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The sultan of oil-rich Brunei announced that tough Islamic criminal punishments would be introduced Thursday, pushing ahead with plans that have sparked rare domestic...
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The Sultan of Brunei is expected to make an announcement on Wednesday on his plans to introduce tough Islamic criminal punishments that have been...
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Cuba and the European Union sat down at the negotiating table Tuesday aiming at deals on political dialogue and economic cooperation. The Americas’ only...
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Costa Rican authorities arrested 14 people, including five police officers, accused of creating a network trafficking Nicaraguan migrants, authorities said Saturday. During an operation...
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A top Spanish court on Friday ruled against extraditing a former policeman to Argentina, where a judge wants to try him for alleged torture...
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Brunei has postponed its implementation of tough Islamic criminal punishments that were due to begin Tuesday and have drawn condemnation from the UN’s human...
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A Chinese court on Friday sentenced four anti-corruption protestors to between two and three-and-a-half years in jail over their role in small-scale demonstrations, furthering...
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A Chinese court jailed a blogger for three years on Thursday, state media reported, the first person to be sentenced in a government-led crackdown...
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Gay rights groups in Turkey expressed alarm Tuesday at a government-led project to build prisons only for criminals who declare themselves gay, saying it...
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A growing black market economy in North Korea is increasingly allowing private citizens to engage in illicit activity that funnels hard currency to the...