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• Ex-ETA killer freed from jail on group's 40th anniversary

  - 2008-08-02

  ARANJUEZ, Spain AFP — A former ETA member guilty of 25 murders was released from a Spanish jail Saturday, as the armed Basque separatist group marked its 40 anniversary. Jose Ignacio de Juana Chaos served 20 years of an original 3,000 year sentence for the killings, which came in...

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• Spanish PM voices 'contempt' for ETA killer set for release

  - 2008-08-01

  MADRID AFP — Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero voiced "contempt" Friday for a convicted member of the Basque separatist group ETA who is to be released from prison, but said the "law must be respected." Jose Ignacio de Juana Chaos is to be freed from jail on...

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• Top supermodels expected at Sao Paulo Fashion Week

  - 2008-06-16

  SAO PAULO AFP — Supermodels Naomi Campbell and Gisele Bundchen are scheduled to headline Latin America's foremost fashion event, Sao Paulo Fashion Week, which sashays onto the runway this week. The British and Brazilian beauties are to put celebrity punch into the June 17-23 event, which has been growing...

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• Actress Thurman testifies in stalker trial

  - 2008-05-02

  NEW YORK AFP — Actress Uma Thurman has taken the stand in New York in the trial of a man accused of stalking her, recounting how he had sent threatening emails to her parents, the New York Post reported online. The "Kill Bill" and "Pulp Fiction" star told Manhattan...

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• Palestinian pilgrims stranded over Gaza return: police

  - 2007-12-29

  CAIRO AFP — More than 2,000 Palestinian pilgrims were stuck on boats off Egypt's Red Sea port of Nuweiba on Saturday after refusing to return to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip via Israel, an Egyptian police source said. "Some 2,250 Palestinian pilgrims are stranded on two ferryboats off Nuweiba" after...

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• Vietnam releases US couple accused of carrying handgun

  - 2007-12-11

  WASHINGTON AFP — Vietnam has released a US couple accused of carrying a handgun and bullets after being held at the Ho Chi Minh city's airport, the State Department and US lawmakers who pushed for their release said Tuesday. The Vietnamese-Americans, Le Van Phan and his wife Nguyen Thi...

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• New York Knicks coach Thomas settles harassment suit

  - 2007-12-10

  NEW YORK AFP — New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden reached a settlement on Monday in the sexual harassment case filed by former employee Anuche Browne Sanders. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but a jury had previously ruled that Browne Sanders should receive...

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• Online bullying a growing part of US teen Internet life

  - 2007-12-02

  SAN FRANCISCO AFP — US researchers warn that bullies are taking their hurtful ways from real-world schoolyards to the "cyber" world by targeting teens with nasty e-mail, text messaging, and online chat. The number of children ages 10 to 17 that say they were abused by "cyber bullies" climbed...

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• Disgraced Israel ex-president in sex plea bargain

  - 2007-10-30

  JERUSALEM AFP — Israel's Supreme Court was scheduled on Tuesday to hear a plea bargain between the state and disgraced ex-president Moshe Katsav over a string of sex offences that sparked national outrage. Under the bargain, Katsav has confessd to a series of offences, including harassment and indecent acts....

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• Britain to combat 'cyber-bullying' in schools

  - 2007-09-21

  LONDON AFP — Britain on Friday launched a campaign to help schools combat "cyber-bullying" of children and teachers using the Internet and mobile phones. The initiative -- backed by teaching unions -- came after research from the Department for Children, Schools and Families found that 34 percent of 12-...

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