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03/04/2012 - France

Islamists plotting kidnap of Jewish judge say French sources

Some of the 16 suspected Islamic militants detained in France on Friday allegedly planned to kidnap a Jewish magistrate and other people, a source close to the investigation said on Tuesday.

17/02/2012 - France - Equatorial Guinea

Paris police seize luxury goods worth millions from Obiang mansion

French police have hauled away two lorry-loads of precious objects from the luxurious Paris mansion of Teodorin Obiang, the son of Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, and on ...

09/01/2012 - Malaysia

Malaysia opposition leader Anwar cleared of sodomy charge after two-year trial

An unexpected decision on Monday has acquitted Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sexual misconduct with a young male aide at the end of a two-year sodomy trial that he described as a ...

17/12/2011 - France

French court sentences Briton to 12 years in lady in the lake case

A court in southern France has sentenced a British citizen Robert Lund to 12 years in prison for killing his wife and dumping her body in a lake near their home in the rural Tarn region.

08/03/2011 - Sudan

Two Darfur rebel leaders to be tried at ICC

The International Criminal Court said Tuesday that it would try two rebel leaders from Darfur for the deaths of 12 African peacekeepers in 2007.

19/01/2011 - Afghanistan

Afghan parliament opening postponed a month

The opening of Afghanistan's new parliament has been delayed by a month, President Hamid Karzai's office said Wednesday.

01/12/2010 - France - Spain

Former Eta leader sentenced to prison in France

A former leader the Basque nationalist group Eta, José Antonio Urrutikoetxea, was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison by a Paris appeals court

22/11/2010 - France

Prosecutors call for prison terms for growth hormone doctors

Prosecutors have called for a three-year prison sentence for a biochemist accused of causing the wrongful death of 119 people to whom he administered tainted growth hormones in the 1980s.

21/10/2010 - Pakistan

Pakistani court orders review of judge appointment change

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered parliament to review a constitutional change that would give MPs a say in the appointment of judges.

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