Zimbabwe court drops paper case
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Charges against four directors of Zimbabwe's banned Daily News newspaper are dropped by a court, citing insufficient evidence.
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South African authorities on Wednesday abruptly dropped criminal charges against a Pretoria man charged last week with possessing components for the construction of nuclear weapons.
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An Italian court dropped a key corruption charge against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday, invoking a statute of limitations that meant time had run out to press a conviction.
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Harare, Zimbabwe, 10/15 - Zimbabwe`s main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai was Friday acquitted by the high court of charges that he plotted to assassinate President Robert Mugabe.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe  - A court in Zimbabwe Friday  acquitted most of 70 suspected mercenaries charged with weapons  offenses in a suspected plot to topple the government of  Equatorial Guinea, but found their leader, Simon Mann, guilty.
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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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Zimbabwe's ruling party congress came to an end after electing its first woman vice president while the country's controversial information minister appeared to be losing favour.
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A Chilean court drops corruption charges against family and associates of late military ruler Gen Pinochet.
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Israel's High Court said on Thursday it was upholding a decision by the country's attorney-general to drop a bribery case against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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Eleven Zimbabwean opposition supporters who had been detained for two months for an alleged &quot;terrorism&quot; plot have been released after a court ordered the charges to be dropped, a party spokesman said Friday.
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The supreme court ruled Monday that charges of vote fraud in the presidential elections were without foundation, ending a major legal challenge to Congo's first multiparty balloting since independence from Belgium in 1960.
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A judge throws out  the corruption case of former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
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South Africa's main AIDS treatment lobby group has dropped a court case against the government demanding it reveal target dates for the rollout of life-prolonging drugs, activists and officials said Sunday.
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The high court yesterday dismissed an attempt to prevent the Guardian from reporting allegations of serious abuse of Iraqis by British soldiers and described the way the Ministry of Defence handled the case as 'barmy'
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A U.S. district court has dismissed a  long running anti-trust case against VNU's market research  company ACNielsen, brought by its rival Information Resources  Inc., the Dutch publisher said on Friday.
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A white Zimbabwean farmer has been ordered to vacate his farm after the Supreme Court dismissed his application to stop the government from acquiring it, a state daily reported Saturday.
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Zimbabwe dismissed as &quot;meaningless&quot; Friday a decision by Edinburgh University this week to strip President Robert Mugabe of an honorary degree.