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By Lauren Comiteau The Hague 07 January 2008 After months of delay, the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor resumed with prosecutors calling their first witness - a Canadian diamond and development expert who testified how diamonds fuel...
By Tom Rivers London 22 May 2007 British prosecutors say former Russian spy Andrei Lugovoi should be charged with the murder of one-time Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko, who died in London after being poisoned last year. For VOA, To...
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 06 November 2006 Shabir Shaik, one-time financial advisor to former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma, has lost his appeal in the Supreme Court of Appeal against his conviction on charges of fraud and corrupti...