Liberia's Taylor absent as war crimes trial starts
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Liberia's former President Charles Taylor stayed away from the start of his war crimes trial at The Hague on Monday, saying he had lost confidence in the U.N.-backed court for Sierra Leone.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor left West Africa on Tuesday for the Netherlands for a long-awaited trial on charges of backing brutal rebels in Sierra Leone.
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Sir Mark Thatcher is to be tried in absentia by a court in Equatorial Guinea, a defence lawyer says.
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The war crimes trial of ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor is to resume in The Hague after a six-month gap.
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Britain agreed to imprison Liberian former president Charles Taylor if he is convicted of war crimes, clearing the way for his trial in the Netherlands over some of Africa&#039;s worst atrocities.
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The war crimes trial of the ultra-nationalist Serb politician Vojislav Seselj has opened in his absence, after the hunger-striking defendant failed to appear in court in The Hague.
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It has been dubbed Hamlet without the prince, a trial where the accused is absent but which could determine if he is to rule South Africa.
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A blood diamond expert and an account from a Sierra Leonean miner who said laughing rebels hacked off his hands and burned his family opened the war crimes trial against Liberia's Charles Taylor on Monday.
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Former Liberian president Charles Taylor boycotted the resumption of his war crimes trial Monday, again blocking efforts to try him on charges of orchestrating a murderous terror campaign during Sierra Leone's 10-year civil war.
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The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor pleaded not guilty Monday to a new U.S. indictment charging him with being involved in brutal killings and torture in the west African nation from 1999 to 2002.
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An insider once close to Charles Taylor will testify that the toppled Liberian president had links to militias who rampaged through Sierra Leone, the chief prosecutor said Friday.
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Saddam Hussein's genocide trial resumed Monday but without lawyers representing the ex-president or his six co-defendants.
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Former Liberian leader accused of war crimes fails to show up for start of his trial at The Hague.
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THE HAGUE, Jan. 7 -- The war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president, heard its first testimony Monday and saw video of victims telling of being sexually assaulted or dismembered by rebels who plundered West African diamond fields.
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Liberian President Charles Taylor boycotts his war crimes trial as it was due to resume in The Hague.
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Judges on Thursday ordered the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor delayed until Aug. 20 to provide time for a new defense team to prepare its case.
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The first trial involving the CIA's extraordinary renditions program opens Friday in the absence of all 26 American defendants accused of kidnapping an Egyptian terrorist suspect.