Arms charges dropped in a deal for data
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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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The EU antitrust investigation into Apple has ended after the company agreed to reduce the price of music downloads.
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives no longer routinely checks the addresses of some buyers at gun shows after being accused of slowing sales at a show in Richmond in 2005, the Justice Department reported yesterday.
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Charges against the man leading an investigation into alleged corruption by South Africa's police chief Jackie Selebi have been dropped, SAPA news agency reported on Monday.
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Two call girls have dropped assault charges against the nephew of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said Monday.
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.  - The U.S. military  dropped spy charges on Wednesday against a Syrian-American  airman who worked as a translator at the detention center at  Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the latest in a series of embarrassing  legal setbacks for the government.
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The U.S. Army has dropped all  charges against a colonel who served as an intelligence officer  at the Guantanamo prison and had been accused of trying to take  classified material from the base, officials said on Thursday.
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Prosecutors dropped terrorism charges Tuesday against two Michigan men who were arrested after buying large numbers of cell phones, saying they couldn't prove a terrorism link.
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South Africa has dropped charges against a man suspected of selling nuclear equipment in exchange for him to tell all, the Washington Times reports.
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An Iraqi judge confirms criminal charges against prominent politician Ahmed Chalabi have been dropped.
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South African police have dropped charges against a businessman accused of involvement in an international nuclear smuggling network.
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The deal sought to strike a balance between the Bush administrationÂs campaign against terrorism with European privacy protections.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The military yesterday dropped an espionage charge against a Muslim interpreter accused of spying at the camp for terrorism detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Prosecutors agreed to drop an illegal campaign contribution charge against Sears, Roebuck and Co. in exchange for its cooperation in an investigation of contributions to a political action committee associated with House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
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U.S. Treasury officials will be able to keep data on financial transactions collected in anti-terror investigations for only five years under a deal with the EU to safeguard privacy rights, EU officials said Thursday.
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The Justice Department has dropped all criminal charges against a Chinese national accused of selling technology made by his Silicon Valley employer to a Chinese cruise missile laboratory, court records show.
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The decision by the European Commission, which initially opposed the $7.7 billion deal, comes a few weeks after the U.S. Department of Justice dropped its challenge to the combination of the business software makers.