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Afghan officials say too early to judge election (AP)

September 20th, 2010

Workers dismantle posters of election candidates a day after parliamentary election in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)AP - Afghan authorities said Monday it was too early to judge the validity of the country’s parliamentary ballot despite observers’ reports of widespread fraud in the vote that was…

Saudi judge considers paralysis punishment (AP)

August 19th, 2010

FILE - In this July 30, 2010 file photo, Saudi King Abdullah speaks at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon.  Saudi Arabia enforces strict Islamic law and occasionally metes out punishments based on the ancient legal code of an eye-for-an-eye. However, King Abdullah has been trying to clamp down on extremist ideology. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)AP - A Saudi judge has asked several hospitals in the country whether they could damage a man’s spinal cord as punishment after he was convicted of attacking another man…

Report: Saudi judge considers paralysis punishment (AP)

August 19th, 2010

AP - Saudi media are reporting that a judge has asked several hospitals in the country whether they could damage a man’s spinal cord as punishment after he was convicted…

US military judge seals sentence for Gitmo inmate (AP)

August 9th, 2010

** CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME TO IGLESIAS ** Captain Dave Iglesias, spokesman for the military commission prosecuting Omar Khadr, speaks to reporters at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. Khadr, 23, is due to stand trial  for war crimes allegedly committed when he was 15 years old. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Colin Perkel)AP - A U.S. military judge on Monday ordered that a plea agreement capping the maximum sentence of an Osama bin Laden aide be sealed, shrouding in secrecy the first…

Alleged ‘Barefoot Bandit’ to face Bahamas judge (AP)

July 12th, 2010

Colton Harris-Moore arrives barefoot, handcuffed and shackled as he is escorted by police to Nassau, Bahamas, Sunday July 11, 2010.  Harris-Moore was arrested before dawn in northern Eleuthera island, according to police. Island police had been searching for the fugitive since he allegedly crash-landed a stolen plane a week ago on nearby Great Abaco Island, where he was blamed for a string of at least seven break-ins and has been running from U.S. law enforcement since escaping from a Washington state halfway house in 2008.  (AP Photo/Felipe Major)AP - A resourceful teenage fugitive who police have called the “Barefoot Bandit” was being questioned inside a Bahamian jail Monday as he spent his first full day behind bars…

UK names judge to lead inquiry into torture claims (AP)

July 6th, 2010

AP - Britain will hold a judge-led inquiry into allegations that its spies were complicit in the torture of terror suspects held by the U.S. and other allies.

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Man kills judge, clerk at Brussels courthouse (AP)

June 3rd, 2010

AP - A gunman entered a Brussels courtroom Thursday and killed a justice of the peace and a court clerk, then left the courthouse on foot, officials said.

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Mexico judge OKs producer’s arrest in Cancun death (AP)

May 31st, 2010

FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, Bruce Beresford-Redman, the former 'Survivor' producer pauses for a photo at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. A Mexican judge on Monday, May 31 issued an arrest warrant for Beresford-Redman, who is suspected in the killing of his wife while on vacation with their children at a Cancun resort, the state attorney general said. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)AP - A judge in Mexico issued an arrest warrant Monday for a former “Survivor” producer suspected in the killing of his wife while on vacation with their children at…

Peru judge paroles New York woman who aided rebels (AP)

May 25th, 2010

Lori Berenson, left, from New York, is escorted by police officers as she arrives for an audience at a courthouse in Lima, Tuesday, May 25, 2010. A Peruvian judge granted house arrest to Berenson after 15 years in prison for aiding leftist rebels. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)AP - A judge granted parole Tuesday to Lori Berenson, the 40-year-old New York activist who has spent 15 years in Peruvian prisons on a conviction of aiding leftist rebels.


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Chile judge frees Pakistani arrested at US Embassy (AP)

May 15th, 2010

Gabriel Carrion, defense lawyer of Pakistan's Mohammed Saif-ur-Rehman Khan, 28, unseen, speaks to reporters in Santiago, Friday, May 14, 2010. Carrion and Khan, attended a hearing after a court was to decide Friday whether to present formal charges or free Khan who was arrested Monday after traces of explosives were detected on his phone and papers while he was at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago because his US visa had been revoked. (AP Photo/ Roberto Candia)AP - A Pakistani man detained with suspicious chemical residues at the U.S. Embassy in Chile was charged with possessing explosives on Saturday, and then set free pending further investigation.


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