Du Toit gets 34 years&#39; jail for Guinea coup plot
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A court in Equatorial Guinea found Nick du Toit, a South African former special forces soldier, guilty of a plot to overthrow the President of the oil-rich country and sentenced him to 34 years in prison yesterday.
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A court Friday convicted dozens of alleged mercenaries from South Africa and Armenia and sentenced them to prison terms in an alleged coup plot in this oil-rich African nation, rejecting the death penalty for two of the top figures.
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A Canadian who admitted plotting to bomb U.S. embassies in Singapore and the Philippines was sentenced to life in prison on Friday.
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JOHANNESBURG : Mark Thatcher paid two million rand (250,000 euros/ 300,000 dollars) in bail to end a nine-day house arrest imposed after he was charged with bankrolling a coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, a source close to him said.
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Mauritanian police say they have arrested a former army officer accused of organizing at least two failed coup attempts against President Maaouya Ould Taya in the past 16 months.
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Nick du Toit, the 48-year-old South African mercenary who was one of the organisers of a plot allegedly financed by British businessmen to overthrow the government of Equatorial
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The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced Thursday to 11 months in prison for passport fraud, a day after being indicted on separate torture charges.
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A former Goldman Sachs analyst is sentenced to nearly five years in prison for an insider trading plot.
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Three South Africans were convicted on Wednesday for involvement in a plot to overthrow the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, and local media
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A Moroccan court sentenced 51 Islamists of the Ansar El Mahdi group to between two and 25 years in jail Friday for plotting to overthrow the government here and install an Islamist regime.
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French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was handed a three-month suspended jail sentence on Friday for describing the Nazi occupation of France as "not especially inhumane."
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China sentenced a former senior   provincial official to 11 years in jail for taking bribes,   state media reported on Tuesday, adding to the toll of cadres   punished in the Communist Party's anti-corruption drive.
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A US citizen is jailed for 23 years for illegal financial dealings linked to an alleged plot by Libya to kill the Saudi Crown Prince.
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The British government knew about the alleged plot to overthrow the President of Equatorial Guinea at least five weeks before a group of mercenaries was arrested in March for planning the coup.
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Mark Thatcher, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was arrested and charged Wednesday with helping to finance a foiled coup attempt in oil rich Equatorial Guinea.
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Alleged mercenary leader Nick du Toit told a court here on Monday that he had recruited personnel and taken charge of logistics for an attempted coup bid in Equatorial Guinea.
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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea A court convicted dozens of alleged mercenaries from South Africa and Armenia on Friday and sentenced them to prison terms for an alleged coup plot.