French mercenary absent at appeal
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A French mercenary fails to attend a trial over his suspended sentence for a coup attempt in the Comoros.
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A Paris appeals court on Friday rejected a request by former Vivendi Universal chief Jean-Marie Messier to lower his bail in a case of suspected financial wrongdoing.
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A senior judge questions why a leading loyalist was not arrested after breaching a bail condition.
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A man who claims to be the late Princess Margaret's illegitimate son fails in his court bid to access her will and that of the Queen Mother.
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A diagnosis of the illness of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who was flown to France for treatment yesterday will not be available for several days.
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A French court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for former leftist Italian guerrilla Cesare Battisti after he failed to report to police for regular checks.
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Business & money: Â· Doubt cast on SocGen claim of single perpetratorÂ· Employee of financial services firm is held
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Yung Joc failed to show up at his arraignment Wednesday on a felony charge of carrying a concealed weapon and was considered a fugitive, a prosecutor said.
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A Pakistani court on Thursday again adjourned an appeal hearing for four Islamic militants convicted of the abduction and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl because a key defense lawyer failed to show up.
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The Marine charged with desertion after he claimed to have been kidnapped last year in Iraq was again declared a deserter Wednesday after he failed to return from a holiday leave.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The B.C. Court of Appeal has rejected a Canadian's demand for a judicial review of his extradition to California to face armed-robbery charges.
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The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider another issue related to the rights of terrorism suspects &#151; rejecting without comment an appeal by Ali Saleh Kahlab al-Marri, one of three people who have been held in America as enemy combatants without traditional legal rights.
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Record-breaking adventurer took off in Nevada yesterday morning but did not return as scheduled.
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A Pakistani court on Thursday again adjourned an appeal hearing for four Islamic militants convicted of the abduction and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl because a key defence lawyer failed to show up.
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A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Louisiana's attorney general can't sue the Army Corps of Engineers on behalf of Hurricane Katrina victims who don't have lawyers.
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A French engineering student who was  expelled from Syria on suspicion of trying to join Islamists  fighting U.S. forces in Iraq has been placed under formal  French judicial investigation, a judicial source said on  Friday.
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ATHENS, Greece  -- The French Olympic team is to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to try to win back its three-day event Olympic gold medal in Athens.