Ex-Liberian leader's son pleads innocent
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The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor pleaded not guilty Monday to a new U.S. indictment charging him with being involved in brutal killings and torture in the west African nation from 1999 to 2002.
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Mark Thatcher, the son of British former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, will plead guilty to charges of bankrolling an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea in a Cape Town court in a plea bargain with the state, a source close to him said.
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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea  - Equatorial Guinea  wants Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister  Margaret Thatcher, extradited from South Africa after his  arrest on suspicion of involvement in a coup attempt, one of  the country's lawyers said Thursday.
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Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, appeared in a South African court on Tuesday on charges he helped bankroll a coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea.
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The Justice Department invoked a 12-year-old federal anti-torture statute for the first time yesterday, indicting the son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor in connection with the alleged use of a hot iron, scalding water and an electrical device to shock and burn an ally of his father's...
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The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was indicted Wednesday on U.S. charges of committing torture as chief of a paramilitary unit during his father's regime.
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An imprisoned rebel leader wanted in the United States on drug trafficking, kidnapping and terror charges said he was innocent and was framed by American agents, but he believed his extradition was imminent, according to media reports Thursday.
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An insider once close to former Liberian President Charles Taylor who can link him to atrocities committed in Sierra Leone will be among the first witnesses in Taylor's trial, his prosecutor said on Friday.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor boycotted the opening of his war crimes trial, calling it a "charade" in a letter read by his attorney, Karim Ahmad Khan. In the same letter, Taylor also dismissed Khan from the case and asked to represent himself.
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Kosovo's former prime minister pleaded innocent Thursday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to charges of involvement in the murder, rape and torture of Serbs and suspected Serb collaborators in the province's 1998-99 war.
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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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Colombia&#39;s alleged drug kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, head of the notorious Cali drug cartel, said he was innocent before he was extradited to the United States over the weekend.
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An Iraqi-American pleads guilty to four charges connected to the UN oil-for-food scandal.
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An Iraqi-American on Tuesday pleaded  guilty to conspiracy, violating economic sanctions and other  charges in connection with corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food  program for Iraq, court documents showed.
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WASHINGTON - A Liberian man was sentenced Friday to nearly three years in prison for trying to extort $2 million from the Christian Science Monitor by promising to win the release of journalist Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped in Iraq.
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Malawi's vice president pleaded innocent Monday to charges of treason and conspiring to murder the president at the start of his trial in this southern African nation.
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ELEANOR HALL: It&#39;s a sensational story - allegations that the son of a former British Prime Minister has been implicated in an attempt to overthrow a West African government.