World News: Zimbabwe jails UK &#39;coup plotter&#39;
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The British leader of a group of 67 alleged mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea has been sentenced to seven years in jail.
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A Zimbabwe court jailed British former  special services officer Simon Mann for seven years on Friday  in a case prosecutors had linked to a foiled coup plot in  oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
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Sir Mark Thatcher was arrested at his South African home yesterday on suspicion of helping to pay for a coup attempt in the oil-rich state of Equatorial Guinea.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe  - Zimbabwe's High Court Friday  acquitted opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on charges of  plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, saying the  state had failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug 29  - The arrest of Mark Thatcher in South Africa over a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea is shining a spotlight on powerful members of the British elite who may have colluded to take over the oil-rich African country.
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Zimbabwe arrested a senior South African intelligence agent last month and has since charged five prominent Zimbabweans with espionage, security sources said Thursday.
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A judge in Zimbabwe stunned his nation Friday by acquitting an opposition political leader of charges he conspired to murder and replace the president.
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LONDON, Feb. 9 -- British police on Friday charged five men arrested in Birmingham last week with terrorism-related offenses, officially alleging for the first time that the men were plotting to kidnap and kill a British soldier.
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A Zimbabwean court found Briton Simon Mann guilty of attempting to illegally buy arms for an alleged coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea but absolved 66 other suspected mercenaries.
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London - Britain knew about an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea at least five weeks before a team of mercenaries was nabbed in Zimbabwe as they prepared to carry it out, the Observer newspaper reported on Sunday.
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British police Thursday arrested radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri under the Terrorism Act at a prison in southeast London where the cleric was already jailed under a US extradition warrant.
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British police Thursday arrested radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri under the Terrorism Actat a prison in southeast London where the cleric was already jailed under a US extradition warrant.
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Simon Mann, the British soldier-of-fortune accused of masterminding a botched coup last March against Equatorial Guinea&#39;s ruler, was sentenced to seven years in prison
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A ZIMBABWE court yesterday convicted Briton Simon Mann, a former SAS and Scots Guards officer, of attempting to buy weapons for an attempted coup in the oil-rich West African state of Equatorial Guinea.
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Description: Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher&#39;s son -- Mark Thatcher -- has been given a conditional release by a court hearing charges that he helped plot a coup in Africa.
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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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Briton Simon Mann, the alleged mastermind behind a plot to stage a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, was sentenced to seven years in jail by a Zimbabwe court on weapons charges.