UN advisor sentenced on drug charge
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A Canadian U.N. official who advised the Afghan government on eradicating opium poppy crops was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for smuggling and drug possession.
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Former secretary sentenced to eight years over plot to sell secret formula.
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A man and a woman who implanted cocaine inside two Labradors are sentenced to a total of 17 years in prison.
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President Kim Un-yong of South Korea was sentenced to two years in jail by Seoul Appellate Court on Friday, reported South Korean national news agency Yonhap.
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A Rwandan doctor and one-time possible presidential candidate has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for his role in the country's 1994 genocide, human rights groups said Wednesday.
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InfoWorld - The leader of one of the oldest and most widely recognized Internet software piracy groups was sentenced Friday to 51 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
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The U.N. war crimes tribunal on Saturday ordered the immediate arrest and transfer of a former Croatian police commander to the Hague after he violated the terms of his provisional release by going on a hunting trip.
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South Korean businessman Tongsun Park, who was accused in the 1970s of trying to buy influence in Congress in the "Koreagate" scandal, was sentenced to five years in prison for accepting at least $2 million to work on Iraq's behalf to influence the U.N. oil-for-food program.
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The U.N. war crimes tribunal sentenced the former leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia, Milan Martic, to 35 years in jail for ordering atrocities committed when rebel Serbs set up a breakaway state in Croatia.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 22 -- South Korean businessman and influence peddler Tongsun Park was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for his role in the bribery scandal surrounding the United Nation's oil-for-food program for Iraq a decade ago.
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LONDON  - Two people were sentenced to prison Wednesday for plotting to smuggle nearly &#36;300,000 Cdn worth of cocaine that had been surgically implanted in the abdomens of two dogs.
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A former high-ranking official at Chinaâs top food and drug watchdog agency has been sentenced to death.
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A U.S. citizen was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison, the maximum sentence possible, for training with al Qaeda militants in Somalia in 2006.
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1 September 2004 - The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today sentenced the former prominent Bosnian Serb political leader Radoslav Brdjanin to 32 years in prison for torture, wilful killing and other crimes.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel yesterday sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment the captain of a Palestinian arms smuggling ship whose capture two years ago prompted Washington to shun Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Erez Military Court convicted Omar Akkawi, a Palestinian Transportation Ministry employee caught at the Karine A's helm by Israeli naval commandos in January 2002, of trafficking in weapons. Two other ...
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Sophisticated laboratories inside Afghanistan are now converting 90 percent of the country&#39;s opium into heroin and morphine before smuggling it around the world, the United Nations said.
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BEIJING -- China's former top drug regulator was sentenced to death Tuesday in an unusually harsh punishment for taking bribes to approve substandard medicines, including an antibiotic blamed for at least 10 deaths.