Carlos aide acquitted of France raids
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: A German court acquitted Johannes Weinrich, suspected right-hand man of international guerrilla âCarlos the Jackalâ, today of charges that he took part in three bomb attacks in France more than 20 years ago.
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Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was acquitted of treason yesterday in a stunning decision from a court system that routinely favors President Robert Mugabe&#39;s government.
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A French appeals court acquitted three photographers of charges they broke privacy laws by photographing Princess Diana on the night of her fatal accident in Paris in 1997.
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MADRID - A Spanish court yesterday convicted 21 men in the 2004 bombings of Madrid's train system, but acquitted an Egyptian national whom authorities once touted as the mastermind.
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A court acquitted seven men Wednesday of providing logistical support to a Saudi terror cell in the first Swiss trial of alleged al-Qaida associates.
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A British court on Wednesday acquitted American banking heir Matthew Mellon of hiring a private detective to illegally snoop into the finances of his estranged wife.
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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was cleared today by a Milan court of charges that he bribed judges in the 1980s.
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A Zimbabwe court Friday convicted a British man accused of leading a coup plot against the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea on weapons charges, but acquitted most of the 69 other men held with him.
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All 19 managers and consultants accused in the collapse of former national carrier Swissair were acquitted Thursday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A jury yesterday acquitted a leader of a paramilitary group blamed for killing some 3,000 people, after a 14-hour murder trial that angered human rights groups and provoked criticism of the new US-backed government.
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A Zimbabwe court Friday convicted a  British man accused of leading a coup plot against the  government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea on weapons charges,  but acquitted most of the 69 other men held with him.
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A former top aide to the French prime minister is convicted of soliciting sex from a teenage prostitute.
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A Tanzanian accused of involvement in the bombing attack against the US embassy in Dar es Salaam in 1998 was on Wednesday acquitted by Tanzanian High Court.
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Premier Silvio Berlusconi, an important ally for President Bush in Iraq, was acquitted of corruption charges that have dogged his government from the start. The verdict was a boost to the conservative leader ahead of 2006 elections. Berlusconi, 68, has long insisted he was the victim of left-wing prosecutors.
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MAKHACHKALA, Russia -- An ideological aide to Chechen rebel warlord Shamil Basayev was convicted yesterday of involvement in a 1999 raid in the southern Russian region of Dagestan.
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A Libyan court acquitted five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian medic on Sunday of charges of slandering policemen by protesting that their confessions had been extracted under torture.
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LONDON, Feb. 6 -- Prosecutors cleared a political ally of Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday in an investigation into whether Blair's Labor Party awarded government honors in exchange for cash.