Court to rule on Zambia satirist
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Zambia's Supreme Court is to decide if a British writer can be deported for allegedly insulting the president.
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A court will hear a case against the former military leader of Ivory Coast's northern rebels and 12 others suspected in connection with an alleged 2003 plot against President Laurent Gbagbo's government, judicial officials said Thursday.
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Former South African Deputy   President Jacob Zuma is due in court this week to face   corruption charges, boosted by vocal supporters who have kept   alive his hope of political resurrection.
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Editors of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo have gone to court for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that outraged Muslims worldwide.
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The Supreme Court said on Friday it would decide whether a high school principal violated a student's free-speech rights by suspending him for unfurling a banner that read "Bong Hits 4 Jesus."
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A court in Zimbabwe is expected to pass sentence on some 70 alleged mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in the West African state of Equatorial Guinea.
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A Chilean appeals court is set to rule on whether former leader Augusto Pinochet is fit to stand trial.
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A verdict is expected in the 12-year genocide trial of Ethiopia's former Marxist ruler, Mengistu Haile Mariam.
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Sir Mark Thatcher will go before a South African court on Thursday on charges that he helped finance a foiled coup attempt.
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Congolese singer Papa Wemba is to appear before a French court on people smuggling charges.
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British writer Roy Clark says he will continue criticising Zambia's leaders, after winning a court case against deportation.
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Judge to hear arguments in lawsuit aimed at closing workplace caucuses in the Las Vegas casino district
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Zambia's presidential race tightened on Saturday as President Levy Mwanawasa scored big wins in rural areas, but his populist rival Michael Sata maintained his lead and warned of "ghastly consequences" if poll fraud was detected.
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An Equatorial Guinea court is due to give its verdict on Friday on 14 suspected foreign mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in the tiny country, sub-Saharan Africa&#39;s third biggest oil producer.
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A Libyan court will rule in the retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and a doctor accused of infecting children with HIV.
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A South African court ruling on Thursday could allow the revival of corruption charges against former Deputy President Jacob Zuma, widely considered a candidate to lead the ruling African National Congress.
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Mark Thatcher must submit to  questioning in a South African court this week over charges he  was involved in a foiled coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial  Guinea, the Cape High Court ruled on Wednesday.