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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor gets 50 years for war crimes
Former Liberian President Charles Taylorwill likely spend the rest of his life in jail after a U.N.-backed court sentenced him to 50 years in prison for aiding and abetting war crimes. Taylor , 64, is the first former head of state to be convicted by...
Tags: Crimes, Sierra Leone, Civil Rights, Charles Taylor, Lawyers
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Gestures of censure on Syria show world's outrage, paralysis
World NowThe White House has expressed its "absolute disgust" over the latest massacre in Syria. Nine Western nations have expelled Syrian diplomats from their territories to underscore their revulsion. Senior United Nations officials have warned both sides in the... -
Julian Assange loses appeal against extradition
World NowJulian Assanges loses appeal against extradition as Britain's highest court ruled five to two saying "the Swedish public prosecutor was a judicial authority."... -
Muslim cleric suspected of terrorism loses bail appeal in London
World NowAbu Qatada, a A Muslim cleric imprisoned on suspicion of terrorism in Britain and convicted in absentia in Jordan on similar charges, will remain in a British jail while awaiting a hearing on his appeal of an extradition order, a judge said.... -
Warnings issued after Santa Ana child contracts typhus
L.A. NOWOrange County health officials are urging residents to keep their pets, yards and homes free of fleas after a Santa Ana child contracted typhus.... -
African refugees in Israel get a cold shoulder and worse
TEL AVIV — The first Molotov cocktail ignited a backyard fence, just a couple of feet from where three Eritrean refugees were sleeping outdoors on makeshift beds of wood planks atop old TV sets. One man burned his arm trying to extinguish the flames...
Tags: Politics, Immigration, Benjamin Netanyahu, Deportation, United Nations
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L.A. County seeks extradition of woman in ex-husband's slaying
L.A. NOWLos Angeles County authorities are seeking the extradition of a woman arrested in Mississippi this week on a murder warrant in connection with the fatal shooting of her former husband in Whittier.... -
Sea Shepherd's Watson arrested, faces extradition to Costa Rica
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson, who was arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, on May 13, has been freed on bail and awaits possible extradition to Costa Rica. He and Sea Shepherd's director of investigations, Scott West, met with Costa...
Tags: Interpol, Police Arrests, Germany, National Defense Authorization Act, Animal Planet (tv network)
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Judge OKs extradition of accused arsonist Harry Burkhart's mother
The mother of suspected serial arsonist Harry Burkhart, whose arrest on German fraud charges allegedly triggered her son's fire-starting rampage, should be extradited to her home country, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles F. Eick...
Tags: Criminals, Witnesses, Judges, Justice System, Germany
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20 children reportedly slain in recent eastern Congo violence
World NowTwenty children are believed to have lost their lives in recent outbreaks of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including two burned alive in their own home, UNICEF said Tuesday.... -
Former Guatemalan dictator can't escape the past
Things just went from bad to worse for former Guatemala dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt. The 85-year-old is already charged with human rights abuses committed during that country’s 36-year civil war. This week a judge added a second genocide...
Tags: Politics, International Court or Tribunal, Guatemala, Massacres, Wars and Interventions
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