Australian government cleared by Iraq bribes probe
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The Australian government has been cleared of illegal activity by a report into the payment of huge bribes to the Iraqi regime of former dictator Saddam Hussein, parliament has been told.
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Citigroup  was cleared of insider trading charges on Thursday by an Australian court, which ruled the U.S. bank's "Chinese Walls" were not breached when it traded shares in a company it knew was a takeover target.
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MILAN, Italy -- A court cleared Premier Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges in his long-running trial today, sparing Italy the embarrassment of having its leader convicted of bribing judges.
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An Italian court quashed corruption charges against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi after a four-year trial for bribing judges.
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: The Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has been acquitted of attempting to bribe a judge after a marathon court case that&#39;s divided the nation.
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The Australian government has conceded allegations by former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mamdouh Habib that he was tortured in Egypt may be true.
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Milan judges acquitted Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of corruption after reducing the statute of limitations for the charge, ending a decade of legal battles that threatened his leadership.
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Italy's supreme court on Friday acquitted former premier Silvio Berlusconi on corruption charges related to the sale of food group SME, media reports said.
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Italy&#39;s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was last night cleared of the most serious corruption charge hanging over him when a court in Milan ruled that a key accusation - that of bribing a judge with almost $500,000 (Â£260,000) - was &quot;out of time&quot;.
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CANBERRA: Australian Prime Minister John Howard refused today to apologise for joining the US-led invasion of Iraq despite a new US report that said Baghdad had no weapons of mass destruction at the time of the attack.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard has dismissed a leaked US intelligence report that found the US-led Iraq war increased the global threat of terrorism, rather than diminishing it.
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The only Indonesian jailed for abuses during East Timor's violence-marred independence vote has been cleared on appeal in a move that has angered rights groups and embarrassed the Jakarta government.
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Prime Minister John Howard's government said Wednesday it had tracked down all 225 of its citizens known to be in Iraq, raising hopes that a claim by militants who said they'd kidnapped two Australians was untrue.
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Milan judges acquitted Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of corruption after reducing the statute of limitations, ending a decade of legal battles that threatened his leadership.
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MILAN, Italy  - A court cleared Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges in his long-running trial Friday, sparing Italy the embarrassment of having its leader convicted of bribing judges.
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An inquiry cleared Australia's government of wrongdoing in an Iraqi oil-for-food scandal Monday, but recommended top officials of the monopoly wheat exporter face charges for paying more than $200 million to the Saddam Hussein regime.
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Prime Minister John Howard has responded to reports that he was warned by a senior defence officer shortly before Australia went to war against Iraq that Saddam Hussein did not have any banned weapons.