CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- South African police arrested Mark Thatcher, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, early Wednesday on allegations he was involved in a plot to ...

July 7 (Reuters) - British mercenary Simon Mann was jailed on Monday for 34 years by a court in Equatorial Guinea for a failed 2004 coup plot in which he said the son of former British Prime Minister ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa The son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pleaded guilty Thursday to unwittingly helping bankroll a botched coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, and in ...

(Adds details, quotes, background) By Daniel Flynn MALABO, June 18 (Reuters) - The son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was a leader of a 2004 coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, appeared in a South African court on Tuesday on charges he helped bankroll a coup attempt in ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Sir Mark Thatcher pleaded guilty Thursday to unwittingly helping to finance a foiled coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, accepting a $506,000 fine and suspended jail ...

The tiny West African nation has hit the headlines because of a coup attempt allegedly involving Mark Thatcher, the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. A trial in Equatorial Guinea ...

A court in Equatorial Guinea convicted 24 accused European and African mercenaries and opposition leaders on Friday and sentenced them to prison for an alleged coup plot in the oil-rich nation, but it ...