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• Ebadi rights group protests Iran mass execution

  - 2008-07-28

  TEHRAN AFP — The rights group run by Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Monday protested at the hanging by Iran of 29 criminals in a mass execution and said it doubted the convicts had been given a fair trial. "The Defenders of Human Rights Centre... is against capital...

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• Florida executes man for killing young boy

  - 2008-07-01

  WASHINGTON AFP — A man convicted for the 1991 rape and murder of an 11-year-old boy was put to death on Tuesday in Starke, Florida, state prison officials said. Mark Dean Schwab, 39, died from lethal injection a year after his execution was put on hold while the US...

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• Two Marines disciplined for puppy-toss video: military

  - 2008-06-12

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Two US Marines have been disciplined for their role in an Internet video that showed a puppy being thrown off a cliff by a soldier in Iraq, the military said in a statement Thursday. A press release from the US Marines Corps base in Hawaii...

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• French world medallist receives long suspension

  - 2008-05-29

  PARIS AFP — France's women's 1500 metres world championships bronze medallist Bouchra Ghezielle was handed a three-and-a-half-year suspension on Thursday by the French Athletics Federation for failing a dope test for banned blood-booster EPO. The 29-year-old, Moroccan-born runner received a heavier punishment than French cross country champion Khalid Zoubaa,...

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• Barry free to play on after Tait tackle

  - 2008-03-31

  LONDON AFP — De Wet Barry was cleared of a deliberate late tackle on Mathew Tait by an Rugby Football Union disciplinary panel here Monday, with officials deciding the Springbok centre's red-card against Newcastle last weekend was sufficient punishment in itself. Barry was sent-off during Harlequins's 15-9 English Premiership...

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• Benitez wants to see referees' chief after Mascherano red

  - 2008-03-25

  LIVERPOOL AFP — Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez wants to meet with Premier League referees boss Keith Hackett following the controversial sending-off of Javier Mascherano at Old Trafford. Mascherano was ordered off the field by Steve Bennett for showing dissent and Benitez, while accepting his player was wrong to argue...

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• Sarkozy suffers 'punishment vote' in French local polls: Socialists

  - 2008-03-16

  PARIS AFP — Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing party suffered losses in French local elections Sunday, poll projections showed, in what the opposition Socialists called a "punishment vote" for the reforming president. The vote, the first major test of Sarkozy's popularity since he defeated the Socialist Segelone Royal last May, was...

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• Sharia law 'unavoidable' in Britain: leader of Anglican church

  - 2008-02-07

  LONDON AFP — The head of the Anglican church said Thursday the adoption of parts of sharia law in Britain looked "unavoidable", calling for "constructive accommodation" over issues like resolving marriage disputes. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, told BBC radio that people should approach Islamic law with an...

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• Abbas calls on militants to halt Gaza rocket fire

  - 2008-01-26

  RAMALLAH, West Bank AFP — Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Saturday called on militants to stop firing rockets into Israel from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. In a speech from the presidential headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Abbas also accused Israel of imposing collective punishment on the...

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• Iran firing squad executes man who raped 17 children

  - 2008-01-26

  TEHRAN AFP — An Iranian firing squad on Saturday executed a man who raped 17 children, the Fars news agency reported, in a rare use of this method of capital punishment which is usually carried out by hanging. The man, identified as Reza Sharifi, was executed in the central...

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