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Sears Tower plot leader gets 13-year prison term

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI (AP) - The ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices in hopes of sparking an anti-government insurrection...

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One killed in railway blast by left-wing rebels in India

One passenger was killed and 25 others injured when extreme left-wing guerrillas blew up Thursday a train in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, the Indo-Asian News Service reported Friday. The passenger train was blown up...

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British ambassador forced to apologise after Royal Navy ship 'used buoy painted colours of...

Spain has accused British naval forces of staging target practice with a buoy bearing the red and yellow colours of the country’s flag. The Spanish daily newspaper El Mundo reported the claims, quoting sources from the...

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Hardliner separatist in Indian-controlled Kashmir detained

The chairman of the hardline faction of the separatist Hurriyat Conference in India-controlled Kashmiri, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, has been detained by police to prevent him from addressing a rally on Friday at Pulwama district,...

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Illegal foreign exchange: man arrested

Thiruvananthapuram: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), on Thursday, arrested a person on the charge of illegally buying foreign currency from passengers alighting at the international airport here. The paramilitary...

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Iraq paramilitary leader gets death sentence

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Iraqi Court Sentences Sunni Leader to Death

An Iraqi court on Thursday sentenced the Sunni leader of a government-allied paramilitary group to death for murder and kidnapping in a case that highlighted tensions over the treatment of former insurgents who turned against...

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Grenade attack on Assam Rifles patrol van in Manipur, 3 injured

From correspondents in Manipur, India, 10:04 PM IST At least three people, including two paramilitary troopers, were injured in a grenade attack on an Assam Rifles security patrol van near a crowded marketplace in Manipur...

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Former hostages of Colombian paramilitary group suing former captors

Herald TribuneNov 19--Keith Stansell and two other men who were held hostage in Colombia for more than five years are suing FARC, the Colombian paramilitary group that held them. Stansell, of Manatee County, Marc Gonsalves and...

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Unjustly detained Colombian human rights activist to face trial, US Aid to Colombia key to ending...

The HillNov 19--All signs pointed to the release of Carmelo Agamez Berrio, a well known Colombian human rights activist, who has been unjustly detained for almost a year in Sucre. He had been appointed a new prosecutor and...

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