Oil spill trial opens in France
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France begins a trial over the 1999 Erika oil spill - one of the country's worst environmental disasters.
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Trial began Thursday for two of Parmalat SpA's former auditors, the first since the massive fraud scandal at the dairy giant unfolded just over a year ago.
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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea -- Financiers in Europe and Africa were behind a plot to overthrow the government of Africa's number three oil producer, an accused ringleader testified yesterday at the opening of the continent's biggest mercenary trial in decades.
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The trial of five men and a company accused of manslaughter in relation to the Hatfield rail crash begins.
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Investigators are testing oil wiped from the coated bodies of birds to try to determine the origin of a mysterious oil spill somewhere along a 90-mile stretch of the Southern California coast.
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Allies of Jacques Chirac went on trial on   Monday charged with vote-rigging in Paris at a time when the   French president was city mayor.
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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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A French man accused of -plotting to attack an Australian nuclear power station goes on trial in Paris.
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France's highest court paved the way Friday for a trial of officials being investigated in connection with the 2000 crash of a Concorde jet that killed 113 people.
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Nearly three years after Enron Corp.&#39;s dramatic collapse into bankruptcy, the first criminal trial against the disgraced energy company&#39;s former employees is set to kick off on Monday.
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Commercial vessels began using a southwestern Louisiana shipping channel on Friday for the first time since a spill of 47,000 barrels of oil forced its closure last week and tapped the nation&#039;s oil reserve.
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The landmark trial of a foreign national accused of a crime that occurred outside Britain opened Friday against an Afghan warlord accused of conspiring to kidnap and torture in his homeland.
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An alleged side deal that wiped out the legitimacy of Enron Corp.&#39;s sale of equity in three barges to Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. in late 1999 lies at the heart of the first criminal trial to emerge from the bankrupt energy company&#39;s scandal.
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Nearly three years after Enron Corp.'s  dramatic collapse into bankruptcy, the first criminal trial against the disgraced energy company's former employees is set to kick off on Monday.
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French authorities said Wednesday they had opened a preliminary criminal probe into a lawmaker who headed a failed freelance mission to Iraq to free two French reporters who were finally released by their ...
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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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A Paris court convicts French oil company Total of maritime pollution over the 1999 sinking of the tanker Erika.