Rose Kabuye, a close associate of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, was placed under judicial investigation Wednesday in France over the April 1994 assassination of then-president Juvenal Habyarimana that preceded the Rwandan genocide, a judicial source said.

RABAT, Oct 3, 2007 (AFP) - Moroccan magistrates placed a suicide bomber who survived his own attack against a tourist bus in August in preventive detention Wednesday, the Moroccan news agency Map reported.

Hicham Doukkali, 30, has only recently recovered from his injuries sufficiently to go before the court in Sale, near the Moroccan capital, Rabat.

YANGON, Sept 28, 2007 (AFP) - Myanmar police launched baton charges against some 10,000 demonstrators in the centre of Myanmar's main city Friday, in an attempt to force them to disperse, witnesses said.

Security forces issued warnings on loudspeakers, ordering the crowd, which massed on a road leading to Yangon's Sule Pagoda, to disperse.

LOS ANGELES, Sept 19, 2007 (AFP) - The jury in the Phil Spector murder trial will not be given the option of considering a lesser charge against the legendary music producer, a judge ruled on Wednesday.

Judge Larry Paul Fidler ruled against instructing the jury to consider whether Spector was guilty of involuntary manslaughter instead of second degree murder, saying there was a danger it might lead to a tainted verdict.

PHNOM PENH, Sept 19, 2007 (AFP) - Top Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea was formally charged Wednesday with war crimes and crimes against humanity, a spokesman for Cambodia's UN-backed genocide tribunal told AFP.

'The co-investigating judges charged him with crimes against humanity and also with war crimes. The judges have put him in provisional detention' pending further investigation, spokesman Reach Sambath said.

CAMP PENDLETON, California, Aug 30, 2007 (AFP) - One of 18 murder charges faced by a US Marines sergeant in connection with the killing of 24 Iraqis in Haditha two years ago has been withdrawn, prosecutors said Thursday.

Prosecutors did not give a reason for the decision to drop the murder charge faced by Sergeant Frank Wuterich, as a preliminary hearing to determine if he will stand trial got underway at the Marines Camp Pendleton base.

Wuterich now faces 17 counts of murder in connection with the alleged massacre which took place in November 2005.

LONDON, Aug 1, 2007 (AFP) - A 23-year-old man will appear in court Thursday in connection with the failed bombings in London launched two weeks after the July 7, 2005 attacks that killed more than 50 people in the capital.

British police on Wednesday charged Lukimon Sulaimon with failing to disclose information 'which might help in bringing a terrorist to justice in the UK,' London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

He will appear before City of Westminster Magistrates Court in central London on Thursday.

SYDNEY, July 27, 2007 (AFP) - Australia's top prosecutor on Friday dropped charges against an Indian-born doctor accused of involvement in a series of failed British car bombings, admitting mistakes had been made.

Prosecutors withdrew the case against Mohamed Haneef at a Brisbane court hearing that had been intended to discuss the charge alleging he 'recklessly' supported the terror group behind abortive bombings in Britain last month.