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The single biggest opportunity -- and potential difficulty -- for the incoming administration's plan to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, comes from the same group of Yemeni prisoners, who make up fully 40 percent of the detainees still held there.
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A federal appeals court Monday blocked the release of 17 Chinese Muslims into the United States from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, until it can hear further legal arguments in the case.
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A federal appeals court last night blocked the release of 17 Chinese Muslims into the United States from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, until it can hear further legal arguments in the case.
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Police launch a murder inquiry after the burnt body of an ex-prisoner is discovered in Motherwell.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The next U.S. president, whether it is Barack Obama or John McCain, will likely shut down Guantanamo Bay prison camp but may decide to keep some prisoners indefinitely, a U.N. rights envoy said on Wednesday.
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Canada's federal prison ombudsman might release his report about a New Brunswick teen's suicide in an Ontario prison now that the guards have unveiled their own report blaming prison policies.
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Newcastle manager Joe Kinnear has called for the club's fans to rally behind disgraced midfielder against West Brom.
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A Yemeni national was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of serving as a Qaeda propagandist by a panel of military officers in the second "war on terror" trial at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon said.
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President-elect Barack Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, sources say.
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The Obama administration will launch a review of the classified files of the approximately 250 detainees at Guantanamo Bay immediately after taking office, as part of an intensive effort to close the U.S. prison in Cuba, reports the Washington Post.
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For the first time, a federal judge today ordered the release of alleged enemy combatants from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ruling that the government had provided insufficient evidence to continue their detentions.
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A US federal judge ruled that five Algerian prisoners at Guantanamo Bay must be released. They have served nearly seven years, and had legally challenged their confinement in June. The White House said it disagreed with the decision.
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The government's case against five Algerian natives, accused of plotting with Al Qaeda, is weak, a federal judge in Washington says. A federal judge ruled here for the first time Thursday that the Bush administration had no basis for holding several of its long-term prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and he ordered that five of the Algerian natives go free.
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For the first time, a federal judge ordered the release yesterday of detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay after evaluating and rejecting government allegations that five men were dangerous enemy combatants.
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If Eric Holden is appointed at the head of the American justice, he will have to deal with candidate Barack Obama’s promise to close the Guantanamo prison. The web reacts.
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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit indicated that a federal judge might have acted too quickly last month in ordering the immediate release of the 17 men.
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Our correspondents got a rare look at the inside of Guantanamo prison, where they visited Camp 4, a facility for its less difficult detainees. Despite the prison's imminent closure, the US Army continues to allow journalists in.
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The United States urge the Belarusian authorities to release American citizen Emanuel Zeltser on humanitarian grounds, the US Department of State says.
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The weeds are already growing rampant at the notorious "Camp X-Ray," and President-elect Barack Obama plans to shut down the entire detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Now the Pentagon is inviting journalists to tour the camp one last time.
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The Pentagon is drawing up plans to shut the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be prepared for any order from President-elect Barack Obama, who has promised to close the controversial facility after he assumes office Jan. 20, a defense official said yesterday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge refused to release two Guantanamo terrorism suspects on Tuesday and upheld the government's authority to keep them, after ordering freedom last month for five prisoners whose case led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling.
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A US judge has refused to release two terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, saying the government had shown enough evidence to hold Yemeni Moath Ahmed Al Alwi and Tunisian Hisham Sliti as "enemy combatants".
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia is considering a U.S. request to re-settle inmates from the Guantanamo Bay military prison camp, but would apply strict security screening before accepting an unspecified number.
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Lawmakers emerge from session on Palin ethics
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Tammy Thomas, the former cyclist who was convicted in April in connection with the Balco investigation, will not serve time in prison, an encouraging sign for Barry Bonds.
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The WiPC protests the three-year prison sentence and exorbitant fine imposed on the well known singer-songwriter Lapiro de Mbanga (real name Pierre Roger Lambo Sandjo) on 24 September 2008 for allegedly taking part in anti-government riots. Mbanga is known as
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Reporters Without Borders expressed outrage at a ten-year prison sentence handed down today by a court in Nukus, in the west of the country, to Solidzhon Abdurakhmanov, correspondent for several independent websites. Reporters Without Borders questioned foreign minister, Vladimir Norov
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Rangers midfielder Barry Ferguson expects to be ready for first-team action by early November.
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Afghanistan's intelligence service said Saturday it broke up a Taliban plot to attack the country's most notorious prison with a wave of suicide bombers.
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After spending two weeks out of town, two Dominican nuns returned to their Baltimore home to find letters and an e-mail from the Maryland State Police saying they were wrongfully labeled as suspected terrorists in a federal database.
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A British publisher said it would delay the publication of the novel “The Jewel of Medina,” by Sherry Jones, according to the British Web site TheBookseller.com.
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Confrontation outside Giants ballpark following historic home run
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A British company has delayed publication of a controversial novel about one of the Prophet Muhammad's wives after its offices were fire-bombed. The author, American Sherry Jones, has also cancelled a publicity tour to Germany.
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Afghanistan's intelligence service said Saturday it broke up a Taliban plot to attack the country's most notorious prison with a wave of suicide bombers.
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