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News Lebanon prosecutor charges six suspects in German train terror plot
Lebanon prosecutor charges six suspects in German train terror plot
Katerina Ossenova
September 3, 2006 09:37:00 am

A Lebanese prosecutor Saturday charged six suspects - four held in Lebanon and two in Germany - with attempted murder after they were arrested in connection with a plot to blow up trains in Germany one month...

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News Australia judge calls control order against released terror suspect ‘farcical’
Australia judge calls control order against released terror suspect ‘farcical’
Katerina Ossenova
August 31, 2006 04:49:00 pm

An Australian magistrate called a control order issued for terror suspect Joseph Terrence "Jihad Jack" Thomas "farcical" on Thursday since, among other things, the order prohibits Thomas from contacting Osama Bin Laden ....

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News ICTY prosecutors seek life sentence for former Bosnian Serb parliament speaker
ICTY prosecutors seek life sentence for former Bosnian Serb parliament speaker
Katerina Ossenova
August 31, 2006 04:15:00 pm

Prosecutors in the war crimes case against Momcilo Krajisnik , a former Bosnian Serb speaker of parliament and the right hand man to former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic , have called for...

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News China court sentences Singapore reporter to five years for espionage
China court sentences Singapore reporter to five years for espionage
Katerina Ossenova
August 31, 2006 03:45:00 pm

Ching Cheong , chief China correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times , was sentenced to five years in jail by a Chinese court on Thursday after being convicted on charges of selling state secrets and spying...

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News Uganda to ask ICC to retract war crimes indictments for LRA rebels
Uganda to ask ICC to retract war crimes indictments for LRA rebels
Katerina Ossenova
August 31, 2006 03:11:00 pm

The Ugandan government said Thursday that it will ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) to withdraw its plans to arrest leaders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) . If the indicted...

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News Gonzales urges enforcement of rule of law in Iraq
Gonzales urges enforcement of rule of law in Iraq
Katerina Ossenova
August 29, 2006 04:56:00 pm

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said during a one-day visit to Baghdad Tuesday that enforcement of the rule of law is essential to Iraq's future, but stressed that it was up to the country's leaders...

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News Libya AIDS trial prosecutor calls for death penalty for Bulgarian nurses
Libya AIDS trial prosecutor calls for death penalty for Bulgarian nurses
Katerina Ossenova
August 29, 2006 04:20:00 pm

The prosecutor in the Libyan retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus, on Tuesday called for the death penalty in the case. The...

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News Saudi Arabia frees former Guantanamo detainees cleared of crimes
Saudi Arabia frees former Guantanamo detainees cleared of crimes
Katerina Ossenova
August 29, 2006 03:48:00 pm

Saudi Arabia has released nine of 29 former Guantanamo detainees in its custody on Tuesday after investigations revealed that they had not committed any crimes. Charges are still being reviewed for the remainder. Earlier this year,...

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News Jordan opposition parties slam new anti-terror measure as ‘martial law’
Jordan opposition parties slam new anti-terror measure as ‘martial law’
Katerina Ossenova
August 29, 2006 03:08:00 pm

Opposition parties in Jordan on Tuesday condemned anti-terrorism legislation approved Sunday by Jordan's National Assembly , comparing the new measures to "martial law" and voicing fear that the law will be used to curtail individual liberties....

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News Court-martial begins for UK soldiers charged in Iraqi civilian death
Court-martial begins for UK soldiers charged in Iraqi civilian death
Katerina Ossenova
April 24, 2006 08:11:00 pm

Legal arguments began in Colchester, England, Monday in the court-martrial trial of four British soldiers accused of killing an Iraqi prisoner in the southern Iraqi city of Basra in May 2003. The four soldiers are accused of forcing Ahmed...

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