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 An internal e-mail from AstraZeneca Plc showed that the drug company hided some unfavorable studies on its antipsychotic drug Seroquel. The e-mail was unsealed as part the legal suit over the medicine. AstraZeneca didn’t publish the results of three clinical trials made on Seroquel and instead it picked only the information used from the...
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London - Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has dampened speculation that he is about to resign from his job, saying he is hoping to sign a new contract sooner rather than later.
The Spaniard, whose contract runs until the end of next season, was the subject of a flurry of betting activity on Wednesday, causing a number of bookmakers to...
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London - The Los Angeles Galaxy were considering on Thursday a plea from David Beckham to let him join AC Milan on a permanent basis.
The England midfielder joined the Italian giants on loan last month, and is due to return to the US on March 9.
But the 33 year old's form there has confounded critics who expected him to make the...
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AC Milan and lawyers for David Beckham were set to begin negotiations Thursday for the loan of the English star to the Serie A powerhouse.
The ANSA news agency quoted Milan vice president Adriano Galliani as saying that representatives of the 33-year-old midfielder advanced the date of a meeting originally scheduled for next...
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Russia's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has rejected claims of possible match-fixing at last season's UEFA Cup semi-final involving Zenit St Petersburg and Bayern Munich.
"Do you think that such world and European champions like (Bayern players) Kahn, Klose, Ze Roberto and Lucio can be bought," Mutko was quoted as saying...
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Psychologists have studied suspects and have been looking for mental quirks. They have also suggested the lines of interrogation and questioning and have helped in deciding when an argument is too intense, or when to push harder in getting what you want. Psychologists in the military and C.I.A. interrogation have marked a central...
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Ailing Democratic fundraiser Fred Baron obtained an experimental cancer
drug, according to an e-mail sent by his son on Thursday.
As Andrew Baron wrote in the e-mail, his father was given the experimental cancer-fighting
drug called Tysabri, hoping that it would overturn physicians’ opinion, who categorize
a case of multiple...
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 According to the Associated Press, over 120 workers at a Los Angeles hospital read without permission celebrities' medical records and other personal information between January 2004 and June 2006.Ignoring the messages saying that unauthorized access to medical records would lead to sanctions and disciplinary measures taken by UCLA, 127...
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The Justice Department informed Friday that they have
reached a $4.6 million settlement with former U.S. Army scientist Steven
Hatfill, who was the prime suspect in the deadly anthrax letters of 2001.
The mailings were common hand-addressed letters, but they
contained tiny quantities of deadly anthrax powder. The first letter...
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 Gary Gygax, the creator of the first role-playing game
“Dungeons and Drangons”, died at his home in Lake Geneva, at the age of
sixty-nine.
According to the Associated Press, his wife informed that he
had been suffering from an inoperable abdominal aneurysm for a long time. He
was survived by his wife, as well as by his six...
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 A clinic in Las Vegas was ordered to shut down after
authorities discovered that more than 40,000 patients may have been exposed to deadly
diseases such a hepatitis C and the HIV virus, through the reuse of syringes
and vials.
The Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada "was served
with an emergency suspension of its business...
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 troubled singer Britney Spears has finally obtained the
permission to visit her children. The 26-year-old pop star spent Saturday
almost three hours with 2-year-old Sean Preston and 1-year-old Jayden
James. The visit comes after a two-month break, as Spears had previously
seen her children on January 3rd.
According to People...
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 South African double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will not be
allowed to compete at the Beijing Olympics because the prosthetics he
uses give him an advantage over able-bodied athletes, the ruling body
IAAF said on Monday.
The IAAF said in a statement from its Monte Carlo headquarters that
Pistorius is not eligible to compete...
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 Olympic three-time gold medalist Marion Jones on Friday was sentenced
to spend six months in jail for lying about using steroids and a
check-fraud scam, media reports said.
Jones, the first woman to claim five medals in an Olympics, could
have faced up to 10 years in jail for the offences, and even under a
plea deal faced up to 37...
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Beijing - China on Thursday rejected as "interference" a US State Department report that said human rights worsened in China in 2008.
"The United States should examine its own human rights issues, stop calling itself a human rights guardian and (stop) interfering in other countries' domestic affairs by issuing...
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A court in Spain's Basque region on Monday dropped charges against regional Prime Minister Juan Jose Ibarretxe, who had gone on an unprecedented trial for meeting with the illegal separatist party Batasuna in 2006.
Batasuna is regarded as the political wing of the militant Basque separatist group ETA.
The Superior Tribunal of...
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A Russian court on Friday denied granting parole to former Yukos oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, news agencies reported.
Khodorkovsky, 45, once Russia's richest man, applied for parole having served over half of an eight-year jail term for large-scale tax evasion charges against his former oil empire Yukos.
"The court ruled...
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Pakistan's erstwhile strongman Pervez Musharraf resigned as president Monday, succumbing to pressure from the new ruling coalition to quit or face impeachment by parliament.
Born in Delhi on August 11, 1943 to educated parents, Musharraf came to Pakistan with his family after the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947.
He...
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Texas was preparing to execute a 33-year-old
Mexican man on Tuesday, defying a ruling by an international court,
orders from US President George W Bush and demands from the
Organization of American States, the US secretary of state and the US
attorney general. The case, which has become a cause celebre
among death penalty...
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A court in The Hague is due to rule on
Thursday whether or not it is authorized to hear a case about the role
of the United Nations during the fall of the Muslim enclave Srebrenica
in 1995. After Bosnian Serbs reconquered the Muslim enclave,
they deported and murdered at least 8,000 people. Dutch UN peacekeepers
who were supposed...
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 Hu Jia, 34, activist and dissident in the People’s Republic
of China,
was sentenced to three-and-a-half years on Thursday. The verdict was: guilty
of “inciting subversion of state power” for criticizing the Communist Party.
The United
States expressed an opposite opinion
regarding this issue and international...
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 A book in which the former wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy
calls him a philanderer who is unworthy of being president went on sale
Friday after a Paris court rejected her demand to stop its publication,
France-Info radio reported.
In the book, entitled simply Cecilia, the former Madame Sarkozy is
quoted by author Anna...
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 An Australian jury proved to be quite a disappointment for
both the judge and the lawyers who have been dealing with a drug trial for the past three months. It
turned out that five members of the jury in case were playing Sudoku during the
hearing while everybody thought that they were taking notes. As a result, Sydney
District Court...
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 A court ruling Friday cleared the way for an Indian doctor held briefly
on terrorism charges to return to his job in an Australian hospital.
In a further boost for Mohamed Haneef, Immigration Minister Chris
Evans said the Indian doctor was free to return to Australia under his
original visa.
Lawyers for Mohamed Haneef were...
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 The historic trial of one-time Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori for
two massacres and two kidnappings during his rule (1990-2000) started
Monday in Lima.
The court noted that the trial is "criminal, not political."
Fujimori, 69, who holds Peruvian and Japanese citizenship, seemed
calm as he sat before a three-judge...
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 Baseball superstar Barry Bonds, the all-time Major League home-run
king, pleaded not guilty to five counts of lying under oath about
alleged steroid use.
Bonds, 43, entered the plea in his first appearance in a federal
court in San Francisco since he was indicted last month on the perjury
charges.
Federal prosecutors allege...
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Harare - The charges against Zimbabwean ministerial appointee Roy Bennett, who was arrested last week as a new coalition government was being sworn in, have been changed for a third time, his lawyer said Tuesday.
The 52-year-old Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) politician now faces charges of possessing weapons for the purposes of...
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A South African appeal court on Monday opened the way for a case of corruption to be brought against Jacob Zuma, the controversial but popular leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and front-runner in the forthcoming presidential race.
The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein, the second highest court, upheld an...
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An Egyptian court on Tuesday issued barred the government from exporting gas to Israel, a security source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
The higher administrative court's ruling came after a number of Egyptian lawyers made a case against the government for exporting gas to Israel at a price below the international gas...
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An Egyptian court on Tuesday barred the government from exporting gas to Israel, a security source told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa.
The higher administrative court's ruling came after a number of Egyptian lawyers made a case against the government for exporting gas to Israel at a price below the international gas price.
Egypt...
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The civil rights group Human Rights Watch sharply criticised Wednesday the use of
special courts in the Sudan, saying they were a 'charade' and fell
short of 'even minimal fair trial standards.' In a statement,
HRW called attention to the special courts which were set up to combat
rebels, and which at the end of July sentenced 30...
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 The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court
officially called for an arrest warrant on Monday for Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir,
accusing him of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity executed
during the past five years of atrocities in the Darfur
region of his country.
The prosecutor’s chase of the...
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The six French aid workers sentenced to eight years' forced labour and
fined almost 9 million dollars for attempting to kidnap more than 100
African children could be flown out to France by Sunday, the Nouvel
Observateur magazine said Thursday.
Supporters of the L'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark) aid organization
meanwhile have criticized...
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 Protests erupted in the Sudanese capital Khartoum Friday, with
thousands of angry demonstrators calling for the death of a British
teacher who was convicted of blasphemy for allowing her students to
name a teddy bear Mohammed.
The protestors poured out of mosques following Friday prayers, some
carrying knives and clubs, just a day...
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 A British teacher has been charged by Sudanese authorities with
insulting religion and inciting hatred for allowing her pupils to name
a teddy bear Mohammed, the Foreign Office in London confirmed
Wednesday.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was "surprised and
disappointed" at the charges, while Foreign Secretary David...
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 Deutsche Telekom AG's mobile unit announced on Wednesday that customers would be able to buy the unlocked Apple iPhone, but for a price that is more than twice as expensive as the one with a one year contract that they offer.The company was selling the phone with a so-called SIM lock that does not allow users to switch the device to any...
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 Lawyers for the surviving members of legendary band The
Beatles are suing to stop distribution of unreleased recordings made during a
performance at the Star Club in Hamburg,
Germany. This
was the first time when Ringo Starr performed with the group in 1962. The
president of Fuego Entertainment, Hugo Cancio, planned to release...
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 I’ve had enough with this broad. I mean... Does she really
have to always be in the center of attention??? Can’t she just give up...? Well
you know...I mean, she does so many things just so people notice her, for what?
First the DUI high speed race down to Las Vegas with a police escort…maybe someone
should have told her about...
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Beijing - Chinese lawyers said Friday that they had filed a lawsuit with a Paris court in a last-minute bid to stop the auction of two bronze animal heads that were allegedly stolen from China by British and French troops 150 years ago.
"We handed the lawsuit to the Paris court just now," Xie Tongxiang, one of the...
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Around 40 people were taken into custody Wednesday in the latest wave of arrests connected to a shadowy nationalist gang that prosecutors claim was conspiring to overthrow Turkey's moderate Islamic government, Turkish media reported.
Those taken into custody on Wednesday included retired generals, former police officers, academics and...
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Leading international writers, scholars, lawyers and rights advocates on Tuesday urged Chinese President Hu Jintao to free the dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, who is believed to be facing subversion charges for organizing a charter for democratic reform in China.
More than 150 leading US and European-based intellectuals, including...
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Montazer al-Zaidi, the TV reporter who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush on Sunday, has not been tortured and has been well-treated during his detention, one of his lawyers said Thursday.
"Al-Zaidi is in good health and was not tortured during his detention," one of his lawyers told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news...
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The wife of jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia welcomed international support for the couple on Wednesday, as the European Parliament prepared to award its top human rights prize to him in absentia.
"It is not only for us, it is also for all Chinese human rights defenders," Zeng Jinyan told Deutsche Presse-Agentur...
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Chinese civil rights activist Liu Xiaobo is one of the best-known critics of China's communist power apparatus, a battle he has been waging for the past two decades.
Despite all the efforts by the state security organs to intimidate him, for the past two decades the author has over and again spoken out for political reforms,...
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A young female journalist who attempted to cover a protest by a group of Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis victims was sentenced to two years in prison Friday, legal sources confirmed.
Eine Khaing Oo, 21, was arrested on June 10 when she tried to cover a rare protest in front of the head office of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)...
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Indonesia's top court on Tuesday rejected a request by three death-row Bali bombers to have their executions carried out by a different method than firing squad, saying that the alternatives also were painful.
"The pain suffered by the death-convicted is a legal consequence linked to the execution," Chief Judge Muhammad...
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A political internet blogger who reported on protests during the Olympic torch relay through Vietnam in April was sentenced Wednesday to two and a half years in prison on charges of tax evasion.
Nguyen Van Hai, 55, widely known by his pen name Dieu Cay, was convicted of having failed to pay 10 years' worth of value-added tax on part...
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The family of a Pakistani scientist in US custody fears she may die before her next hearing on September 22 in New York if urgent medical attention is not provided.
Aafia Siddiqui, 36, a US-educated neuroscientist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was extradited from Afghanistan after she allegedly seized a rifle from...
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The just-released from jail elder son of former Bangladeshi prime minister Khaleda Zia is seeking a long-term visa to go to Britain for medical treatment, his lawyers said Monday.
Tarique Rahman's visa application, along with those of wife Zobaida and daughter Zaima, were being processed by immigration authorities, lawyer Rafiqul...
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Pakistani lawyers, backed by human rights activists and political workers, staged countrywide sit-ins Thursday to press the government to reinstate dozens of senior judges sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf.
The powerful legal community resumed protests three days after the 6-month-old ruling coalition collapsed on...
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Hundreds of thousands of protestors marched past a United Nations' observers office in India's Jammu and Kashmir state capital on Monday demanding international intervention to resolve the Kashmir issue.
Slogans against the Indian government and security forces and shouts of "azadi" - freedom - were heard as the the marchers...
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono warned Friday that terrorism remained a threat to the country despite various achievements in combating such attacks.
In a state of the nation address ahead the August 17 independence day, Yudhoyono said efforts to thwart and overcome transnational crime and terrorism have shown...
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Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday was charged in court with sodomizing a former male aide in a case the former deputy prime minister has slammed as politically motivated.
Anwar, who received a police summons Wednesday ordering his appearance in court, pleaded not guilty to the charge after arriving at the Kuala...
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Malaysian police on Wednesday served opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim with an order to appear in court, where he is likely to be charged with sodomy.
Anwar, who is currently out on bail after he was detained last month
for questioning over the sodomy allegation, said he was served with the
summons earlier Wednesday and is to...
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The creation of a sex-offenders register that
would enable employers in Hong Kong to check if employees have been
convicted of sex-related offences was proposed by a group of lawyers
Tuesday.
The scheme would initially cover jobs where workers are required to
deal with children or mentally incapacitated persons, including...
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The High Court in Bangladesh has upheld the
declaration of a public holiday on August 15 commemorating the killing
of the country's founding president, Sheikh Mujib ur Rahman, by rebel
troops, Justice Ministry officials said Monday. Mujib's
family members, including his wife and three sons, were also gunned
down by the soldiers...
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Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was
released on bail Thursday morning, one day after he was arrested on
sodomy allegations which he rejected as 'fabricated and slanderous.'
Anwar, who spent the night in the lock-up at the Kuala Lumpur police
station, was detained by some 20 balaklava-clad police officers on
Wednesday and...
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Thailand's Supreme Court barred
ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra from leaving the kingdom for China and
England at the end of last month, media reports said Thursday.
Thaksin, who has been charged with abuse of power for allowing his wife
to purchase a plot of Bangkok land at a government auction in 2003,
asked court permission to...
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 A former Kuwaiti detainee at the United
States prison camp at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, who was released from US custody in 2005, was involved in the attack
in Mosul on 29
April, when a suicide attack killed six people, including two police officers.
It targeted an Iraqi police patrol.
Pentagon officials said they knew the man had...
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 China has
detained 30 people, including six Buddhist monks for their roles in the violent
protests in Lhasa
on 14 March, Chinese authorities announced. One month after the incident, the
International Campaign for Tibet
said more than 160 people were detained from monasteries in the Tibetan capital
of Lhasa during
April.
Three...
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 A suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of policemen at an
anti-government rally Thursday in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore,
killing at least 21 officers and three civilians in the latest violence
to rock a nation teetering on the brink.
The death toll could rise, however, because at least 65 people were
wounded in...
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 A leading international human rights group said Wednesday that free and
fair elections would be impossible in Pakistan unless senior judges
deposed after President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency
last month were reinstated.
"A genuine election campaign is impossible when the media remains
muzzled, leaders of...
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 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday promulgated a decree
to end the emergency rule he imposed six weeks ago, but the move
received mixed reaction from opposition parties.
"The proclamation of emergency issued on the 3rd day of November
2007 stands revoked on, and with effect from, 15th day of December
2007,"...
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 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has signed an order to end the
country's state of emergency, to be lifted on Saturday midday. Hours
later he will address the nation, government officials said late
Friday.
"The President has promulgated some amendments in the constitution
like the one which says that all those senior...
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 Less than four weeks ahead of Pakistan's crucial parliamentary
elections, voters overwhelmingly want strongman President Pervez
Musharraf to resign and they support the country's main opposition
parties, a survey released Thursday said.
In the wake of his decision last month to declare a state of
emergency, suspend the...
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 Pakistan's government spokesman on Friday appealed to opposition
parties not to boycott crucial forthcoming parliamentary elections,
saying the government was ready to discuss their concerns about the
credibility of the polls.
Misar Memon, Information minister of President Pervez Musharraf's
caretaker government, said they were...
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 Hundreds of protesters led by opposition leader Nawaz Sharif marched
Thursday to the residence of Pakistan's deposed chief justice Iftikhar
Chaudhry, who has been under house arrest since the imposition of
emergency rule five weeks ago.
Chaudhry and about five dozen other senior judges were sacked after
President Pervez Musharraf...
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 Hours after being sworn in for a second five- year term, Pakistani
President Pervez Musharraf said Thursday he would not lift the current
state of emergency until December 16.
Despite "improvement in the general situation" and earlier
expectations that he would bow to pressure by the Bush administration
to end the...
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 Pakistan's former prime minister and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif
will return to Pakistan on Sunday from Saudi Arabia, as the country's
election commission ratified the disputed re-election of the President
Pervez Musharraf.
"Mr Sharif is expected to reach Lahore tomorrow (Sunday) at 16:00
local time (1100 GMT) from Saudi...
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 The Supreme Court of Pakistan Monday dismissed the main petitions
challenging President Pervez Musharraf's October 6 re-election, leaving
one final legal obstacle to his commencement of a further five-year
term.
Two petitions lodged by a retired judge and a senior member of the
Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of opposition leader...
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 Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf Saturday refused to lift
immediately the emergency rule as he met US Deputy Secretary of State
John Negroponte, officials said.
"The US diplomats expressed concern over the existing political
instability in Pakistan and asked President Musharraf to take certain
measures to calm down the...
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 Pakistan's interim Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro was sworn by
President General Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad Friday amid the
country's continuing politicial crisis.
The military leader administered the oath taken by Soomro, who will
steer the country to elections of new parliamentary assemblies in
January under the current...
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 Pakistan's opposition leader and ex-premier Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday
asked President Pervez Musharraf to resign and indicated that her party
might boycott forthcoming elections if held under the army general.
"I call on Musharraf to step down, to leave. This country belongs
to people, it must return to the people,"...
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 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Saturday marked her
release from house arrest by joining a protest rally against emergency
rule imposed by President Pervez Musharraf and demanding to see the top
judge he deposed to secure re-election.
"We do not accept the curbs on the media and we demand that the
government...
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 Parliamentary elections will be held in Pakistan in February, President
Pervez Musharraf said Thursday amid a growing outcry at his imposition
of emergency rule.
While the pledge was rejected by opposition leader Benazir Bhutto
as insufficient, Musharraf appeared to be slowly heeding domestic and
international calls on him to...
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 Top Bollywood action hero Sanjay Dutt was jailed for six years for illegally possessing firearms obtained through underworld gangsters connected with the 1993 terrorist bombings in Mumbai which killed 257 people. Dutt already served 18 months in jail following his arrest in 1993 and was expected to receive a more lenient sentence.Judge...
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 Madonna’s brother, Christopher Ciccone, is writing
a memoir about his sister. He has signed a deal with publishers Simon and
Scuster and will be working with Wendy Leigh, who wrote biographies of Liza
Minnelli, Grace Kelly and a provocative book about Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“Living with My Sister Madonna” will tell
the story of a...
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 The California Supreme Court unanimously decided that the prosecutor who helped in the making of “Alpha Dog” may remain on the case which became the subject of the movie. The case involved Jesse James Hollywood, who faces the death penalty for his role in the kidnapping and murder of a 15-year-old boy. Ronald Zonen, a deputy district...
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 Jeremiah "Terminator" LeRoy, aka male truck-stop hooker J.T. LeRoy, was a hoax created by Laura Albert. Film production company Antidote International Films won their suit against Albert, alleging the contract signed by LeRoy with them was null and void because he doesn't exist. The jury decided LeRoy was the vehicle of a...
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 The Pirate Bay Web site’s supporters started to get angry with all the trial that has been going on for four days in Sweden. The copyright infringement trial reached its fourth day on Thursday, while some other bad news struck the authorities.Supporters of the four men behind the Pirate Bay Web site had hacked the Web site of the...
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 Cathryn Elaine Harris Has filed a lawsuit in Dallas against
Blockbuster. The complaint refers to the transmission of the woman’s personal
information to Facebook through Blockbuster’s Beacon marketing program.
Harris claims that Facebook got information about her movie
rentals and buying habits from Blockbuster, which used a...
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 After a lengthy hearing in San Francisco Friday, United States District Judge Jeffrey S. White rescinded a controversial order that disabled DNS access to whistleblower website Wikileaks.org. At the hearing, John Shipton, “a citizen of Australia currently residing in Kenya,” has sent in both hired lawyers and pro bono lawyers, courtesy...
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 The apparent owner of the anonymous whistleblower website Wikileaks has apparently came forward to defend his project. John Shipton, “a citizen of Australia currently residing in Kenya,” has sent in both hired lawyers and pro bono lawyers, courtesy of various rights groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil...
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 A substitute teacher accused of exposing children in her class to pornographic materials has obtained a new trial, in the light of new evidence.Julie Amero, a substitute English teacher, faced 40 years in jail for unwillingly and unknowingly exposing kids in her class to pornographic materials. She allegedly left the classroom to go to...
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A culture of bribery and impunity flourished at German corporate giant Siemens AG over the past decade despite repeated warnings from outside and inside the firm, according to US court documents.
The details were released Monday as Siemens pleaded guilty in US District Court in Washington to a massive global corruption scandal...
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Four Marines were arrested after they had told investigators they were the ones who robbed and killed a fellow Marine and his wife last month. The four broke into the couple’s home, sexually assaulted the woman and searched for valuable objects. They were charged on Wednesday with the execution-style slayings of Sgt. Jan Pietrzak, 24,...
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Rev. Al Sharpton joined Michael Mineo’s side in the scandal made public this week. Five police officers attacked Mineo and sodomized him with a walkie-talkie inside a subway station in Brooklyn. Still, the police couldn’t do anything because the officers deny the fact and some witnesses said that they had heard Mineo yelling for help,...
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 China Arnold, 28, killed her baby girl of only a month by burning her to death inside a microwave oven. The jury failed to reach a consensus when giving her the death penalty so they finally decided to sentence her to life in prison without parole. The prosecutors stated that the woman had voluntarily put the little baby in the...
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 A judge moved a hearing for a condemned inmate because the former hearing was scheduled to be long after his execution. On Thursday, the judge stated that the lawyers of the inmate have to fight about the sentence while he is still alive. The inmate’s lawyers say that the execution sentence was wrong because the judge was having an...
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Michelle Obama stole the limelight and apparent affection of Democratic delegates Monday night, describing husband Barack Obama as a persistent suitor in their courting days who would carry the same kind of determination into the White House.
The couple provided a rare and at times humourous glimpse into their private lives in one of...
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On Tuesday morning, John “Junior” Gotti was arrested by the FBI on federal conspiracy charges, linking him to the murder of three men in New York, and possessing and trafficking cocaine, Bloomberg reported. 44-year-old Mr. Gotti, son of late Gambino crime family boss John J. Gotti, was ordered seized by a magistrate judge in Manhattan...
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A conservative US senator on Tuesday alleged that Chinese authorities plan to spy on foreign guests staying in hotels during the Olympics next month in Beijing.
Senator Sam Brownback, a Republican from Kansas, said that lawyers representing international hotel chains have provided his office with documents ordering hotels to install...
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 On Sunday morning, a man opened fire in a church in Knoxville, Tennessee, killing 2 persons and injuring 7 others, Reuters reported. The man entered the church at 10.18 a.m. and started shooting while 25 children were performing the play “Annie.” In line with WATE-TV, none of the kids got hurt. They ran away and three of them were found...
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Former US government spokesman and Fox News
commentator Tony Snow has died at the age 53 from colon cancer, US
media reported Saturday. Snow served as Bush's third press secretary, from April 2006 to September 2007 following Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan.
Used to earning more as a television commentator Snow took a pay cut...
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Kent Jermaine Jackson was executed by lethal
injection on Thursday at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt,
Virginia. Jackson, 26, was convicted for the brutal killing of an elderly widow
who lived in his apartment building.
He died at 9:18 p.m. in Greensville Correctional
Center, after eight years in prison. Both...
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Neil Entwistle, 29, was found guilty of the murder of his
wife and 9-month-old daughter on Wednesday.
Although he had been telling the same story for more than 2
years, the jury decided that his defense was not sufficiently strong to protect
him from being convicted.
According to Entwistle’s narration of the facts...
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Former civil rights lawyer Revius Ortique Jr., who became the first black
justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court, died Sunday. He was 84.
It appears that Ortique died in Baton
Rouge from complications with a stroke he suffered
June 14, current Justice Kitty Kimball told the Associated Press.
“I think he was one of the finest...
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A military judge at Camp Pendleton dismissed on Tuesday the case against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, the highest-ranking marine charged in the deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq.
Col. Steven Folsom, the judge, made his ruling in response to a motion from defense attorneys charging that undue influence was exercised on the convening...
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 Virginia Governor Tim Kaine prevented
Monday the execution of a convicted triple murderer for the third time and
ordered the commutation of his death sentence, a day before the scheduled
execution. He said that Percy Levar Walton is so profoundly mentally ill and
impaired that he did not understand that he was about to die.
In...
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The trial of the five terrorists who are believed to be behind the
November 11 attacks has not yet been set to start at Camp Justice.
However, the suspects appeared in front of a war crime tribunal for the first
time on Thursday.
The new courtroom where the suspects will be judged is surrounded by
razor wire fences.
First came...
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The alleged key suspect behind the attacks upon U.S. from 11 September 2001 will stay before the
military tribunal in Guantanamo
Bay.
The man who is considered al-Qaeda’s number three has refused to be
defended by lawyers. He is actually trying to convince the court to sentence
him to death, for he wants to become a martyr in the...
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 The Pentagon says Binayam Mohamed, an
Ethiopian national, is accused of supporting terrorism and conspiracy to commit
terrorist attacks in the United
States. He allegedly planned with al-Qaeda to
use a radioactive “dirty bomb.”
His lawyers say the case is based on
evidence obtained through torture while he was in...
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 Dina Matos McGreevey, the wife of former Gov. Jim McGreevey
tried to convince a judge that she is entitled to alimony, saying she is deeply
in debt and about to lose her $81,000-a-year job at Columbus Hospital
in Newark. She
said that her mortgage, legal bills and a $100,000 loan from a friend have left
her deeply in debt.
The...
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 Dina Matos McGreevey, the wife of former Gov. Jim McGreevey tried to convince a judge that she was entitled to alimony, saying she was deeply in debt and about to lose her $81,000-a-year job at Columbus Hospital in Newark. She said that her mortgage, legal bills and a $100,000 loan from a friend had left her deeply in debt.The two...
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Washington, May 27 – Former Illinois
Governor George Ryan and a co-defendant Larry Warner lost their chance to get
out of prison, by losing a U.S. Supreme Court appeal. The main arguments
brought in front of the justice were based on the fact that their constitutional
rights had been violated when the panel of judges dismissed two...
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The trial of R. Kelly began with three days of explosive
testimony. Facing up 15 years behind bars if convicted, the R&B star is charged
with 14 counts of child pornography.
Prosecutor Shauna Boliker said Kelly “created, staged, produced and starred” in
the infamous video sex tape. Meanwhile, defense...
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 This case is the second US execution since
the Supreme Court lifted a moratorium on death penalty last month. Convicted
murderer Earl Wesley Berry was executed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary
at Parchman, state officials said. The man was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m.
local time at Parchman prison, said Tara Booth, spokeswoman...
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 A military judge has postponed the trial of Osama bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, saying the Supreme Court should first rule on the rights of inmates to contest their detention and to see if that ruling affects the detainees’ cases. The Supreme Court is expected to rule by 30 June.Hamdan was to be the first prisoner tried...
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 Five men, accused of conspiring to kill thousands of people
by financing, directing and organizing the 9/11 suicide missions, face death
penalty charges at the US
detention facility at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba. A
Pentagon official has formally approved death penalty charges against them for
allegedly conspiring in the September 11...
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 A US military judge has disqualified the Pentagon’s top legal adviser in the Office of Military Commissions, one of the key figures in Guantanamo war crimes tribunals, The New York Times reported.Navy Capt. Keith Allred ruled that Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann of the Air Force Reserve was too closely allied with the prosecution. He is...
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 The FBI raided the office of U.S. Special Counsel Scott
Bloch in an investigation of whether he obstructed justice by having his computer
files erased, the Associated Press reports.
According to FBI officials, computers and documents were
seized from Scott Bloch’s office during the raid Tuesday morning. They also
mentioned...
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 Emad al-Janabi sues US military contractors, accusing them
of torture, war crimes and civil conspiracy in a complaint filed in federal
court in Los Angeles. The former detainee in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq claims the employees of CACI
International Inc. and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc, two companies which
provided services to the...
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 According to the settlement proposed by officials and accepted by most families involved in the Virginia Tech tragedy, each family will receive $100,000, as well as the chance to meet and discuss with the governor and the university’s officials about the shootings.Each family will also receive medical and counseling expenses, according...
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 “How many other people’s salaries have been frozen for 10
years?” asked Bernard W. Nussbaum, the lawyer of the state’s chief judge,
Judith S. Kaye, while standing on the steps outside State Supreme Court in Manhattan, according to
the New York Times. Bernard W. Nussbaum, Kaye’s lawyer and a former counsel to
the Clinton White House...
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A federal appeals court released Donald Siegelman, former
governor of Alabama
from prison, where he had spent nine months of a seven year sentence. He was
convicted on six corruption counts and one count of obstruction of justice. His
appeal was based on the fact that he was politically prosecuted.
The federal prosecutors have...
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 Several contract workers and employees viewed the passport
files of all three presidential candidates, the State Department said Friday. Officials
are investigating the episodes but they claim the actions were not politically
motivated and the workers were probably guided by “imprudent curiosity.” Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice...
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 The U.S.
capital’s tough gun control law was debated yesterday by lawyers who analyzed
the meaning of the “right to bear arms”, which is guaranteed by the Second
Amendment to the US Constitution. A majority of justices from the Supreme Court
seem to accept an interpretation of the Second Amendment that defends the...
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 New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has made official on Wednesday his intention to retire from the state’s top office after his alleged involvement as a client in a high-priced prostitution ring. The lawyer said that he doesn’t want to allow his "private failings to disrupt the public's work.""I am deeply sorry that I did not...
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 USA Today reporter Toni Locy has been found in contempt of court by U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton in Washington for refusing to disclose her sources in the anthrax attacks of 2001. Specifically, a federal judge late Friday night ordered the fines to coerce Locy to identify sources who named former Army scientist Steven Hatfill as...
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 Dr. Cyril H. Wecht, a nationally renowned forensic
pathologist, who acted as a consultant in numerous high-profile cases, is
set to appear in front of a Pittsburgh federal court.
Wecht faces 41 criminal charges and could spend the rest of
his life behind bars if he proves to be guilty.
Wecht, who resigned as Allegheny County...
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 President George W Bush on Friday rejected a law that would make it
easier for victims of Saddam Hussein's former regime to sue Iraq for
compensation, holding up a massive, overdue spending bill for the US
military.
Bush's veto announcement followed Iraqi government objections that
the provisions, buried in a 2008 defence budget...
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 The two leaders of the US panel that investigated the 2001 terrorist
attacks say that it appeared the CIA had intentionally withheld tapes
of alleged torture of terrorism suspects to impede their work,
according to a story Saturday in the New York Times.
The comments to the newspaper by the two chairmen, Lee Hamilton and
Thomas...
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 The Central Intelligence Agency revealed Friday that in 2005 it
destroyed video tapes of officers subjecting two al- Qaeda terrorist
suspects to harsh interrogation techniques.
CIA chief Michael Hayden told President George W Bush about the
destruction of the tapes Thursday and the White House was assisting the
spy agency in an...
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 Lawyers for prisoners in the war on terrorism appeared before the US
Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking the right for their clients to
challenge their detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the federal court
system.
The cases, Boumediene versus Bush and al-Odah versus the United
States, marked the third time in as many years...
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 It seems incredibly complicated to be an astronaut in love.
The three-cornered NASA love story has reached a new stage: apologies. More specific, Lisa Nowak expressed her regret
about what she has done to her romantic rival, Colleen Shipman. Even more
specific, they were in court, Nowak under charges of attempted kidnapping,...
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 After months of investigations and deliberations a US court sentenced Tuesday former chief of staff Lewis Libby to 30 months in prison for obstruction of justice, perjury and false statements. The former assistant to US Vice President Dick Cheney for national security affairs received beside the heavy chastisement a fine of 250,000...
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 Guantanamo’s youngest prisoner has been cleared of murder and terrorism charges by a military judge that considered the Canadian’s case insoluble by the military commission, officials from the Pentagon reported on Monday. Omar Ahmed Khadr, by his full name, is a Canadian citizen that was detained in Afghanistan on July 27, 2002 by US...
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 On Monday, Silicon Valley
electric sports car-maker, Tesla Motors sued a competing company over allegations
of design idea and trade secret theft.
The story began last year when Tesla hired a Danish
designer, Henrik Fisker, to work on the body design of a new four-seat sedan,
called White Star. This is where things get hot, as the...
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Lorene F. Schaefer, who was placed on paid administrative leave earlier this month from her job as GE Transportation's general counsel, filed a gender discrimination lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport on Thursday.Schaefer alleges GE pays female lawyers and women in entry-level executive jobs less than men and fails to promote...
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 The hype around Microsoft’s recent claims that Linux and, generally speaking, the open source community have infringed Redmond-crafted IP (intellectual property) is not going to calm down for a long time.It’s actually what was bound to happen: when Microsoft signed that pesky interoperability agreement last November with Novell, it...
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 Microsoft, through the voice of one of its lawyers, has claimed that the open source community and particularly the Linux OS and the OpenOffice software are violating no less than 235 Microsoft patents.During an interview with Fortune magazine, Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, and Horacio Gutierrez, the company's vice president...
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Ehud Olmert's lawyers Friday began a second
day of cross-examining a key state witness, whose allegations that
Olmert accepted cash-stuffed envelopes from him are threatening the
Israeli premier's political future. The lawyers managed to
expose some inaccurate details in Morris Talansky's account on the
first day of the crucial...
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His political future becoming increasingly
uncertain, Ehud Olmert was probed for a third time Friday on suspicions
that he illegally accepted at least tens of thousands of US dollars in
cash from an American fundraiser. Police questioned Olmert
for more than two hours at his Jerusalem residence Friday morning,
Police Spokesman...
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 According to local officials, police officers armed with teargas, shields and rubber clubs battled protesting lawyers in Pakistan's major cities on Monday. The number of opposition politicians, attorneys and human rights activists arrested in a nationwide sweep climbed into the thousands.The most serious clash took place in the eastern...
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 Dozens of people were injured on Monday when riot police used tear gas and baton-charged hundreds of lawyers who were holding protest rallies in several Pakistani cities against the weekend proclamation of a state of emergency by President Pervez Musharraf.
"The police harshly beat us up with the batons and more than a dozen...
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 According to the Pakistani election committee, a new rule
implemented on Monday will allow Gen. Pervez Musharraf to remain army
chief even as he seeks another term as president.
The committee is made up of members appointed by Musharaf
himself, but says that the updated rules were not intended to help the
president in any way;...
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 The capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh is stormed by violent clashes for the past days, as three more dead people were reported Sunday. Thousands of troops were deployed in the region, but the violent outbreaks continued with protesters blocking the roads and attacking the police forces, media in the region reported. The security...
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London - A British resident released from the US detention centre of Guantanamo Bay is due to return to Britain later Monday, his family and lawyers said.
Binyam Mohamed, a 30-year-old Ethiopian national, was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and has been held at Guantanamo since 2004.
He has alleged torture during "rendition"...
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Hamburg - In a case alleged by prosecutors to have been an "honour killing," an Afghan-born man was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for stabbing to death his own sister.
Morsal O, aged 16, was knifed to death on May 15, 2008, a day after she approached welfare officials in the northern German city Hamburg for...
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A court in Spain's Basque region on Monday dropped charges against regional Prime Minister Juan Jose Ibarretxe, who had gone on an unprecedented trial for meeting with the illegal separatist party Batasuna in 2006.
Batasuna is regarded as the political wing of the militant Basque separatist group ETA.
The Superior Tribunal of...
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A court in Spain's Basque region on Monday dropped charges against regional Prime Minister Juan Jose Ibarretxe, who had gone on an unprecedented trial for meeting with the illegal separatist party Batasuna in 2006.
Batasuna is regarded as the political wing of the militant Basque separatist group ETA.
The court also dropped charges...
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The trial of the prime minister of Spain's semi-autonomous Basque region began Thursday on charges of having met with the illegal Batasuna party which is regarded as the political wing of the militant separatist group ETA.
Juan Jose Ibarretxe was the first Basque prime minister to be tried on criminal charges.
Ibarretxe arrived in...
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A Spanish court has ordered a school to pay 30,000 euros (40,500 dollars) in damages to the family of a pupil who was bullied by his fellows, the highest such damages ever awarded in Spain, the victim's father and lawyers said Wednesday.
Part of the evidence was based on a video showing pupils mocking and hitting their 10-year-old...
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A Russian man described as a major international arms dealer told a Thai court Monday that he was a harmless businessman who posed no threat to anyone.
The court heard testimony that Viktor Bout, the model for Nicolas Cage's arms dealer in the 2005 film Lord of War, was caught in a sting in Thailand set up by US undercover agents...
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Croatia's efforts to deal with corruption in prisons suffered a hard blow Wednesday after a local daily published a price list of "services" provided in jails.
Croatian daily Slobodna Dalmacija reported, quoting "prison sources" that for a certain price, prisoners in Croatian jails can move to a minimal security...
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An Afghan-born youth declined to testify Tuesday at his trial for the murder of his own sister in Germany.
The May 15 stabbing death of Morsal O, 16, in Hamburg attracted enormous attention at a time when Germans were concerned at a rash of "honour killings" by immigrants from archaic central Asian societies.
The term...
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US pop queen Madonna was probably still asleep in Philadelphia early Friday after entertaining fans with her raunchy Sticky & Sweet tour the night before when a district judge in London granted the decree confirming that her eight-year marriage with Guy Ritchie was over.
The sober proceedings, listed as Ciccione M L v Ritchie G S...
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US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie ended their eight-year marriage in a low-key "quickie" divorce in London Friday following a private settlement.
The singer, 50, and Ritchie, 40, did not attend the hearing before the High Court's family division. It lasted just a few minutes and was heard...
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US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie were granted a "quickie" divorce after nearly eight years of marriage at the High Court in London Friday.
The singer, 50, and Ritchie, 40, did not attend the hearing before the court's family division which lasted just a few minutes.
High-profile...
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Spanish judicial experts expect no major new investigations into alleged human rights abuses during the 1936-39 civil war and General Francisco Franco's ensuing 36-year dictatorship, the daily El Pais said Thursday.
High-profile judge Baltasar Garzon's decision to drop the first such inquiry on Tuesday was described as a big blow by...
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A Russian court ruled Wednesday to bar the media and public from the trial of three men charged with the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
The judge at the Moscow's Military Court reversed his decision to make the trial open to the public after the jury refused to hear the case in front of the press.
"This...
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A Russian military court will allow public and media access to the trial of three men charged over the murder investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, it ruled in a crucial first hearing Monday.
Police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov and two Chechen brothers, Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, stand accused of plotting the murder of...
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The alleged kingpin of the main Russian organized-crime family in Germany's Bavaria state went on trial Friday.
Lawyers for the alleged mobsters showered the court with motions to stop the trial. Security at the Munich courthouse was strict.
The defendant, 39, was indicted with running a criminal organization.
Two alleged mafia...
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An Australian man of German extraction wanted in Germany on charges of denying the mass killing of Jews in the Holocaust has been freed on bail by a court in London following extradition proceedings.
Westminster Magistrate's Court confirmed Thursday that a judge had thrown out an extradition bid from Germany for 64-year-old Gerald...
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Anti-globalization demonstrators invaded the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Monday, chanting, waving banners and scattering leaflets inside Germany's principal financial marketplace.
"We are criticizing the dominance of financial markets," said Stephan Schilling, a member of the Attac Network coordinating circle, in Frankfurt...
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Retail shops across Greece closed down for several hours on Wednesday to protest the conservative government's reform policies which they say will force their businesses to go bankrupt.
From the Greek capital Athens and the northern port city of Thessaloniki to hundreds of islands in the Aegean, small and medium clothing and food...
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It is the job of David Smith to keep on top of his box of index cards marked "serious buyers."
But as tight loans and tumbling prices keep a stranglehold on Britain's once buoyant property market, hardly any of his clients bother to ring back.
Estate agents like Smith are nostalgic about the days of the property boom when...
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A US judge has ordered aircraft maker Boeing to hand over all available technical information on the MD-82 jetliner that crashed in Madrid on August 20, killing 154 people, Spanish press reports said Tuesday.
A US law firm has filed a complaint against Boeing and its subsidiary McDonnell Douglas in the name of 18 families that lost...
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As Germany sought to calm the public with a "decisive" pledge about savings property lender Hypo Real Estate (HRE) came under pressure Monday from other banks and Berlin to sack its chief executive after HRE needed a vast bail-out.
Questions about the German government assurance of an estimated 1 trillion euros (1.4 trillion...
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Turkish internet users have been blocked via a court order from accessing the site of prominent British biologist Richard Dawkins after complaints from lawyers for Islamic creationist author Adnan Oktar, the website of Turkish television station NTV reported on Wednesday.
A court in Istanbul ordered that Turk Telekom block access to...
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The Dutch government cannot be held responsible for the failure of Dutch United Nations troops to protect the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre committed by Bosnian Serb forces, a court ruled in The Hague Wednesday.
The Mothers of Srebrenica, relatives of the 8,000 men and boys killed while the enclave was under the formal...
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Lawyers of a Serb wanted by United States for a near-fatal beating of a fellow student baulked at a plea offer by US prosecutors, describing it as "arrogance," the Vecernje Novosti daily said Wednesday.
Miladin Kovacevic, 21, a student and basketball player, was offered to enter a guilty plea and receive a 12-year sentence...
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Serbian authorities Tuesday said a laptop was found which may have belonged to Radovan Karadzic, a former Bosnian Serb leader on a genocide trial at the United Nations tribunal.
Karadzic was arrested in late July in Belgrade and extradited to the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
He...
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A British computer hacker accused of breaking
into top secret US defence and aerospace systems Wednesday lost his
appeal against extradition to the US where he could face a life
sentence if convicted of sabotaging vital defence systems.
Gary McKinnon, a 42-year-old computer and UFO enthusiast from Glasgow,
Scotland, has been...
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 Britain's top police chiefs warned against Princess Diana going on a
Mediterranean yachting holiday with Harrod's heir Dodi al-Fayed which
ended with both being killed in a car crash in Paris at the end of
August 1997, the inquest into their deaths was told in London Tuesday.
Evidence presented to the inquest showed that Paul...
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 A Paris court will issue a decision Friday on a demand by the ex-wife
of President Nicolas Sarkozy to stop publication of a book in which she
is quoted as calling him a philanderer, stingy and unworthy of being
president, French radio reported Thursday.
The book, titled simply Cecilia, was written by journalist Anna
Biton, who...
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 Italian Transport Minister Alessandro Bianchi summoned Wednesday unions
representing striking truck drivers for talks as the stoppage continued
despite a government order declaring it unlawful.
Discussions between Bianchi and union representatives who have
vowed to continue the strike through Friday was scheduled for 1330 GMT
in...
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Britain's "back from the dead" canoeist John Darwin and his wife, now
both in custody for faking his death for suspected insurance fraud, are
longing to be reunited for their upcoming wedding anniversary, their
lawyers said Tuesday.
However, their wish looked far from being fulfilled as Anne Darwin,
55, was "tearful...
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In a further twist Tuesday to the sex murder of a British woman in
Perugia, Italy, Italian authorities released an initial suspect in the
case just hours after another man allegedly linked to the killing was
arrested in Germany.
Lumumba "Patrick" Diya, 38, who was arrested on November 6, left a
Perugia prison on Tuesday...
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An Italian magistrate on Friday remanded in custody a US student, her
Italian boyfriend and a Congolese nightclub owner in connection with
the murder of a British student, news reports said.
The semi-naked body of Meredith Kercher, 21, was found on November
1 with a stab wound in the neck inside a flat she shared with...
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 Liberia’s former leader Charles G Taylor appeared for the first time in front of The Hague court on Tuesday, after two boycotts.Taylor refused to attend the first two sessions and face charges of war crimes because he was afraid of an inequitable trial and his lawyers need more time to prepare the defence.The former president is accused...
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 Former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor defied once more the International Criminal Court and failed to appear in front of it on Monday.Taylor is accused of no more than 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity following his actions during the Sierra Leone civil war between 1991-2002, when he allegedly aided...
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Strasbourg was the meeting place for approximately 15,000 Kurds, as they protested against the jailing of the former leader of the Kurdish militant group Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan. Thousands of Kurds gathered in the French city of Strasbourg to support the former PKK leader and ask for a fair medical examination. To...
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 R&B singer Chris Brown has been charged with two felonies counts of assault and making a criminal threat following the "brutal argument" he had with girlfriend Rihanna on February 8, which left the singer with shocking facial injuries.Just hours after Brown was formally charged, one of the Barbados-born pop star's relatives...
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 Madonna and Guy Ritchie have reportedly decided to break up after a marriage of seven years. The opinions about the reasons they had are divided between lots of sources. Some say that Guy has had enough of her flirting with some young artists, like Timberlake or Stuart Price and he just couldn’t bear to be “second...
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 Seventy years after Superman’s creator Jerome Siegel gave up
his rights to the character he created with Joseph Shuster to Detective Comics for
$130, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Time Warner is no longer the sole
proprietor of Superman. Siegel’s heirs are entitled to a share of the domestic
copyright, the New York Times...
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 The Jackson Family auction at Las Vegas’ Hard Rock Hotel and Casino fetched $500,000 over the first of its two-day span. The auction features the largest Jackson family memorabilia auctions ever, including hundreds of objects. The auction concludes today.The collection includes rhinestone-studded costumes, shoes, accessories, documents...
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 Las Vegas’ Hard Rock Hotel and Casino will host one of the largest Jackson family memorabilia auctions ever, including hundreds of objects.
The collection includes rhinestone-studded costumes, shoes, accessories, documents and others - The items are expected to fetch millions of dollars from bidders from around the globe...
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 A Chicago law firm went on a creative bent with a billboard proclaiming, “Life is short. Get a divorce,” which city officials were quick to take down.
Lawyers Corri Fetman’s and Kelly Garland found an interesting way to attract potential clients: a sexy image and a cynical (yet truthful) message. The billboard showed...
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 In just one month, octuplets mom Nadya Suleman lost yet another publicist, who officially resigned on Friday night. "It just got to be too much," Victor Munoz told Usmagazine.com. "Not to sound arrogant, but those people depended on me for everything," he explained. "You have no idea what I’ve had to do for...
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 Blake Fielder-Civil was arrested last year because he had attacked a pub’s landlord in 2006. After the incident, Amy Winehouse’s husband also tried to cover up his misdeed but he was finally caught red handed by the police. Fielder-Civil, also a former video assistant, was released on Wednesday.He and singer Amy Winehouse got married in...
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 A court commissioner extended Britney Spears’ father arrangement to control her personal and financial life beyond 2008. Jamie Spears and Britney’s attorney contract control was set to expire on December 31. But now, their control in her professional career is indefinite.A court attorney stated that the 26-year-old singer didn’t oppose...
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 "I'm going to ask you to make another attempt to resolve whatever differences you have," Judge James Steele from Los Angeles County Superior Court told the jurors on Monday. Britney Spears’ driving-without-a-license trial still goes on as the jurors couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict. They began deliberating on Friday, they...
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 Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s divorce has become really ugly in only a few days. It seems that Ritchie has been using a very bad language to describe his wife. Madonna’s lawyers have already made a case that her husband insulted her saying that she “looked like a granny” next to her back-up dancers. He also said that she is “past it” now...
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 Singer Britney Spears and dancer and rap singer Kevin Federline have finally agreed their child custody settlement. Under the terms of the deal approved by Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon, the pop singer will pay $20,000 (10,000 pounds) a month in child support to ex-husband Kevin Federline for the care of their two children....
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 Brad Pitt is threatening legal action
against anyone who will publish recent photographs that were taken by the
paparazzi of the actor and his family at their residence.
According to a letter published by the U.S.
Web site The Smoking Gun, Pitt’s lawyers said that the pictures were “surreptitiously”
taken by paparazzi who used a...
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Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook started their divorce trial
on Thursday, July 3, because of the affair Cook had had with Diana Bianchi, 18,
some two years ago and his other so-called affairs on porn web sites. After
several days of public arguing, the two try to settle down their custody
dispute.
The couple and their lawyers,...
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 Wesley Snipes is free to travel for work while
he waits to go to court for an appeal on his conviction on tax evasion charges.
In February the famous actor was found guilty on three misdemeanour charges for
failing to file tax returns, but he was acquitted on some more
serious charges of conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue...
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 The woman whose moves are watched and reported on and who receives such a great attention from young male readers may have a mysterious sister, younger than her. A woman named Kristi Horn says she had a relationship with Lindsay Lohan’s father, Michael, 12 years ago. The fruit of their love affair is a child who is now 13 years old.“I...
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 A Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner gave Britney Spears’ conservators permission on Tuesday to sell the singer’s Studio City area home, in Beverly Hills.
Spears bought her current residence in December 2007 for almost $7 million, according to the tax assessor. The Mediterranean-style villa has five bedrooms, six...
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 R&B singer R.Kelly left the Cook County Criminal Court Building after a jury declared him not guilty on all 14 counts of child pornography. It took more than six years of pretrial delays for prosecutors to get the 41-year-old Grammy-Award winning R&B singer into court on charges of child pornography. R.Kelly had been charged with...
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 The jury in R. Kelly’s long-delayed child pornography trial has to decide
whether the R&B singer is guilty or not of videotaping himself having sex
with an underage girl, the Associated Press reports.
Jurors started deliberating Thursday afternoon and continued for three
hours. They were told to return Friday morning.
Kelly...
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 Two days after a judge denied Nick Bollea’s
attorneys’ request to adjust the conditions of his confinement because being in
solitary is allegedly causing him “unbearable anxiety,” Hulk Hogan’s son was
moved into a communal cell with three other juvenile inmates.
Hogan initially was segregated because he
is a minor. He was...
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 Hulk Hogan’s son, Nick Bollea, who is
serving an 8 months sentence for felony reckless driving, will continue to stay
in solitary confinement. A judge denied Nick Bollea’s attorneys’ request to adjust
the conditions of his confinement, because being in solitary is allegedly
causing him “unbearable anxiety.” They say he is spending 16...
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 Hip-hop pioneer Slick Rick, who spent more than five years in prison on an attempted murder conviction and weapon charges, and was facing deportation to his native Briton years after rehabilitating his life, was given a full pardon Friday by New York Governor David Patterson. According to The New York Times, Governor Patterson delivered...
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 Actor Wesley Snipes has been granted bail while he appeals
against his conviction for tax offences, BBC News reports. The 45-year-old Blade
star was sentenced in April to three years in prison, the maximum penalty, for
failing to file income tax returns between 1999 and 2001.
A U.S.
judge granted Snipes’ request for bail saying...
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 R&B star, R. Kelly, 41, was charged
with child pornography six years ago, but the trial has been delayed for this
period. Tuesday, the Grammy-winning R&B artist stood in front of the prosecutors
at the Cook County Criminal Court, where they played the 26-minute sex tape at
a tiny monitor showing what authorities claim is the...
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 Anthony Pellicano was convicted on Thursday on federal
racketeering and wiretapping charges. Hollywood private eye was
convicted on 76 counts against him. Pellicano, 64, was found guilty of wiretapping
Sylvester Stallone and having a co-defendant run the names of comedians Garry
Shandling and Kevin Nealon through law enforcement...
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 French cosmetics firm Lancome had sued actress Uma Thurman over the use of her name and face in advertising campaigns. The “Kill Bill” star claimed the company used her name on Canadian billboards and Asian Web sites after the contract expired and that she is entitled to $1 million as a result.“Celebrities will now be careful about doing...
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 It has finally arrived! What? Well, the day of R. Kelly’s
trial which was long-delayed until finally this Friday. The Grammy-winning
R&B was charged with child pornography six years ago. The trial has been
delayed for this period and afterwards was postponed again by the attorneys
Wednesday. Judge Vincent Gaughan could rule on...
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 We learned that Monday the Illinois Supreme Court said “No”
to the Media’s request to be helped to access transcripts of secret hearings
and some sealed documents in the R&B singer’s case of child pornography. The
petition was filed last week by The Chicago Tribune, Sun-Times, The Associated
Press and Chicago Public Radio station...
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“Blade” actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in
prison Thursday for failing to file tax returns, the maximum penalty, the
Associated Press reports.
The actor wrote to the government $5 million in check,
highlighted his clean criminal record and called on famous friends in order to
convince the judge that he...
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 Actor Wesley Snipes is on the way of finding out his
sentence on Thursday for three misdemeanor tax convictions. He was accused of
failing to file taxes for three years 1999, 2000 and 2001, to which he owes the
government $2.7 million in back taxes. The action star was found guilty in
February. Furthermore, Snipes was acquitted in...
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 Pop queen Madonna asked a Malawian court to postpone a
hearing to finalize her adoption of a boy from the southern African nation. A
court official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the final
hearing was scheduled for 15 May, “unless her lawyers ask for another date.”
The 49-year-old singer requested the High...
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 A Los Angeles
judge extended a restraining order against Britney Spears’ former manager Sam
Lufti until July 31, under an agreement between lawyers for both sides, BBC
News reports. The restraining order was originally put in place in February.
According to Britney Spears’ attorney, Vivian Thoreen,
extending the order was “in...
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 Federal U.S.
prosecutors say actor Wesley Snipes should serve a maximum three-year prison
term and pay $5 million for failing to file his income taxes. It appears they
want to make an example of Snipes, after years of “brazen defiance” of tax laws
aimed and “cheating the government of $41 million”, according to U.S....
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 Michael Ovitz, former top agent and later president of the
Walt Disney Company, denied at the trial that he had any role in threatening
Anita Bush, journalist of the Los Angeles Times and Bernard Weinraub of the New
York Times. As an entertainment reporter, Anita Bush published articles
containing private information about Ovitz and...
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 Joe Francis, founder of “Girls Gone Wild” is going to release
DVDs featuring Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the New York
call girl, who was involved in the Eliot Spitzer scandal that led to his dismissal
from the New York’s
governor function. The DVDs are going to be part of a new series called “Hooker
Gone Wild.”
The first “Hooker...
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 Britney Spears will very soon receive the bill from her ex
hubby’s attorney and the latter should receive a check from the singer.
A court commissioner ruled that Britney Spears pay her
former husband, Kevin Federline $375,000, the equivalent of the legal fees he
owes to his attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan. It is still a good turn,...
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 Kevin Federline might have to come up with some new idea to
get money from his former wife, Britney Spears.
Attorney Stacy Phillips, who took over the pop artist’s
case, argued in court on Monday against Federline’s request that Spears pay the
legal fees for his lawyers. She objected to paying almost half million dollars
for...
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 Jeffrey Borer, the owner of XtraJet, a celebrity jet
service, was ordered to pay Michael
Jackson’s lawyer Mark Geragos at least $10 million, if not up to $18 million,
depending of how the ruling is interpreted, because of conspiracy against the
pop singer and his lawyers. Geragos’ associate, Pat Harris must also be paid
between...
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 Comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s jokes are credited to be funny
only in his shows. When he is a guest in somebody else’s show, he is believed
to be serious.
This is what his attorneys are trying to argue, in an attempt
to dismiss a lawsuit of defamation and copyright infringement filed against the
comedian and his wife. The suit is...
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 Lindsay Lohan can breathe relieved as she got rid of a legal
nuisance. The starlet succeeded in settling a lawsuit stemming from a traffic
collision that took place two and a half years ago.
Los Angeles-based Raymundo Ortega filed a lawsuit against
the “Mean Girls” actress in June accusing her of negligence. The busboy...
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 Britney Spears changed lawyers, but wasn’t able to alter her
mother-without-any-rights over her two sons status.
The pop singer has lost any visitation rights her two
children Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1 since her high profile meltdown
on January 3. Back then she refused to hand down her babies to one of...
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 One of the most high-profile divorces is returning into
court, giving food for thought and speculation for tabloid media, once more.
Paul McCartney and his soon-to-become former wife, Heather
Mills face off in court, the stake being an important slice of McCartney’s
fortune, estimated at about 825 million pounds ($1.6 billion)....
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 Whatever New Year’s resolutions Britney Spears set for 2008,
showing up in court is surely not on the list. And as a consequence, a new
matter to be resolved on the list of resolutions was added: finding new attorneys.
The lawyers that were representing the pop singer in the
custody battle with her ex-hubby Kevin Federline asked to...
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 Former American football superstar OJ Simpson returned to a Las Vegas
court Friday on armed robbery and kidnapping charges that could send
him to jail for life.
Prosecution witness Tom Riccio, who has been granted immunity for
testifying, told the hearing that Simpson led a group of men armed with
at least two guns into a hotel...
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 A California judge echoed an earlier arbitrator’s decision to award Jennifer Lopez $545,000 in a lawsuit against her first husband Ojani Noa.Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael C. Solner barred Noa from publishing a tell-all book about his marriage with Lopez.According to the lawsuit, Noa reportedly asked for $5 million from Lopez...
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 Although it’s been five years since the charges were brought against the R&B star, R. Kelly’s child pornography trial was postponed once more. A Chicago judge decided on Tuesday that the child pornography criminal case against Kelly which has been pending for five years will not be going to trial on September 17 after all. Since the...
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 Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston met in court last Friday to
settle for their 14-year-old daughter’s, Bobbi Kris, custody.
Since the two divorced last year, Whitney won soul custody
of her daughter and has refused to let Bobby see her since June.
"I have not seen or spoken to my daughter since early
June," Bobby said...
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 The chunky-textured, white substance found in rapper DMX’ home last week is still unidentified but drugs were ruled out, police said. "We're still looking at what type of powder that is," Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Tuesday. "But we did seize a useable quantity of marijuana. He does have a drug situation...
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 A raid of rapper DMX’ home on Friday ended with the removal of his 12 apparently neglected dogs and a number of guns.After being tipped that several animals were being mistreated at the Cave Creek, Arizona home of rapper DMX, deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said they first warned the rapper’s lawyers about the animals’...
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 From dancing to rapping and now acting, K-Fed sure gets around. Kevin Federline, Britney Spears’ ex-husband, was cast in a series of episodes of the upcoming season of CW’s "One Tree Hill," which will air in mid-season, no date has been set yet. According to Us Weekly, the rapper wannabe will appear in two episodes of the teen...
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 The pop singer’s lawyer, Laura Wasser, who was expected to help Britney in the custody battle with her ex husband, Kevin Federline, reportedly wants to drop the case. According to TMZ.com, Laura Wasser is about to resign as Britney’s attorney. Wasser, who has represented stars including Angelina Jolie and Nick Lachey, sealed the deal...
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 Another former member of Britney Spears entourage, Shannon Funk, her ex-assistant, was served with a court order to give evidence about Spears’ mothering skills in the custody battle started by Kevin Federline, the pop singer’s ex-hubby. The 21-year-old assistant, who was also spotted making out with Britney during a topless romp in a...
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 The estranged parents of troubled actress Lindsay Lohan, Dina and Michael Lohan, are reportedly close to resolving their longtime pending divorce. According to recent divorce, a judge has given the former couple and their two lawyers a deadline to decide who gets what in the divorce settlement due to wrap up by next Friday. "We're...
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 All jurors in Spector’s trial embarked for a field trip to the house and room where he allegedly shot actress Lana Clarkson to death four years ago. Attorneys from both sides, the trial judge, twelve jurors and six alternates, who so far sat through the ongoing trial, closely inspected the red-carpeted foyer in the music producer's...
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 A DNA test confirmed that comedian Chris Rock is not the father of a boy whose mother has publicly claimed Rock fathered her son. Rock and his wife of 11 years, have kept the comments to themselves for too long, since earlier this year when Kali Bowyer accused the comic of fathering her 13-year-old son, but now Rock released a statement...
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 The process of sentencing former "Prison Break" star, Lane Garrison, who pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving in a 2006 crash that killed a teenage passenger, is being delayed after a judge ordered the actor to undergo a 90-day psychological evaluation in a state prison to determine whether he’s a...
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