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One-half of a Montreal duo accused of firebombing two Jewish institutions was sentenced to four years in prison Monday for what a Quebec court judge decried as an act of terrorism.
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Nicolo Rizzuto, the presumed patriarch of Montreal's Mafia, was handed a suspended sentence Thursday with three years probation.
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No relative or friend of the more than 100 UK citizens who has gone abroad to Dignitas clinics to die has been prosecuted. But the risk is always there. Under the present law, anyone who helps facilitate a suicide faces up to 14 years in jail. Mark and Julie James, Daniel's parents, will be watching carefully the outcome of a case, expected this week, which seeks to clarify the law on assisted suicide.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A former Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice apologized Monday for signing an e-mail to Jewish voters that likened a vote for Barack Obama to ignoring warning signals that led to the Holocaust....
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A rabbi and eight rabbinical students were harassed and abused by two people in a passing car in Berlin on Saturday night. The attack comes as Germany continues working towards a parliamentary statement condemning anti-Semitism.
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As President-elect Barack Obama confronts myriad domestic and foreign issues, one of the most critical will be what to do about the Terrorist Surveillance Program and other highly classified, covert programs that caused substantial civil liberties concerns during much of the Bush administration. pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Front-TheWashingtonTimesAmericasNewspaper?a=VRBa5z"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Front-TheWashingtonTimesAmericasNewspaper?i=VRBa5z" border="0"/img/a/p
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A Montreal man accused of firebombing a Jewish school was sentenced to four years in prison for what a judge described as a terrorist act.
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Iraq's notorious "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid has been sentenced to death - for the second time - for crimes against humanity committed during Saddam Hussein's brutal 1991 campaign to crush a Shia uprising.
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Judge: Lord Emslie said when he sentenced Tobin: “By the verdict of the jury, you stand convicted of the truly evil abduction and murder of a vulnerable young girl in 1991 and thereafter of attempting to defeat the ends of justice in various ways over an extended period."
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A federal judge in Seattle has re-imposed a 22-year sentence on terrorist Ahmed Ressam. Prosecutors had sought a life term.
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The man, Youssef Muhammad el-Hajdib, was convicted on multiple counts of attempted murder for leaving two suitcase bombs on the trains in Cologne in July 2006 that failed to explode.
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A distraught, sobbing Afghan Taliban member begged the court for mercy, but got none as an unmoved federal judge here Monday handed down maximum life sentences for convictions on drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges.
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Signs are mounting that the conflict in Gaza is starting to spill over into violence in Europe's towns and cities, with assaults against Jews and arson attacks on Jewish congregations in France, Sweden and Britain.
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His approval ratings hover at a record low, his credibility is close to zero and he'll be out of office in three months. But George Bush's address to the nation yesterday underlines how, despite everything, he is a key figure in a financial crisis that is no longer measured in months but in days and even hours.
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LAKEVILLE, Minn. (AP) -- The anger is getting raw at Republican rallies and John McCain is acting to tamp it down. McCain was booed by his own supporters Friday when, in an abrupt switch from raising questions about Barack Obama's character, he described the Democrat as a "decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States."...
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- An Army trainee will face nonjudicial punishment rather than criminal charges for beating a Jewish soldier so badly he was treated by a hospital, the military said Friday, in a move that keeps many details of the attack secret....
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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 attack came after elders in a Pakistani tribal area had vowed to push Taliban extremists out of their region, and were planning the details of how to wipe out a Taliban headquarters.
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After running ads that tie Barack Obama to a domestic terrorist, John McCain is toning it down. Dana Bash reports.
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A stainless steel net may soon hang underneath the Golden Gate Bridge to stop people from attempting suicide by jumping off.
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Fabio Capello confirms Arsenal youngster's importance in future plans but has words of counsel too for the winger
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Darren Fletcher has been told by manager George Burley to concentrate on damaging runs into the Norway's penalty area.
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Some of the anger is getting raw at Republican rallies as supporters of John McCain see his presidential campaign lag, and John McCain is mostly letting that rage flare.
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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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WITH Jasmine Birtles...
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In 1980, a few days after the SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in Knightsbridge, I stepped inside the damaged building. There were cracks in the walls and ceilings, and crystal tear drops from a chandelier lay among debris on the floor. I stood in the hall where a hostage had been murdered during the six-day siege and tried to picture the moments after the SAS burst in, leaving alive only one of the hostage-takers: an Iranian called Fowzi Nejad. Last week, Nejad learned that he is finally about to be freed from prison. He has also been assured that he will not then be deported back to Iran.
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The attack came after elders in a Pakistani tribal area had vowed to push Taliban extremists out of their region, and were planning the details of how to wipe out a Taliban headquarters.
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CHICAGO -- Juan Torres didn't believe that his son, Army Reservist Juan "John" M. Torres, had killed himself in Afghanistan just weeks before he was to return home in July 2004. He figured that John, 25, was murdered because of his opposition to the reportedly rampant heroin trade around the base.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up at a meeting of anti-Taliban tribal leaders in a Pakistani region on the Afghan border Friday, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens, officials said. The explosion happened a day after a force
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Police clashed with Jewish protesters in Acre on Friday as Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni traveled to the northern Israeli city to appeal for calm after two days of clashes between Palestinian and Jewish Israelis. Police fired a water cannon at
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Government plans to increase the terror detention limit to 42 days will be defeated in the Lords, David Davis says.
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Lewis Hamilton lead cut to five points after McLaren driver finishes 12th in Japan with Felipe Massa in seventh.
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Flyers LW Scott Hartnell scored a short-handed goal during Saturday's 4-3 loss to the Rangers. He finished at plus-1 in 15:39 of ice time and even replaced Mike Knuble on the top power-play unit.
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Tomas Plihal scored the short-handed go-ahead goal, and the Sharks overwhelmed Los Angeles with 41 shots in a 3-1 victory Saturday night, blemishing Kings coach Terry Murray's debut. With Joe Thornton in the penalty box late in the second period, Marc-Edouard Vlasic threaded a difficult long pass down the boards to Plihal. The rookie deked defenseman Jack Johnson before beating Jason LaBarbera to the stick side for his first goal.
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