Vietnam Marks Independence with Pardons for Prisoners
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Vietnam has released nearly 9,000  prisoners, including 10 inmates whose cases it says had drawn  international attention, as part of traditional pardons granted  ahead of independence celebrations on September 2.
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo pardoned her ousted predecessor Thursday, paving the way for Joseph Estrada's release a month after he was sentenced to life in prison for corruption
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The Iraqi cabinet approved a draft law on Wednesday that will offer a general pardon to thousands of prisoners in U.S. military and Iraqi custody, a government spokesman said.
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Four men accused of planning to kill Cuba's Fidel Castro have been pardoned by Panama's president.
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Bangkok (VNA) - The Vietnamese Government has shown its determination in the fight against the illegal trade in wild animals and plants as well as its goodwill in the implementation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) by
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The Afghan transitional government on Wednesday celebrated the &quot;Martyrs Week&quot; by commemorating the late resistance leader Ahmad Shah Masoud and thousands of others who lost their
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Ghana celebrates its 50th year of independence this week, the first of many such anniversaries.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia on Thursday said itwould pardon 23 jailed rebels to encourage Marxist guerrillasto free 72 hostages, including three Americans.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad has received a request for a presidential pardon from the lawyers of six French aid workers jailed in December for trying to abduct 103 African children, the presidency said on Saturday.
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A celebration marking Paris' 60th anniversary of its liberation from Nazi Germany is planned next week. But nothing official was planned for a more somber anniversary Wednesday &#151; the liberation of a Jewish detention camp outside Paris that ended one of the most shameful episodes in modern French history.
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Panama&#39;s outgoing president on Thursday pardoned four Cuban exiles jailed for plotting to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro in 2000 and three or them flew straight to Miami, a haven of anti-Castro groups.
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Panama&#39;s outgoing president has pardoned four Cuban emigres convicted for their role in an assassination attempt on Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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Two senior pro-democracy leaders jailed in 1995 for distributing anti-government pamphlets were freed in military-ruled Myanmar on Sunday, part of the junta&#39;s latest release of more than 5,000 prisoners.
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PARIS -- President Nicolas Sarkozy of France disappointed thousands of prisoners yesterday by refusing to sanction a traditional Bastille Day pardon. Sarkozy's two predecessors, Jacques Chirac and Francois Mitterrand, regularly ordered the release of prisoners on the July 14 holiday, to help relieve prison crowding. But Sarkozy, who is considered a law and order hard-liner, said in an interview that ...
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BANGKOK, Dec. 13 -- A lingering legacy of the Vietnam War emerged from the jungles of Laos on Wednesday, as hundreds of members of the Hmong hill tribe minority surrendered to the communist government after decades on the run.
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South Korea has announced pardons for more than 430 convicted business leaders and politicians in a bid to boost the economy 10 years after the Asian financial crisis.
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With French and American flags, vintage military vehicles and heartfelt memories, Paris on Wednesday marked the 60th anniversary of its liberation from the occupying Nazis &#151; the day the French capital recovered its honor after four years of hardship and shame.