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Badal assurance on issue of Punjabis in foreign jails The Hindu | 'Plan to take it up with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh' | 'Appeals to the Centre to ask embassies of various countries to identify such persons' | 'Over one lakh young persons who migrated illegally had landed up behind bars' | Chandigarh: A day after a study revealed that over 20,000 young person...
Man jailed for trying to extort Trezeguet The Guardian MILAN, March 12 (Reuters) - A man has been jailed for three years and four months for trying to extort money from Juventus and former France striker David Trezeguet. A Turin court also ordered Fabrizio Corona to pay 25,000 euros ($34,450) in damages to Trezeguet. Corona had taken photographs of Trez...
Sent to jail for throwing a single bottle The Guardian | Last year, during protests against the attack on Gaza, a mixed group of demonstrators clashed with police. But when the alleged culprits were arrested in dawn raids, nearly all those taken were young Muslims | Yahia Tebani, is awaiting sentencing. ...
Ex Edwards aide avoids jail again in sex tape flap The Guardian | MIKE BAKER | Associated Press Writer= PITTSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A former aide to John Edwards avoided jail again Friday in a dispute over a tape that allegedly shows the past presidential candidate and his lover in a sexual encounter. | Superior Cou...
Brazil leader blasted for stance on Cuba prisoners Denver Post | BRASILIA, Brazil—Brazil's president is coming under criticism for his deference to the Cuban government regarding the island's political prisoners and hunger strikes over h...
Lil Wayne sentenced to one year in jail National Post ReutersMarch 9, 2010 12:00 AM | After whirlwind goodbyes to fans, diminutive U.S. rapper Lil Wayne was sentenced to one year in jail yesterday after he pleaded guilty on a gu...
Left walks out of RS, plans 'jail bharo' stir The Times Of India NEW DELHI: The issue of price rise again echoed in the Upper House on Friday with the Opposition alleging that the government was not doing enough to put an end to the crisis. Further intensifying their agitation, the Left parties staged a walkout in...
Class supervisor at school of scandal jailed for having sex with pupil The Times | A classroom supervisor was jailed yesterday for having sex with a 15-year-old girl at a scandal-hit school where 16 members of staff have been investigated for relationships with pupils. | Christopher Reen, 32, who admitted six counts of sexual act...
Advisory panel urges authorities to avoid jailing burglars Gulf News | London : Burglars should not be jailed unless they cause damage or hurt someone when committing their crime, government advisers said yesterday. | The Sentencing Advisory Panel called for judges and magistrates not to hand down prison sentences to ...
Rove 'proud' of US waterboarding terror suspects BBC News | Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. | Karl Rove: 'Waterboarding kept world safe' | A senior adviser to former US President George W Bush has defended tough interrogation techniques, saying their use helped prevent terrorist attacks. | In a BBC interview, Karl Rove, who was known as "Bush's brain", said he "...
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Iraq war had Blair 'depressed' and wanting to quit The Himalayan | LONDON: Tony Blair was so depressed after the Iraq war that the then British premier told Gordon Brown he would quit the following summer, only to renege on his pledge, a newspaper reported today. | The physical and mental stress on Blair was so profound that he confided to friends he "spaced out" several times during his weekly session of parlia...
Castro 'regrets' death of jailed dissident CBC Cuba's President Raul Castro, left, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, centre, and former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, right, pose for a photo in Havana on Wednesday. (Ricardo Stuckert/Associated Press) | Cuban President Raul Castro issued an unprecedented statement of regret on Wednesday regarding the death of a jailed dissident after a l...