Coup trial of &#39;mercenaries&#39; opens
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A South African arms dealer accused of a key role in a planned coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea today sought to clear 18 imprisoned co-defendants.
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ZAGREB * The war crimes trial of two former Croatian generals opened in Zagreb yesterday, marking an important test of the Balkan country's suitability for eventual membership of the European Union . via The Peninsula
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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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The landmark trial of a Rwandan Roman Catholic priest accused of supervising the massacre of 2,000 of his Tutsi parishioners during the country&#39;s 1994 genocide opened in his absence on Monday.
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A South African court has opened the corruption trial of a former financial advisor to Deputy President Jacob Zuma. Prosecutors have alleged that Schabir Shaik gave Mr.
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Sir Mark Thatcher has arrived at a magistratesâ court in South Africa for a hearing on charges that he allegedly helped bankroll a coup attempt that failed in Equatorial Guinea.
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The first trial has begun of one of the suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay US navy base on Cuba. A military tribunal will be hearing the cases against a total of four
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The first international war crimes  trial of former Kosovo Albanian rebels was due to begin on  Monday, with three men accused of murdering Serb civilians and  suspected collaborators during the 1998-99 conflict.
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Alleged mercenary leader Nick du Toit told a court here on Monday that he had recruited personnel and taken charge of logistics for an attempted coup bid in Equatorial Guinea.
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The trial of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi and the estranged husband of Britain's culture minister opened Tuesday with both men facing charges of false accounting, embezzlement and tax fraud in the purchase of TV rights for U.S. movies by Berlusconi's Mediaset empire.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa A British mercenary whose career reads like a thriller faces sentencing today in a plot to overthrow the president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
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The trial of 19 people accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea, in an affair that has led to the arrest of the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, resumed here after a weekend break.
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Mark Thatcher and his lawyers fought a call to answer questions on his alleged role in a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, saying any trial in the oil-rich west African state would amount to a &quot;military tribunal.&quot;
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The trial of eight people accused of involvement in the UK's biggest cash robbery begins at the Old Bailey.
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The trial begins of a UK aristocrat accused of murdering a black Kenyan man he suspected of poaching.
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The treason trial of Nigerian oil militant Mujahid Dokubo-Asari is due to start in the capital, Abuja.
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The first criminal trial involving former Enron Corp. executives opened yesterday with prosecutors charging that the defendants conspired with Wall Street bankers to carry out a sham transaction.