
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South Africa's ruling ANC leader Jacob Zuma has denied allegations of corruption and vowed to fight charges laid against him in court, local media reported on Friday.
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A Colorado judge on Wednesday dismissed a rape charge against basketball star Kobe Bryant after the young woman who made the accusations told prosecutors she could not go on with the case.
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Theft and corruption charges against the former president of this southern African nation have been dropped after the current president suspended the chief investigator in the case, Malawi's top prosecutor said Monday.
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Charges are dropped in South Africa against eight men accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea.
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Zimbabwe Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa is cleared of trying to pervert the course of justice.
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South Africa's chief prosecutor has denied accusations that President Thabo Mbeki is behind new corruption charges laid against ruling ANC leader Jacob Zuma, local media reported on Sunday.
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Citing "willful and deliberate  misconduct" by prosecutors, a federal judge on Thursday  dismissed the charges against a Chinese-American informant  accused of taking classified papers from her FBI agent lover.
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South African prosecutors are  drawing up fresh charges against former Deputy President Jacob  Zuma after his graft trial was thrown out of court last week,  the Sunday Times reported.
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The leader of Zimbabwe&#39;s largest opposition party was acquitted of treason charges Friday by a High Court in Harare. The judge said there was not enough credible evidence to convict the politician, Morgan Tsvangirai.
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A federal judge dismissed charges Wednesday against two jail guards accused of beating an inmate, saying prosecutors had not proven their case.
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A judge Tuesday threw out a civil lawsuit filed against William Kennedy Smith by a former personal assistant who alleged he sexually assaulted her.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa, Dec. 20 -- The top prosecutor in South Africa signaled Thursday that criminal charges would soon be filed against the ruling party's newly elected leader, Jacob Zuma, complicating a comeback that has taken Zuma from political outcast to presidential favorite.
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A judge dismissed corruption charges against Jacob Zuma on Wednesday after the prosecution said it was not ready to proceed against a powerful, populist politician who could be South Africa's next president.
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South African prosecutors are   drawing up fresh charges against former Deputy President Jacob   Zuma after his graft trial was thrown out of court last week,   the Sunday Times reported.
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A judge cleared the way for the release of documents and other evidence in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case on Wednesday.