Peruvian leader's sister charged
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A sister of Peru's president is among 26 charged with forging signatures ahead of the 2000 election.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - A Brazilian congressional  probe accused 91 people, including a former central bank chief  and an ex-mayor of Sao Paulo, on Tuesday of involvement in  suspected laundering of money from drug trafficking, smuggling  and other crimes.
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Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, was charged with involvement in a homicide and nine kidnappings in the 1970s that were part of a plot by Latin American military regimes to kill opponents.
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Former President Alberto Fujimori returned to Peru on Saturday to face charges of corruption and sanctioning death-squad killings, a grim homecoming for the strongman who fled the country seven years ago as his government collapsed in scandal.
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Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, was indicted on charges that he took part in a plot by Latin American military regimes to kill opponents in the 1970s.
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LIMA - Former president Alberto Fujimori returned to Peru yesterday to face charges of corruption and sanctioning death-squad killings, a grim homecoming for the strongman who fled the country seven years ago as his government collapsed in scandal.
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A former Chechen politician is charged as an accomplice in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
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Former President Alberto Fujimori arrived in Peru on Saturday for the first time since his 10 year rule ended in disgrace in 2000 to face charges of abusing human rights and stealing public money in the Andean country.
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A Thai immigrant convicted of incest led investigators to the body of a 12-year-old girl who had been missing since the Fourth of July, and is expected to be charged in her death, authorities said Friday.
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Left-wing activist and Israeli citizen Tali Fahima was charged with a multi-count indictment on Sunday in the Tel Aviv District Court.
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LIMA, Peru  - American Lori Berenson, whose  20-year sentence on terrorism was upheld by the region's top  rights court, was the victim of a political campaign to turn  the court against her, her lawyer said on Friday.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - A Chilean judge on Monday  formally charged former dictator Agusto Pinochet with homicide  and kidnapping in one of many pending cases related to human  rights abuses committed during his 17-year rule.
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MIAMI, Fla. -- Miami-Dade County Police announced new charges Wednesday for two women in connection with a young girl who has been missing for more than three years.
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Ex-US congressman Mark Deli Siljander is charged over the funding of an al-Qaeda supporter in Afghanistan.
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A judge has dropped criminal charges against the daughter of Peru's fugitive ex-President Alberto Fujimori that carried a sentence of five years in prison.
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Peru's Cabinet chief testified Friday at the trial of former President Alberto Fujimori that security forces attempted to assassinate two-time President Alan Garcia in 1992, when Fujimori was running the country and Garcia was out of office.
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CALLAO NAVAL BASE, Peru  - Peru began a retrial on  Friday of Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman, the guerrilla  who led a brutal "popular war" to impose communism on the  Andean nation from 1980 until his capture in 1992.