Ex-Liberian president leaves Sierra Leone
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor left West Africa on Tuesday for the Netherlands for a long-awaited trial on charges of backing brutal rebels in Sierra Leone.
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Former Liberian President Charles  Taylor, who is on trial for atrocities committed in Sierra  Leone&#39;s civil war, would if convicted serve his sentence in  Britain under an agreement made by British authorities.
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Liberian President Charles Taylor boycotts his war crimes trial as it was due to resume in The Hague.
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Outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday arrived in the small west African nation of Sierra Leone on the second leg of a three-nation African tour.
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Recovering in a New York nursing home from surgery to remove a brain tumor, former Liberian interim President David Kpormakpor is relieved to learn that he will not be deported. At least not this year.
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Fiji's ousted PM leaves the capital as the Pacific island faces international isolation following a bloodless coup.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Former Liberian president Charles Taylor plunged the start of his landmark war crimes trial into chaos yesterday by boycotting the hearing and firing his lawyer, saying he did not believe he would get a fair trial.
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Family and friends of Charles Taylor  held a church service on Sunday in support of the former  Liberian president, on the eve of his trial in The Hague on 11  counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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WASHINGTON - In a surprise announcement, UN Ambassador John C. Danforth said Thursday that he is leaving the key diplomatic post he has held for just five months to return to life in St.
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The family of Mark Thatcher, who was arrested in South Africa last week on suspicion of financing a coup attempt in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, have quit his Cape Town home bound for the United States.
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At a tear-filled press conference yesterday, the NFL's all-time leading rusher walked away from pro football.
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Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor boycotted the opening of his trial in The Hague for war crimes in Sierra Leone on Monday, saying he had lost faith in the U.N.-backed court and upstaging the proceedings.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor boycotted the opening of his war crimes trial Monday and his assigned lawyer walked out of court in a dramatic opening to the first such case brought against a former African leader.
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Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who had death sentences for allegedly contaminating Libyan children with HIV overturned have left Tripoli.
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Dr. Mark McClellan, who has headed   the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the U.S. Food   and Drug Administration, said on Tuesday he was leaving the   federal government.
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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui left for Japan on Monday on a controversial visit that has sparked furious protests from China.
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Sept. 10 -- Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was deported from Pakistan Monday, just hours after he ended seven years of exile and returned to the country determined to take on his nemesis, embattled President Pervez Musharraf. Government officials said he was being flown ...