Tsunami Hero Jailed for Theft in Australia
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SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian hailed as a hero for allegedly rescuing more than a dozen tsunami victims in Thailand was arrested Monday as he returned home by police who recognized him as a suspected burglar.
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SYDNEY, Australia Australian police say they&#39;ve arrested two men for importing three (m) million ecstasy tablets from Poland hidden in a bakery oven.
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The mayor and five other men on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn were sentenced to up to six years in prison for rapes and sex attacks dating back 40 years on the tiny, isolated home of the HMS Bounty mutineers, British authorities in New Zealand
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Australian conman Peter Foster has appeared in court on money laundering charges just one day after being deported from Vanuatu, where he spent three weeks in jail.
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A smuggler who is believed to have imported drugs with a street value of up to Â£350m, much of it hidden in garden furniture, was today jailed for 26 years.
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A Sri Lankan court convicted two men and sentenced them to death for killing a woman who survived the first waves of the 2004 tsunami but then was pushed back into the sea by the pair after they snatched her gold necklace, a police officer said Thursday.
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A suspect arrested in Indonesia&#39;s Australian embassy bombing claims Azahari Husin, the country&#39;s most wanted terrorist, escaped by bribing police.
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An Australian court ruled Wednesday that a convicted heroin dealer can claim a 220,000 Australian dollar (US$165 million; euro 129 million) tax deduction for money that was stolen during a drug deal.
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An Indonesian who set up a  militant Web site on behalf of the alleged mastermind of last  year's deadly bombings in Bali was jailed for eight years on  Tuesday.
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China sentenced a man to life in jail  on Thursday for running what state media called the country's  biggest ever pirate film disc smuggling ring.
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An Australian man whose international email scam stripped A$5 million ($5.48 million) from his victims has been jailed in a continuing global war against Nigerian internet frauds.
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A Pakistan-born architect accused of plotting a &quot;jihad&quot; or holy war bombing campaign in Australia was sentenced to 20 years in jail.
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A serial shoplifter who bought a luxury home with the proceeds of his crimes is jailed for three years.
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A court on the Indonesian resort island of Bali sentenced the brother of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay to ten months in jail on Thursday for drug possession.
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A health-care worker at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance has been sentenced to serve 16 months in prison for stealing the identity of a cancer patient, and subsequently running up credit card bills in his name.
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A third alleged member of Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger separatist rebels was arrested in Australia Tuesday and charged with supporting a terrorist organisation, police said.
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JAKARTA: A man has been pulled alive from the rubble in Indonesia&#39;s Banda Aceh city five days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami caused massive destruction, reports said Friday.