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News Ireland drops charges against Omagh bombing suspect
Ireland drops charges against Omagh bombing suspect
Kate Heneroty
June 29, 2005 10:16:00 am

The Irish Public Prosecution Service has dropped charges against Anthony Joseph Donegan, suspected of providing the car used in the Omagh car bombing in 1998. A spokesman for the PPS said Wednesday that the "test for prosecution...

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News Kuwait clears former Guantanamo prisoner
Kuwait clears former Guantanamo prisoner
Tom Henry
June 29, 2005 09:45:00 am

A Kuwait court Wednesday cleared Nasser al-Mutairi of committing an act of aggression against a foreign nation. Mutairi, the first Kuwait to be freed from Guantanamo Bay in January, had been charged with endangering Kuwait's foreign relations...

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News Saddam said to have turned down US death penalty deal
Saddam said to have turned down US death penalty deal
David Shucosky
June 29, 2005 09:41:00 am

Al-Quds al-Arabi , a London-based Arabic-language newspaper, reported Wednesday that Saddam Hussein turned down an offer from US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to take the death penalty off the table in his upcoming trial...

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News Over half of all Iraqi detainees being released after case reviews
Over half of all Iraqi detainees being released after case reviews
Kate Heneroty
June 29, 2005 09:37:00 am

The US-led Combined Review and Release Board created in August 2004 to expedite the screening process for detainees taken into custody in Iraq by US and Iraqi forces has so far approved the outright release of...

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News Europe rights group urges US to drop subpoenas against journalists
Europe rights group urges US to drop subpoenas against journalists
David Shucosky
June 29, 2005 09:33:00 am

The intergovernmental Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has urged US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to drop subpoenas against two journalists demanding that they name their sources to a grand jury investigating the leak of a...

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News Late Canadian PM’s son derides detentions without charge in court hearing
Late Canadian PM’s son derides detentions without charge in court hearing
Tom Henry
June 29, 2005 09:14:00 am

The son of late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau , the architect of Canada's civil rights charter, denounced the Canadian government's controversial use of security certificates to indefinitely detain uncharged terror suspects in a court hearing...

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News Saddam may sue over underwear photos
Saddam may sue over underwear photos
Kate Heneroty
June 29, 2005 09:08:00 am

Saddam Hussein's family has approached a leading London media lawyer about suing the Sun for publishing secretly-taken pictures of the former Iraqi leader in his underwear. Hussein's Iraqi lawyers also threatened to sue...

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News Ireland prepares to bring Britain before European human rights court
Ireland prepares to bring Britain before European human rights court
Kate Heneroty
June 29, 2005 08:31:00 am

Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said Tuesday he would begin discussions with Attorney General Rory Brady about bringing London before the European Court of Human Rights for failing to release files about car...

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News British lawmakers narrowly back national ID card plan
British lawmakers narrowly back national ID card plan
Tom Henry
June 29, 2005 08:23:00 am

The government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair won a key vote in Parliament late Tuesday on the proposed national ID card plan , but its 66-seat majority was cut in...

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News Israeli soldier gets stiff jail sentence for refusing to help Gaza clear-out
Israeli soldier gets stiff jail sentence for refusing to help Gaza clear-out
Tom Henry
June 29, 2005 08:01:00 am

US-born Israeli soldier Avi Bieber was sentenced to 56 days in jail Tuesday for refusing to participate in the evacuation of settlers from Gaza . Military officials said the stiff sentence is meant to send a message...

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