Papa Wemba goes on trial in France for people-trafficking
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Papa Wemba, the &quot;King of Rhumba Rock&quot; and world music star, appeared in court near Paris yesterday accused of taking money to smuggle scores of his fellow Congolese nationals into France.
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A man accused of shooting at French President Jacques Chirac during a Bastille Day parade in 2002 is due to go on trial in Paris.
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French humanitarian workers accused in Chad of trying to smuggle 103 African children to Europe will go on trial on December 21 after authorities speeded up the handling of their case, lawyers said on Thursday.
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An ex-Paris district mayor is among 15 people on trial for alleged vote-rigging when President Jacques Chirac was mayor.
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A trial opens in Paris into the late President Francois Mitterrand's  wiretapping of his opponents.
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A Catholic priest accused of participating in Rwanda's genocide will go on trial at the UN war crimes court.
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A doctor and a nurse go on trial in southern France accused of poisoning a terminally ill cancer patient.
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Twenty-seven people went on trial Monday in western France accused of running a prostitution ring whose profits were laundered via a luxury property development in Thailand.
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Fifteen people charged with committing electoral fraud in municipal elections in Paris in 1989 and 1995 went on trial Monday, including a close ally of President Jacques Chirac.
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Seven suspects, including a popular TV star and a retired diplomat, arrived at a Portuguese court at the start of a high profile trial over the sexual abuse of minors at state-run children's homes.
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A Ghanaian tribal chief is awaiting trial for attempting to smuggle cocaine to Holland in cans of palm soup, an anti-drugs official in the West African country said on Thursday.
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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 Catholic priest accused of participating in Rwanda's genocide goes on trial at the UN war crimes court.
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Jury selection began Monday for a Haitian paramilitary leader convicted in absentia of killing a businessman and ordering a massacre in the early 1990s but is facing the charges again after returning to lead a revolt against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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VANDERBIJLPARK, South Africa  - A businessman  suspected by German prosecutors of helping Libya try to acquire  atomic weapons in 2001 appeared in court in South Africa on  Thursday on charges of trafficking nuclear material.
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A total of 16 people and companies appear in court in eastern France tomorrow for a mammoth three-month trial that will seek to determine responsibility for one of historys worst tunnel disasters.
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A witness has told a Rwandan commission  French troops raped women fleeing militia gangs during the  African country's 1994 genocide, the latest in a string of  allegations against France from Kigali.